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  1. Join Date
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    Another gas station caught red-handed...

    Quote:
    DOE padlocks erring gas station
    By LENIE LECTURA
    TODAY Reporter

    The Department of Energy (DOE) Wednesday padlocked the unleaded gasoline pumps of UNO gas station in Mandaluyong for selling substandard petroleum products.
    UNO, which is a small oil player owned by a certain Irene Roque and has nine gasoline stations all over Metro Manila and nearby provinces, was asked to pay a fine of a total of P20,000 for violating the Oil Deregulation Act of 1998.
    In a surprised inspection Wednesday, the DOE found the UNO unleaded gasoline to have been blended or adulterated with either a kerosene or diesel making its quality “substandard.”
    The DOE also found out that UNO also violated the prescribed octane level of its unleaded gasoline products.
    Based on the series of on-the-spot tests, the unleaded gasoline of UNO was rated only at 86.4-percent octane level, way below the 93+ level displayed in its gas pumps.
    “This gasoline station has violated the law so we have to padlock its gasoline pumps. It is selling products below standard,” Energy Secretary Vincent Perez Jr. said.
    But UNO diesel pumps have passed the DOE tests including the calibration or the quantity of products being sold to its customers.
    The DOE also inspected a Caltex station on Alvarez Street in Sta. Mesa, Manila. The said station passed all the tests conducted by the DOE inspection team.
    The DOE has been actively conducting surprised inspection on gasoline stations to find out if they are complying with the provisions of the Clean Air Act and the Oil Deregulation Law.
    The DOE earlier padlocked the gasoline stations of Unioil and Total late last year for failure to comply with the octane level.
    A few days after though, the DOE lifted the suspension on the operation of the gasoline pumps of the Unioil and Total after they have complied with the prescribed levels of the DOE.
    The Independent Philippine Petroleum Companies Association (IPPCA) has criticized the hasty moves of the DOE to padlock gasoline stations which have been found to have violated the CAA requirements.
    IPPCA argued that they have the right to a due process and the equipment of the DOE being used on spot inspections are not “reliable” enough.
    The DOE, however, pointed out that these on-the-spot tests are being done to protect the welfare of the consumers who may be paying more for less or substandard products.

  2. Join Date
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    #2
    tsk tsk! :mad:

  3. Join Date
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    #3
    whew. akala ko UNO magazine

  4. Join Date
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    #4
    same here kala ko UNO mag..buti nalang

  5. Join Date
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    #5
    nice move by the DOE... at least our tax money is going into some good

  6. Join Date
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    #6
    UNO Fuel station along Shaw was the one that killed our Caltex-P. Sanchez station...there was a time when our diesel cost was already the SRP of their(UNO) diesel...$%^& pano ka naman makikipaglaban ng sabayan niyon!...natural walang magpapakargang PUJ's sa iyo dahil ang mga iyan(PUJ's) eh nagpapakarga kung saan mura kahit walang kalidad...di lang fine ang dapat sa mga iyan...dapat dyan e i ban at pagbawalang mag-operate...kawawa naman kasi yung mga honest gas station dealers at higit sa lahat yung final consumers...

    di lang maliit na gas stations ang nagbebenta ng adulterated fuel...naka experience na rin ako ng di magandang takbo ng makina after ko magpakarga sa Total-Kamagong / Cosmopolitan Avenue at sa Caltex-Julia Vargas (operated by a corporation named Citadel) (bad fuel thread)...maging mapili sa gas station na parpapakargahan mga peeps...put in mind na depende iyan sa nagpapatakbo at di sa brand ng fuel...

  7. Join Date
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    #7
    If you go with the big three... lesser ba ang chances for adulteration/miscalibration? Hindi pa ako nakapagpa-karga sa small players, except Total for the VW, which is actually big but not in the three.

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    #8
    yes. since the calibration of the pumps are done by a contractor certified by their mother company the dealers themselves do not have anything to do with pump calibration. as for adulteration, go for the big three gas stations. Their mother company usually do audit and inspection on gas stations.

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    among the big three, refuel in company operated ones...siguradong by the book iyan at galing sa depot ang mga fuel...tanong lang kayo sa pump attendant/gas boys kung company operated sila or dealer operated...

  10. Join Date
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    #10
    ang malungkot dito, 20k lang ang fine. they can easily earn it by returning this blend of gas into your fuel tank.

    dapat lakihan nila ang multa para naman madala mga operators nito at hindi na ulitin.

    you cannot always rely on attendants or gas boy for they will protect the business for their own personal interest(or they will look for another job)

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UNO Padlocked!!!