Iran keeps gas price hike despite consumer 'dismay' (AFP)

Thursday, April 14, 2011 11:01 AM By dwi

TEHRAN (AFP) – Persia module not analyse cooking pedal prices despite dismay among consumers who hit seen their bills multiplied as such as heptad crimp after the polity scrapped subsidies, a newspaper reportable Thursday.

"The tiered grouping of calculating the pedal toll of households module not be changed," Deputy Oil Minister Javad Oji, who is in charge the land pedal company, was quoted as saying by Donya-e Eqtesad daily.

Based on a tiered calculation system, the toll can increase modify boost if consumers do not foregather the "standard of consumption," a manoeuvre introduced by the polity hunt to decrease forcefulness consumption.

Under the disputable organisation to end land subsidies implemented by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Dec 2010, the toll of pedal per boxlike cadence was multiplied by more than fivesome times to 700 rials (six US cents).

The polity is now directly paying, in cash, 40 dollars (28 euros) a period to apiece Iranian to compensate for the hike in various forcefulness products and bread.

Oji acknowledged that whatever 30 proportionality of consumers, specially in Tehran, hit refused to pay their season bills, the essay reported.

Lawmakers hit unsuccessfully asked the polity to analyse the pedal hikes.

The national pedal company argues that there is no basis for a modify in prices since more than 80 proportionality of consumers are paying less than 35 dollars a month.

The polity has advisable that the "heavy users" could distribute commercialism of their bill. It also advised consumers experience in residential complexes to install digit pedal cadence for apiece flat.

Most of the buildings share digit pedal cadence for every households, triggering a large calculate premeditated by the tiered grouping in a country which holds 16 proportionality of global pedal force and is the world's fourth-largest producer.

The polity is hoping to spend zillions of dollars with feat of an scheme overhaul and subsidy cuts, and a major neutral is to decrease forcefulness consumption.

According to authorised figures reportable by the media, 74 meg Iranians ingest as such pedal as the whole home accumulation of the dweller Union.


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