Customs seize fuel bowsers, tanks

Donald Fabri

Mar 27th 2010, 19:52

you want to go to Gozo on a weekend you'll see plenty british registered cars driving about.

Mary Mallia

Mar 26th 2010, 23:09

Well the cheeky lot i say.

Joesph Galea

Mar 26th 2010, 15:14

If i were in charge James Green i would check to see how long these so called outsiders or foreigners are staying in our country or if they own a property or renting a property for a long rent and then check if they are up to date with their papers car registration wise, cause yes most definitly most are getting away with it and we are not, so if anything thing is not as it should be according to our laws, then i would most definitly IMPOUND their vehicle until they pay up their dues to the ADT in MALTA and not outside our country, so traffic wardens please do your job and check them out especially the British number plates as they ARE MOSTLY IN THE MAJORITY.

abezzina

Mar 25th 2010, 20:05

This may only the tip of the iceberg. If the authorities would like to have some idea of the volume of contraband diesel coming into Malta they should (by using a graph) compare the curve of actual sales of diesel from Enemalta from 1995, with the curve of the projected estimate using the years of sales from 1995 to 2000 as a 'real' diesel demand. To diesel sales add kerosene abuse (before Nov 2004) and LHO abuse (from 2005). The difference between sales of Diesel, Kerosene and LHO put together will be well below projected diesel demand. The difference is a plausible amount of contraband diesel. Between 2006 and 2008 a conservative estimate of at least 30000 tons of diesel could have found its way here. That's a thousand bowser loads a year or the loss of €16million in revenue from uncollected excise tax and VAT. Environmental effects; NMVHC, benzene in the air, seepage into the ground. Prosit Customs officers. I believe there is much more to find. I was once told that some heavy vehicle owners had converted their well into a kerosene holding tank in the days when kerosene was under taxed. Search wells too.

Freddie Callejja

Mar 25th 2010, 19:50

Mr.M.Farrugia you have a point there, then again as you say they probably get away scot free from paying a fine, most likely too much trouble to trace them in Britian, but i reckon their days are numbered, unless some Brit. have a good excuse why we have to pay and they don't. (?)

M.J. Farrugia

Mar 25th 2010, 18:17

Who is a naughty boy then? well done to the customs and Excise now do something about impounded foreign reg. cars that drive about on the island for years on end/. expecially the once showing UK Number plates(the majority),.why should i pay while some get away with it scot free. i wonder what happens if one of these foreign cars happens to get a fine for parking how are they traced so they pay our local council for breaking parking or any traffic laws in Malta or in Gozo

C. Lia

Mar 25th 2010, 17:09

Well done Customs once more.

H Zammit

Mar 25th 2010, 16:50

To Dennis Zammit Diesel Fuel burns, it is just hard to get it burning. If diesel does not burn how does it operate an engine? Diesel is not flammable, it is combustible. The difference is the flash point. Diesel does not flash until 143 degrees Fahrenheit. Anything between 100 and 200 is combustible. Gasoline is flammable.

Dennis Zammit

Mar 25th 2010, 16:18

To H Zammit

Diesel is not flammable and is of no danger to anyone.

H Zammit

Mar 25th 2010, 16:15

Well done to the Customs Division. Imagine the danger the residents living close to the garages were in without knowing.