The petrol and gas station owners association will file a lawsuit in the coming days against the Jordan Petroleum Refinery Company unless the company returns or replaces gas cylinders to distributors, reported the Jordan Times newspaper.
Since October, the refinery has seized 1,618 gas cylinders because they violate safety regulations, said the paper, citing an official at the association
But an official at the refinery said that the company will replace only 361 cylinders.
According to the association official, the overall cost of replacing the damaged gas cylinders is not more than $15,000.
"It is not a big price compared to what the [refinery] achieves annually in profits," he said.
The cylinders are either imported or locally manufactured.
Consumers pay $36 as a deposit on each gas cylinder, said the paper.
The cost to replace an empty cylinder with a full one is around $3 -- Albawaba.com
