Small oil marketing companies are agonizing over the additional investments they will have to make to sustain stocks at their petrol stations

FUEL TANKERS PARKED AT NAKURU KPC DEPOT

The imposition of Value Added Tax (VAT) on petroleum products has meant that independent dealers pay an extra Sh14 for a litre of super petrol due to their non-affiliation to big petroleum brands.

Depending on the capacity of the tanks at their outlets, this has translated into hundreds of thousands and even millions of shillings.