New Delhi, June 13 -- The government has prohibited petrol pumps from selling auto fuel to bulk users and capped diesel sale to 200 litres per vehicle in a day to check state-run oil companies' revenue losses even as the international price of crude fell to below $86 a barrel on Friday. Invoking the Essential Commodities Act (ECA) on June 11, a government order forbade industrial and commercial customers from procuring petrol or diesel from retail outlets (ROs) and directed them to meet their fuel requirements from their own consumer pumps. Diesel sale is particularly rationed. "Retail Outlet dealers shall dispense HSD [high speed diesel or diesel] only in a vehicle tank, or PESO-approved containers, and not exceeding 200 litres in a day to a customer/vehicle and this HSD cannot be resold," the notification said. P10...