Is it illegal to buy private oil?

Buying illegal oil does not mean selling illegal oil. First of all, it must be clear that it is not illegal to buy gutter oil, and it is illegal to sell gutter oil. Because refined oil products, such as gasoline and diesel oil, are dangerous chemicals, it is illegal to pass safety assessment and fire inspection if your storage conditions fail to meet safety standards, such as setting up oil tanks without permission. Under any of the following circumstances, it will be punished by law: (1) causing fire, explosion and personal injury accidents. (2) Operating without a license; Without obtaining the industrial and commercial license, the wholesale or retail business license of refined oil, or exceeding the limit, the industry and commerce will generally confiscate it, confiscate the sales tools and inventory, and impose a fine. (3) illegal income, if it is operated for a long time, adds up to an astronomical figure; Wait a minute. Selling gasoline without permission may involve the crime of illegal business operation, which violates relevant laws and regulations. Next, I'll add some relevant legal knowledge to you. People who buy illicit oil are not illegal, but sellers may constitute the crime of illegal business operation. "Measures for the Administration of Refined Oil Market" Article 43 Where a refined oil trading enterprise commits one of the following acts, if there are specific provisions in laws and regulations, those provisions shall prevail; Where there are no provisions in laws and regulations, the competent commercial department of the local people's government at or above the county level shall give a warning according to the circumstances, order it to suspend business for rectification, and impose a fine of less than 3 times the illegal income or less than 30,000 yuan: (1) Altering, reselling, leasing, lending or illegally transferring the approval certificate of refined oil business in other forms; (two) special users of refined oil products, in violation of regulations, sell special oil products outside the system without authorization; (three) in violation of the conditions and procedures stipulated in these measures, unauthorized construction, relocation and expansion of gas stations or oil depots; (4) Selling refined oil by passing off fake products as genuine products, passing off substandard products as qualified products, or selling refined oil that has been explicitly eliminated or banned by the state; (5) selling smuggled refined oil; (six) unauthorized changes to the tanker or other ways to deduct the amount of oil; (seven) refined oil wholesale enterprises sell refined oil for business purposes to enterprises that do not have the qualification for refined oil business; (eight) refined oil retail enterprises to purchase refined oil from enterprises without the qualification of refined oil wholesale business; (nine) engaged in business activities beyond the scope of business; (ten) in violation of the requirements of relevant technical specifications; (eleven) other illegal acts as prescribed by laws, regulations and rules.

Legal basis: Article 225 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), in violation of state regulations, commits one of the following illegal business operations, disrupting market order, and if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and shall also, or shall only, be fined not less than one time but not more than five times the illegal income; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years, and shall also be fined not less than one time but not more than five times his illegal income or his property shall be confiscated: (1) dealing in franchise, monopoly goods or other commodities whose business is restricted by laws and administrative regulations without permission; (2) buying and selling import and export licenses, import and export certificates of origin and other business licenses or approval documents stipulated by laws and administrative regulations; (three) without the approval of the relevant competent departments of the state, illegally engaged in securities, futures, insurance business, or illegally engaged in fund payment and settlement business; (four) other illegal business activities that seriously disrupt the market order.