India Needs To Accelerate Move To ULSD, PM Filters

Diesel Fuel News, Sept 17, 2001

With skyrocketing growth in motor vehicle traffic and consequent air pollution growth every year, it's imperative to mandate clean-vehicle technologies such as ULSD/PM filters and CNG, according to an Indian Express editorial last week. "Unless Delhi moves rapidly to extremely clean fuels which go beyond Euro IV standards, like CNG or ULSD with particulate traps, there is no way that the people of Delhi or others metros like Pune, Kanpur or Hyderabad will ever get even 'somewhat cleaner air,'" Indian Express editorial writer Anil Agarwal wrote last week.

India is at least 9 years behind tough European vehicle emissions standards but cannot allow this situation to continue, he said. ULSD would only cost one to two rupees per liter more than conventional diesel fuel, he said.