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CNG mandates causing more chaos in India

Diesel Fuel News, April 15, 2002

The India Supreme Court's refusal to allow anything but compressed natural gas (CNG) buses means growing chaos in Delhi as thousands of diesel buses are forced off the road, with not nearly enough CNG vehicles or fuel available to replace them. Meantime, some 20,000 diesel taxis in Mumbai face another CNG mandate starting May 31, according to reports last week from The Hindu and Deutsche Press-Agentur.

Clean-diesel could fix the problem of diesel particulates and "toxic" emissions at vastly lower cost than CNG, but India has yet to move to ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD) or Euro-3/4 vehicle emissions limits, thus triggering CNG mandate measures pushed by environmental group lawsuits.

COPYRIGHT 2002 Hart Energy Publishing, LP.
COPYRIGHT 2008 Gale, Cengage Learning

 

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