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Peru's First Public Transportation Bus Converted to Natural Gas

Enrique Richter Rodríguez, the General Manager of IRSAGAS, a company that specializes in the conversion of vehicles to run on natural gas, announced yesterday the first conversion of a public transport bus to run on natural gas.

He stated that this would undoubtedly revolutionize Peru’s transportation system and contribute to a better environment as well as save bus owners a considerable amount of money.

Peru’s Expreso daily reported that there are currently over twenty thousand natural gas vehicles in the country, which have saved motorists a total of eighty million soles, when comparing the purchase of natural gas to that of conventional fuel.

75 percent of the conversions in Peru have been financed by COFIGAS, a program established to help Peru’s people convert their vehicles to run on natural gas.

Motorists using natural gas vehicles are being supplied with the fuel by one of the sixteen natural gas stations in Lima and Callao, which sell a total of 200 thousand cubic meters of natural gas per day.

The government has fixed the prize of natural gas for the next five years, which can be increased by a maximum of five percent in the future.

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# jemrry pallani says :
16 June, 2009 [ 10:18 ]

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