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| Bolivia and Smart Gas |
Paralelamente al lanzamiento de los nuevos precios de los hidrocarburos, el Gobierno puso en marcha el Decreto Supremo Nº 27956 que pretende sustituir en breve el masivo uso de diesel y gasolina por Gas Natural Vehicular (GNV), abaratando costos, con una política promocional de incentivos y créditos. La Razon The Bolivian government is taking the initiative to switch Bolivian cars from gasoline- and diesel-based to natural gas fuel dependency. Eduardo (can I call you "Eddie"?) over at BarrioFlored stated the following:"Through a series of incentives and credits, the government is trying to encourage the switch to Natural Gas (something Bolivia has tons of, in contrast to diesel and gasoline). Natural Gas is also harder to contraband. It's nice to see Bolivia taking such a bold step towards self-sufficiency. Sadly, we will probably never see the day where Puerto Ricans begin replacing their gasoline with sugar cane substitute. (Our economy use to be primarily based on sugar cane and we import 190,000 bbl of oil a day.)
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Comments:
yeah, sadly that news is backpage kind of stuff. protests and blockades get bigger headlines.
-eddie Posted by: eduardo on Enero 6, 2005 01:34 PM
I brought up the idea to a Dominican friend.
"Wow... they do that over there?" he asks. "They have lots of cars that run on natural gas in the Dominican Republic. It really doesn't take so much gas and it's really economic." But I wonder... is it not dangerous when someone hits you head-on and bursts open your natural gas tank? While normal gasoline is flammable, natural gas is not only flammable but often compressed. Posted by: Luis on Enero 6, 2005 04:20 PM
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