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just-auto.com: Petrol's Days of Dominance Numbered

28 November 2000

just-auto.com: Petrol's Days of Dominance Numbered

    LONDON, Nov. 28 http://www.just-auto.com - The days of the
dominance of petrol, as the world's ubiquitous global super-fuel, are
numbered.
    In a special report at
http://www.just-auto.com/features_detail.asp?art=350, Kate Ellerton of
just-auto.com argues that the rise in cost and recent restrictions on the
supply of petrol and diesel will add urgency to the search for a replacement
fuel.
    "There is a growing acknowledgement in North America and the European
Union that the west's developed economies are over-dependent on petrol," she
states.
    The Alternative Fuel Data Centre in the US has highlighted a group of
alternative fuels as front runners, and companies such as Mercedes Benz,
Daimler and Mazda are putting them to the test in research vehicles.  But any
replacement will have to be competitive on cost and have a distribution
infrastructure practical to the consumer.
    According to Ellerton:  "For a global alternative to be forthcoming,
political pressure must be such that the research vehicles become everyday
roadrunners and the petrol stations adapt to a new infrastructure ... Once
again it is up to the consumer to turn the thumbscrews on the powers that be."

    For the full story, click here:
http://www.just-auto.com/features_detail.asp?art=350

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