By JAMES A. LOYOLA
February 15, 2011, 11:29pm
MANILA, Philippines – A majority of jeepneys is seen to shift to the use of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) upon the completion of a study on the economic viability, environmental soundness, health impact and social acceptability of a public jeepney that is powered by a Euro-3 rated LPG-fuelled engine from Japan.
This is according to Global Ambient Hi-Technology Systems Inc (GATES) Managing Director Cielo Fregil during the launch of the study dubbed as ‘Love the Air, Save the Planet’ at the Environmental Studies Institute of Miriam College (Miriam ESI).
The study will be conducted by the collaboration of GATES and Philippine Automative Depot Inc (PAD Inc), Miriam ESI, Citizens Organization Concerned with Advocating Philippine Environmental Sustainability (COCAP), Partnership for Clean Air (PCA) and Clean Air Initiatives Asia (CAI-Asia).
“We foresee that a huge portion of the market for diesel consumed by the public jeepney sector would shift to LPG as soon as we are done with the validation of the study because of its much needed and desired economic and environmental benefits that all sectors of society have been wanting for so long,” Fregil said adding that the same shift happened with most of the taxi fleets.
She said the gains would be derived from the big difference in the pump price of LPG and diesel, which is now pegged at P28.00 and P41.50 per liter, respectively.
Fregil said the estimated additional mileage of 6 to 7 kms/liter by an LPG engine as opposed to diesel’s 4 to 5 kms/liter will also mean an additional benefit.
COCAP and PCA president Rene D. Pineda, Jr. said that the bigger winner of the result of the study is the environment because LPG is expected to have better and more desirable emission than diesel, especially if the former is efficiently combusted by a brand-new, direct-injected engine.
“We, in the environmental movement, are so critical about emission standards and the flagrant violation thereof because of the worsening air pollution level that has already breached by more than 200 percent the ‘livable’ threshold,” Pineda stressed.
I feel sorry for those people that were deceived by Mr. Renato David Pineda with his flowery words coming from his mouth. This man is a big lie. The President of Concerned Citizens Against Pollution and Coordinator of the Civil Society Council on Sustainable Development what a sham, why don't you try to visit the place where this man live and ask what kind of citizen he is. We don't have any streetlight now in our subdivision for couple of months now, Meralco cut the service due to the mismanagement and incompetent of Mr. Renato Pineda who enjoy being suing people and causing undue stress to innocent people just for his personal gain. If Mr. Pineda is really an environmental advocate then why without any proper investigation why would he and his group ordered and send someone to cut trees in our area. What kind of environmentalist is that? My pity goes to the members of his organization whose sole purpose is to promote clean environment.
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