Pasig uses LPG to power tricycles
Manila Standard thursday may 1, 2008
Gigi Muñoz David

PASIG City yesterday ordered 81 city-owned vehicles modified to run on either gasoline or cooking gas to save up to 40 percent on fuel and cut pollution.
Mayor Robert Eusebio also donated 10 tricycles running on liquefied petroleum gas, saying he was willing to extend financial assistance to the 10,000 registered tricycles in the city that would start using cooking gas.
The cost of modifying a tricycle engine to make it run on gasoline or cooking gas is estimated at P16,000.
“This is in line with our long-standing efforts to reduce carbon monoxide and other pollutants in the air,” Eusebio said.
“Local studies show that emission from tricycles is among the biggest sources of air pollution in the city. We aim to reverse the trend by introducing LPG as tricycle fuel.”
Racquel Naciongayo, head of the city’s Environment and Natural Resources Office, said vehicle engines that were modified to run on cooking gas saved up to 40 percent on fuel and produced less pollution.
Eusebio said he had given officials until the end of May to modify all city-owned vehicles to run on either gasoline or cooking gas.
“Those vehicles that have not yet been converted to LPG will not be issued gas slips,” he said.
i hope it will be duplicated around the country....CNG sana