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10-10-2007, 02:00 PM
The National Energy Commission (CNE) handed in the next National Contingency Energy Plan to President Leonel Fernandez. The President will study the plan to see if it can be implemented. Readers will remember a Presidential decree of September 2005 that issued a long list of things that would have been done to reduce the nation's fuel consumption. According to Diario Libre, the new plan features a compensation fund to stabilize fuel prices, a plan to organize traffic patterns, the promotion of natural gas as an alternative to propane (LPG), a strengthening of the program for rational use of energy, the modernization of the public transportation fleet and an educational campaign. The Industrial and Commercial Association of Santiago (ACIS) approved the plan with some caveats. Luis Nunez, the ACIS president, expressed some fears that modifications to the Hydrocarbon Law, such as a reduction in the taxes levied on fuels, could spur an increase in consumption. In addition, changes in the nation's work schedules should be taken with caution, "in order not to interrupt daily routines."
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