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Article: Indonesian fuel consumption up by 15 percent
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- February 28, 2005
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Indonesian fuel consumption up by 15 percent
JAKARTA, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia's state oil and gas company
Pertamina announced over the weekend that fuel consumption had
increased by 15 percent over the past two months from the same period
last year.
The company said fuel consumption through February stood at 189,
700 kiloliters per day, up from 165,100 kiloliter per day in the same
two-month period in 2004.
The increase is believed to be linked to the government's plan to
increase fuel prices by an average of 29 percent next month.
"The increase is not a usual phenomenon. Usually, fuel consumption