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Article: Myanmar eyes physic nut oil as fuel to help solve oil crisis
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- January 18, 2006
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Myanmar eyes physic nut oil as fuel to help solve oil crisis
YANGON, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- The Myanmar industry authorities have
advocated using physic nut oil as fuel in the country, urging the
people to grow such nut plantations on a wide scale to help find a
way out of oil crisis.
At a meeting here on Tuesday, Minister of Industry-1 U Aung Thaung
highlighted the need for the country to use such biodiesel to avoid
spending millions of foreign exchange on fuel in the wake of rising
world crude oil prices, the New Light of Myanmar newspaper reported
Wednesday.
He said the use of biodiesel as an alternative fuel for petrol,
kerosene and diesel would enable rural people to avoid searching ...