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Article: Malaysian government urged to promote green energy
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- August 5, 2009
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Malaysian government urged to promote green energy
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- The Malaysian government should
promote the use of green energy in order to contribute positively to
sustain the environment, industry players said here on Wednesday.
Saw Choo Boon, Chairman of Shell Malaysia, a petrol company, said
that the Malaysian government should do away fuel subsidies as fuel
should not be a cheap commodity.
With the subsidies in place, fuel prices would be kept low, and
there was no incentives for the people to conserve fuel consumption,
Saw said at a roundtable talk which were attended by eight prominent
business figures here.
He said that when the government increased the petrol ...