Worst air polluters are vehicles

Worst air polluters are vehicles

JAKARTA (JP): Three million motorized vehicles contribute up
to 70 percent of air pollution in this city of 10 million people,
a government official has said.

Prawoto S. Danoemihardja, chief of the city's Environmental
Impact Management Agency, said over the weekend that almost all
the vehicles use leaded gasoline.

Two million of the vehicles are motorbikes and bajaj
(motorized pedicabs). The rest are private and public
transportation vehicles, Prawoto said.

According to figures released by the agency, their number has
grown by 10.1 percent over the past five years.

"Leaded fuel should be phased out and the less-precarious
Compressed Natural Gas, Liquefied Petroleum Gas and Liquefied
Natural Gas should be phased in," he said, reported Antara.

Prawoto said what worsens the vehicles' level of toxic fumes
are a lack of regular maintenance and a widespread use of fake
engine oil. (pan)