Nagpur: What was previously promoted as a substitute for economical fuel and environmentally friendly for conventional car fuel, compressed natural gas has also begun to pinch the consumer pocket as the retail level soared to Rs 99.99 per kg.
The current level in the city may be the highest in this country, mostly caused by higher prices than diesel costs and transportation from Gujarat.
Sitesh Rawell, Director of Ransmatt, a CNG fuel filling station in the city, said that the CNG price in Nagpur was the highest in the state and linked this to the price changes in the international market, the increase in diesel prices, and a 62% increase.
In the price of natural gas by the central government in September.
At present, Ransmatt transported LNG from Dahej in Gujarat.
One LNG tanker fee of 17,500 liters around RS 17.50 lakh and Spurt recently in Diesel prices has significantly increases transportation costs.
Previously we used to pay 70,000 as a transportation cost to bring LNG from Gujarat to Nagpur.
Now, it costs around 1.7 lakh per trip, “said Sitesh Rawell, Director of Ransmatt, an official CNG refueling station in the city.
After transporting LNG, Rawmatt turned it to CNG and therefore pushed around 100 per kg.
Other factors to improve The price of CNG is that the government has stopped subsidies for LNG.
Until September, the price of CNG 70 per kg, and slowly the price has increased.
This means there is a 40% CNG price increase near only two months.
The difference between CNG prices in Nagpur and the city -Thone metroota is more than RS50.
In Mumbai, it is available at 49.40 per kg and in New Delhi at 43.40 per kg on Tuesday.
Liquid natural gas (LNG).
Prices have increased to $ 30 per MMBTU from Under $ 2 mmbtu at the beginning of the pandemic last year.
The international market level remains high possible because of the convergence of several factors, everything happens at the same time – blackouts of LNG factory, lower than the average storage in the EU rope, me Demand post covid upswing, and higher carbon prices, clearly.
According to Rawell, globally, the LNG price is at the highest this time.
High prices have even caused the import of LNG, which contributed half of Indian gas consumption.
The race to refill storage ahead of winter by large consumers such as China and Japan has also pushed prices, he said.
The city only has three CNG stations – on Automotive Square, Wadi and Khapri.
The price of CNG on the three stations is similar to everything that is run by the Randmatt group.
Now, at a price of Rs 99.99 per kg CNG, vehicle users, especially the autorickshaw driver, have started to feel pinches.
Most autorickshaw drivers say Spurt recently in CNG prices greatly affected their monthly budget.
The cost of LPG for vehicles is Rs 78.24 per kg, while the cost of one liter of gasoline is more than RS 115.
“One of the reasons we turned to CNG was the distance.
Against 22 km per liter of gasoline, CNG Vehicle gave around 40 km per kg.
So, Slowly the autorickshaw driver looked at cheaper fuel, “said the Autorickshaw driver to Ti.
The city has 23,663 gasoline-fueled autorickshaws, 753 diesel, 188 LPG, and 10 CNG-fueled autorickshaws within city limits.