Luxury Cars Sacred Use of Subsidized Fuel

Jakarta - The government review ban on the use of Fuel disini(BBM) for government-subsidized private vehicles including luxury.

"We're serious direction. For private cars with a certain classification improper use of subsidized fuel," said Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Saleh Zahedy Darwin after Friday prayers at the Office of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Jalan Medan Merdeka Selatan, Jakarta, Friday (12/3/2010) .

According to Darwin, this is done to suppress the amount of fuel subsidies in the state budget and also to sharpen the subsidized fuel distribution systems so that the right target.

"It's starting to design, view, test, but the realization I do not know," he said.

Unfortunately, Darwin could not mention the specifications of personal cars that are not allowed to buy subsidized fuel. Because some types of luxury cars already use the fuel is not subsidized by the higher octane of subsidized fuel as the fuel required. If they use less fuel than that, the performance of the engine must be disrupted.

Related to fuel prices in the country, Darwin said that the government will attempt to subsidized fuel prices did not rise this year.

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China Beat U.S. as Biggest Market

China's monthly car sales have exceeded the monthly car sales in the U.S. for the first time in January. China getting closer to title as the largest automotive market in the world.

Thus data released the Government of China in Shanghai, Thursday (9 / 2).

In January 2008, a total of 735,000 cars sold in China, down 14.4 percent from 860,000 in January last year. Thus the data from the Association of Car Manufacturers.

Meanwhile, because beaten crisis, U.S. auto sales continue to decline. In January U.S. auto sales fell by 37 percent or only reached 656,976 units. This figure is the lowest in the last 26 years.

Coveted company

China has surpassed Japan in sales of cars with a car salesman in the world's number two in 2006. With the number of middle class grows and becomes a potential market, China is very important for car manufacturers like General Motors, Volkswagen, and Toyota. Them in the U.S. market continues to decline as a recession in all parts of the world.

Mike DiGiovanni, GM executive director for global market sales estimate for the year 2009 cars in China will reach 10.7 million units and in the U.S. only 9.57 million units.

Most automobile sales in China are made by General Motors, followed by Volkswagen AG. Automotive sales of locally made, Cherry, also rose rapidly. GM sold a car as many as 1.09 million units in China last year, up 6 percent from the year 2007. Trucks and buses are the most cars sold in China

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