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The recent pronouncement by the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) at a workshop in Lagos that ethanol fuel is good and reliable for firing of automobile engines in Nigeria, may have finally laid to rest controversies over its application as fuel in the country.

Controversies had emanated after a petition by the Consumers Protection Council (CPC) was received by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) over complaints by motorists that fuel purchased from some filling stations had damaged carburettors of their cars.

The contaminated fuel was later discovered by the DPR in the storage tanks of some of the leading petroleum marketing companies, not before, which means that contamination happened onshore. In response, stakeholders have been blaming international oil traders importing petroleum products for the major marketers and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for bringing ethanol into the country.

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General Motors Corp.’s leading proponent of hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles will challenge the energy industry and governments to commit to developing a public hydrogen fueling infrastructure when he addresses the National Hydrogen Association’s annual conference in Sacramento, Calif., today.

In his keynote address to the conference aimed at ramping up commercialization of hydrogen, GM Vice President of Research & Development and Strategic Planning Larry Burns is expected to urge cooperation from government and the energy industry and to outline GM’s proposed plan for establishing hydrogen fueling stations first in small numbers in and around a few major cities and over time connecting cities to one another along main arteries.

“The automobile industry has reached a critical juncture in our journey to realize the full potential of hydrogen fuel cell-electric vehicles,” Burns is expected to say as part of his prepared remarks. “We have now reached a point where the energy industry and governments must pick up their pace so we can continue to advance in a timely manner.”

Urban areas that could be first to establish hydrogen fueling infrastructures include Berlin, Shanghai and Los Angeles, Burns says.
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