The hot announcement by way of the Malaysian authorities to section out the importance of herbal fuel for cars by way of July 2025 has sparked reactions from Nigerians, given the Nigerian authorities’s ongoing push to advertise Compressed Herbal Fuel as an spare to petrol.
The Malaysian Shipping Minister, Anthony Loke, lately mentioned that the verdict was once made to prioritise the protection of street customers and the crowd, in keeping with Malaysia Stock.
Loke reportedly cited the prospective hazards posed by way of growing older CNG tanks nearing the tip in their cover utilization hour.
Talking at a press convention on Monday, Loke was once quoted as pronouncing, “These NGV tanks have a safe usage lifespan of approximately 15 years, and if they are not replaced, they become unsafe to use and may fail at any time.”
The phase-out will reportedly affect 44,383 lively NGV cars in Malaysia, together with taxis, personal cars, buses, and equipment, which form up 0.2% of the crowd’s registered motor cars.
The file added that the government-owned oil and fuel corporate, Petroliam Nasional Berhad, will halt the sale of CNG at its stations in phases from 1 July.
The minister was once additionally mentioned to have introduced a collection of support programmes for NGV-powered taxi drivers, dual-fuel car house owners, and house owners of purely NGV-powered cars.
By contrast, the Nigerian authorities, led by way of President Bola Tinubu, has been selling CNG cars as a more secure and less expensive spare to petrol.
In August 2023, Tinubu authorized the status quo of the Presidential Compressed Herbal Fuel initiative to leisure the affects of gas subsidy elimination on voters.
The initiative additionally introduced on Wednesday that it has transformed over 100,000 cars to CNG or bi-fuel configurations.
On the other hand, Nigerians have expressed issues over the protection of CNG cars following fresh explosions involving some transformed cars.
Many have additionally taken to social media to query the protection of adopting CNG cars, bringing up Malaysia’s determination to section them out.
Ini Ekott, tweeting on X.com as #iniekott, wrote on Thursday, “Meanwhile, Nigerian rulers are putting CNG forward as a safe alternative to petrol.
Note the clear-headed and tangible provisions made by the Malaysian government to help citizens with the transition.”
#Otunbakush1 wrote, “And here is Nigeria saying people should convert to CNG… Death Race.”
#PaschalNwosu5 commented, “Malaysia introduced CNG in the 1990s; now they are stopping it in 2024, while Bola and his supporters are asking Nigerians to change to CNG. APC is taking you 34 years backwards, but some of you’re defending it.”
#SmartAtuadi in a similar fashion wrote, “Yet, here in Nigeria, they want to decimate the population by their tacit promotion and coercive campaign for Nigerians to convert their vehicles to CNG.”
#Oserume1 commented, “If CNG was a good idea, Tinubu would have converted his official luxury Cadillac Escalade from petrol to CNG!”
#PastorGreatKing wrote, “Basically, President Tinubu is telling Nigerians to buy CNG as a way of diverting our attention from constant fuel price increases. When cars start blowing up like missiles, we all run back to fuel, but then it’s too late to argue/protest about fuel prices.”