The Kingdom's cars burn 800,000 barrels of oil per day

Written By سنان خلف on 2015/03/10

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">Arabiaweather.com- The latest studies issued by the &quot;Saudi Energy Efficiency Program&quot; show that the number of cars driving on the roads of the Kingdom reached 12 million vehicles this year, burning 811 thousand barrels of gasoline and diesel per day, which indicates the pumping of large quantities harmful gases into the atmosphere.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The study, which was recently published on the &quot;Al-Hayat&quot; website, indicates that the number of light cars reaches only 82% of the aforementioned number, while the rest of the categories vary between heavy and automatic vehicles, and the number of vehicles that are more than 20 years old is 2.2 million vehicles.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Amid continued population growth, according to the study, it is expected that the number of vehicles in the year 2030 will reach more than 26 million vehicles, and that the average daily consumption of gasoline and diesel will rise to about 1,860,000 barrels if practical measures are not taken to raise the efficiency of energy consumption and reduce the huge waste in energy consumption. fuel.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> It is noteworthy that the &quot;Energy Efficiency Program&quot; aims to raise the efficiency of consumption in vehicles by improving the rate of vehicle fuel economy in the Kingdom by about 4% annually, to move it from its current level of about 12 kilometers per liter of fuel to a level exceeding 19 kilometers per liter of fuel by 2025.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>See more:</strong></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong><a href="http://www.arabiaweather.com/content/التلوث-في-بكين-تضاعف-أعداد-المُشتكين">Pollution in Beijing.. the number of complainants has doubled</a></strong></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong><a href="http://www.arabiaweather.com/content/العاصمة-الصينية-الملوثة-تنوي-منع-استخدام-الفحم">Polluted Chinese capital intends to ban the use of coal</a></strong></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong><a href="http://www.arabiaweather.com/content/هذا-ما-يُخلفه-البعض-عند-زيارته-للمتنزاهات-والمواقع-الطبيعية">This is what some leave behind when visiting parks and natural sites</a></strong></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p>

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