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NEW DELHI: The petrol price hike has had car owners fretting but environmentalists too have started raising their voice against what they call an ***indirect incentivisation*** of diesel. The move to make petrol more expensive will only push more people to go in for diesel vehicles, they claim. In the absence of a national policy on diesel, this could spell doom not just for the environment but also lead to a serious economic crisis for the government.

Centre for Science and Environment says that diesel might be a more efficient fuel but emissions from its burning are almost seven times higher than from petrol. “Clean diesel with 10ppm of sulphur is still not available in the country. There is no policy to either regulate diesel sale or tax diesel vehicles, which has seen the new diesel vehicle segment grow from just 4% in 2000 to 35% now and very soon could be half the total vehicle sales,” says Anumita Roychowdhury, director of CSE’s Right to Clean Air programme.