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Warned a specialist in the oil sector and the energy of the growing proportion of domestic consumption of fuel, which comes at the expense of the outside after the rise in export production capacity of refineries to Saudi Arabia 2.1 million barrels in January 1, 2011, up nearly 7% annually.The economic importance of the specialist counter growing domestic consumption made a strategic decision to establish a network of public transport within and outside the cities and then balance the fuel prices to the point of balance between income and consumption and help to encourage citizens to use transportation and avoid negative effects such as congestion and pollution.He told "Al-Riyadh" Member of the Association of Energy Economics International, Dr. Fahad Bin Juma: the Saudis in the fourth place in the world after America and China and Russia, where consume 2.8 million barrels a day, an annual increase of about 7%, raising the consumption in 2010 increased by 78% compared with 2000.He said I combined to Government support for fuel price cut the price in May 2006 by up to more than 30 percent and diesel by 32% to price ranges liter between 45 and 60 halalas while its price in the Kingdom of Bahrain 1.01 Real, Kuwait 0.85 halalas, Oman 1.16 riyals, and UAE 1.80 Real, and in Qatar 0.83 SR.He said I Gomaa said restructuring of fuel prices and raising prices is not a solution to the problem, useful to have participated in the study raise the prices of gasoline to 120 SR in 1997 to be close to the prices of the Gulf States where they were refused the study, because higher prices are not a solution because it is a pressure on the people with the low income which limits the social well-being and freedom of movement in the absence of public transport specifications commensurate with the level of living of the citizens.And has shown that raising prices to high levels will limit the jam the roads and environmental pollution and waste of economic fortunes, but must be accompanied by the provision of trains between the cities and metro within the city with a bus specification developed, stressing the need for a strategic decision to create a public transportation network within and outside the cities and then raise prices to the extent that balance between income and consumption and encourage citizens to use transportation and avoid negative effects such as congestion and pollution.
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