Financial Tribune - Compressed natural gas consumption up until last week reached 24.4 million cubic meters per day, the deputy director of National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company said.

This shows a 30% increase compared to last year and is due to the lower price of CNG compared to gasoline, which has encouraged many car owners to convert their gasoline-powered vehicles to compressed natural gas hybrids.

�In the past four months 26,000 vehicles switched to CNG hybrids and we have plans to further increase the number,� ISNA quoted Hamid Qassemi as saying.