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But overall consumption rose 3%, since Diesel rose by 8.5% and regular by 6.14%.

Consumption for August rose, leading critics to claim that the energy savings plan implemented by the government had failed. The plan’s administrator, Energy and Environment Minister Carlos Manuel Rodríguez, said that the results had to be analyzed more carefully and over a longer period of time in order to guage their effectiveness.

RECOPE’s Distribution and Marketing Manager, William Ulate, also said the statistics were misleading. “Every time there is a hike, people rush out to fill their tank. So they end up purchasing more than normal.”

The government has raised the possibility of implementing more severe measures like prohibiting the import of cars and creating wider restrictions for the circulation of vehicles in San José.

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