Spain says it won’t order customers to restrict gasoline consumption

Spanish Minister for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Problem Teresa Ribera attends an emergency assembly to debate the vitality state of affairs in Europe amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in Brussels, Belgium February 28, 2022. REUTERS/Yves Heman

MADRID, July 21 (Reuters) – The Spanish authorities won’t order customers to restrict their gasoline consumption, Power Minister Teresa Ribera mentioned on Thursday.

“We won’t introduce in a legislation an obligation to set the temperature of properties’ thermostats,” she mentioned in an interview on native radio Cadena SER.

On Wednesday, the minister mentioned her authorities would oppose a European Union proposal to chop gasoline utilization because the nation doesn’t depend upon Russian gasoline after it has made efforts to spend money on gasoline storage and gasoline liquefaction infrastructure prior to now.

Reporting by Inti Landauro;
Modifying by Andrew Cawthorne

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