APCNGA Chairman Ghiyas Abdullah Paracha in a statement Tuesday sharing details of the plan sought uniform gas tariff for all sectors, ban on gas-powered generators and disconnecting gas supply to primitive captive power plants.
These steps, he said if already implemented could have saved 550 mmcfd natural gas while utilising half of the volume for power generation would have resulted in an output of 1100 Mega Watt.
Rest of the gas could have been channelled to CNG filling stations and industry in Punjab, he said.
The APCNGA Chairman said these proposals could also contain unemployment and help government raise additional revenue worth billions of rupees.
Ghiyas Paracha said that he had already suggested short-term measures like improving efficiency of machines, free of cost replacement of heaters and geysers to save 300 mmcfd gas to be supplied to efficient power plants.
APCNGA's long-term plan, he said was focussed to bring to an end the rampant theft, tapping new gas reserves, better utilisation and just distribution of existing hydrocarbon resources, and importing LNG through funds raised by rationalisation of gas tariff.
He said that CNG sector has been consuming only 6.1 per cent of the total gas output, that is 256 mmcfd gas.
Punjab's share to this comes to 129 mmcfd gas and suspending gas supply to its CNG outlets will save gas enough to generate 500 MW electricity against a shortfall of 7000 MW.
APCNGA Chief said that closure of CNG will hurt millions including domestic consumers as CNG sector has been providing subsidy to all other gas consuming sectors.
He claimed that four hundred thousand people directly related to the Rs 400 billion CNG industry and 3.5 million owners of converted vehicles would also suffer while petrol consumption will jump by 230 million litres per month putting extra strain of US dollars 230 million on forex reserves.
Such a decision, he said will also open floodgates of inflation, hike of 15 per cent in transportation costs for the man on the street, and health and environmental problems.