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Turn off your heaters and freeze to death
Temperatures in the capital territory were in single digits over the past weekend. Islamabad recorded 8°C while Murree dropped to zero. On the very same weekend, oblivious to the ground realities, Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Ltd. conveniently told its consumers through a newspaper ad that they should “never use gas heaters as they can be hazardous to health.”
Huh?
Pakistani roads are much more hazardous to health. Should we stop driving as well? What else do they expect us to use? Electricity? Which costs tons more and is virtually non-existent in some areas? May be they want us to cut down the remaining trees that somehow survived the onslaught of CDA and the Military, Inc (read FWO). Or, may be, they are helping control the population by freezing people to death. Or — this one sounds even better –, they are US agents trying to “control” the “extremists” hiding in the northern areas.
In fact, SNPGL provided no alternative. Not even a lame one. Like El Presidente’s suggestion to use vegetables instead of pricy tomatoes (sorry, just couldn’t let it go).
How about starting from “the palaces”, dudes? The Prime Minister’s Secretariat and the two Presidencies, you know. I am sure we can heat a few dozen villages by controlling just these.
The government should stop authorizing more CNG stations (there are around 8 CNG stations within less than a kilometer on Malakand Road just outside Mardan!) and start moving their asses on alternative energy sources (I mean “start working faster on alternative energy resources”, but you get the point). Otherwise, we will soon have a huge number of gas stations but no gas to compress, except our own.
Here is the ad for your reading pleasure:
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the only thing wrong with the ad is the request to stop using gas heaters. 99% gas consumers uses gas heaters to heat their houses in winter. what alternative they are suggesting and are these alternatives more econonmical. where are references and research results for saying that they are hazardours to health (although they might be).
What regulations Pakistan Government has imposed on GAS Appliance Industry regarding Safety features. e.g. (in case of low pressures).
Although I too request Gas Consumers to switch off gas appliances when they are not home or while asleep because of low pressure risk…
But there is simply no easy alternative available for warming up houses during winter.