Scarcity Of Petroleum In Nepal Despite The Sky-high Rates

Monday, October 29, 2007

I don’t own a bike or any other transportation facility that needs gas. That doesn’t means that I am backing off and allow the government do whatever they want by increasing the price too high for petroleum, but there is also nothing I can do except read newspaper and watch television about it. What makes me wonder is even though the price has reached sky-high, the people still have not got the fuel and there is a long queue in every gas station. All of the gas station has a long queue of all kinds of vehicles that runs in the capital city, Kathmandu. I haven’t been outside the Kathmandu to see the same scenario but I am guessing that this is only happening in the capital as there are lots of vehicles these days.

I have a house to run and for that too I need petroleum in the form of kerosene and gas. The government has even raised the price for such general needs. Being a poor and developing country, Nepalese government should definitely not be irresponsible by increasing the price of the petroleum for the people who have ordinary and poor life. There are so many people living here who have their food cooked in the kerosene stoves. For them there is no other way than to go out in the woods and chop more trees for cooking their daily meals. This will allow more devastation and if the rate keeps on going of forest destruction, Nepal surely will have major crisis regarding environmental disaster. This is just one example I have and there are lots others as well which Nepalese government should take under serious consideration and should think before they act at least now when the country is in suffering so much of difficult situation.

Posted by Amrit Dangol at   6:54 AM        

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