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sirrom
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 Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 5:56 am Post subject: Fuel shortage grips Nepal |
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Fuel shortages are gripping Nepal, with motorists and taxi drivers forced to queue for hours to buy strictly rationed petrol.
The landlocked mountainous country relies on imports for its oil needs. Nepal is currently millions of dollars in debt to its suppliers.
For those who rely on petrol for their survival, day to day life is becoming tougher.
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IslandCrow
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| Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:40 am Post subject: Re: Fuel shortage grips Nepal |
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A few days of this and the air in Kathmandu should begin to start clearing up. Like Mexico city, Kathmandu is surrounded by hills that trap the pollution in. Back in the days of the Indian embargo, it took about three days of almost traffic free conditions for the car pollution to start to clear. This was replaced by wood smoke, as kerosene for cooking (coming from India) ran out.
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sirrom
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| Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:51 am Post subject: Re: Fuel shortage grips Nepal |
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i prefer the smell of wood smoke to the smell of car exhausts
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IslandCrow
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| Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:34 am Post subject: Re: Fuel shortage grips Nepal |
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| sirrom wrote: | | i prefer the smell of wood smoke to the smell of car exhausts |
So do I, but it is heart rending to know that it means that the poor are once more being squeezed.
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pstarr
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| Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:50 am Post subject: Re: Fuel shortage grips Nepal |
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In Nepal wood smoke is the smell of deforestation, erosion, siltation, and flooding. The only thing between us, overshoot, and dieoff is 84 million barrels per day. After that 6.5 billion humans had better have that backup planet all ready to go.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:24 pm Post subject: Re: Fuel shortage grips Nepal |
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| pstarr wrote: | | In Nepal wood smoke is the smell of deforestation, erosion, siltation, and flooding.... |
Strange how the end of cheap oil will lead to the greatest environmental catastrophe in human history. Anything that can be burned will be burned. How many environmentalists saw that one coming?  |
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BobWallace
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| Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 11:12 pm Post subject: Re: Fuel shortage grips Nepal |
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Nepal is going to be one of the 'canary' countries (my guess).
In addition to petroleum problems they are going to have major water problems as the glaciers and snow pack disappear.
As dry season surface water disappears more and more people are going to move to the urban centers thus putting more pressure on the already limited facilities there. And the aquifer (at least in the KTM area) is falling rapidly. |
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NTBKtrader
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| Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 11:31 pm Post subject: Re: Fuel shortage grips Nepal |
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| Nepal is in Africa right. |
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Zardoz
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| Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 12:42 am Post subject: Re: Fuel shortage grips Nepal |
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| pstarr wrote: | | ...The only thing between us, overshoot, and dieoff is 84 million barrels per day. After that 6.5 billion humans had better have that backup planet all ready to go. |
Now you've done it. I had pretty well pushed that into the far corners of my consciousness, and I hadn't thought about it in a while. I don't want to think about it. It'll take me a while to forget about it again.
We're going to strip the biosphere of everything that's flammable.
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IslandCrow
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| Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 12:46 am Post subject: Re: Fuel shortage grips Nepal |
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| NTBKtrader wrote: | | Nepal is in Africa right. |
It see itself as the yam trapped between the two rocks of China and India.
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NTBKtrader
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| Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 2:30 am Post subject: Re: Fuel shortage grips Nepal |
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| IslandCrow wrote: | | NTBKtrader wrote: | | Nepal is in Africa right. |
It see itself as the yam trapped between the two rocks of China and India. |
rock on! |
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