No gas to cook your food? Burn wood. Or eat food that doesn't require cooking.
This is hilarious. I love how the elites kept complaining about fossil fuels. Then once they cut off the gas supply, people in our country (mostly rural areas, can't find nor burn wood in the cities) started burning wood.
More CO2 emissions FTW.
No fertilizer? Get some chickens on your farm.
All the wise old men were called "old relics" when fertilizer came around.
Now they're dead, and we don't have fertilizer.
If our morons had listened they had generations of wisdom to get us out of any rut.
No money for gas? Ride a bike or walk.
ROFL.
My extended family and I are probably the only people in the country that just walk (walking is called "exercise"), people are so used to transport that they take a bus for walking distance.
I can walk 12 kilks without overexerting myself. The moment someone else tries they dry-heave and crumple at the first klik.
It's sad actually.
The key is all the gas sitting off shore waiting for the government to buy it. What's that all about?
Gee. Take a wild guess who gets a commission on the late payment surcharge? (no sarcasm directed at you, just for comedic effect).
End consumers should be the ones buying gasoline.
I mean we do, but we don't produce our own, so someone has to buy it for us to bring it here.
That's what the government does here with CEYPETCO. The other supplier is IOC Lanka, or Indian Oil Lanka. The only problem no one is wild over IOC is because they price-gouge.
We used to be heavily socialist (I use that term loosely, socialism here is more or less social-welfare with populism and state-managed economies. It's weird actually, I don't even understand.), and it surprisingly worked out well for us till the war screwed us over.
I don't admit to be an expert on supply chain delivery of gas. But I don't think the US government buys gasoline from tankers to resell it to companies and individuals inland.
The article says the gas isn't being delivered for consumption by the people because the government of Sri Lanka doesn't have money to pay for it. The government shouldn't have any part in the supply chain.
So then I looked up Sri Lanka's government and apparently communists hold a majority of seats, at least in recent history.
I don't admit to be an expert on supply chain delivery of gas. But I don't think the US government buys gasoline from tankers to resell it to companies and individuals inland.
That's comparing apples and oranges. The US is a better market than we ever were. Besides we don't produce our own gas, so we have to get it from somewhere else.
The article says the gas isn't being delivered for consumption by the people because the government of Sri Lanka doesn't have money to pay for it. The government shouldn't have any part in the supply chain.
In a perfect world, it shouldn't. I'm a proponent of minarchism, so I can understand the argument. But the fact is that the government does, mostly because the only actual distributor of gas is Ceypetco that is state-owned. Ceypetco was supposed to be a solution to OPEC in the country, so naturally it became a monopoly.
Our country has pretty tight regulations on anything that comes in or goes out (unless you're an apparatchik or on the politburo, in which case go right ahead). And in the end it works very well for the people fleecing the country.
So then I looked up Sri Lanka's government and apparently communists hold a majority of seats, at least in recent history.
If you mean SLPP, yes; on paper they claim to be leftie. In practice they're corporationists.
There's only a handful of socialist parties in the country, the only one represented in parliament is the JVP, and even that is just 3 seats.
Sri Lanka is a little odd in that it's understanding of communism/socialism is (wierdly) different from what other countries consider communism/socialism. I can't explain it.
Perhaps this is because the only party with some clout is the JVP which started out in response to the elite of the country taking advantage of the lower class (think giving incompetent graduates jobs because they're from Ivy League schools over extremely competent graduates from the village *school"). There's a huge layer of classism that exists in the country even today.
All in all, sorry if it looked like I was lashing out at you. I also tend to go off track a lot. So apologies for that.
This is hilarious. I love how the elites kept complaining about fossil fuels. Then once they cut off the gas supply, people in our country (mostly rural areas, can't find nor burn wood in the cities) started burning wood.
More CO2 emissions FTW.
All the wise old men were called "old relics" when fertilizer came around.
Now they're dead, and we don't have fertilizer.
If our morons had listened they had generations of wisdom to get us out of any rut.
ROFL.
My extended family and I are probably the only people in the country that just walk (walking is called "exercise"), people are so used to transport that they take a bus for walking distance.
I can walk 12 kilks without overexerting myself. The moment someone else tries they dry-heave and crumple at the first klik.
It's sad actually.
Gee. Take a wild guess who gets a commission on the late payment surcharge? (no sarcasm directed at you, just for comedic effect).
I mean we do, but we don't produce our own, so someone has to buy it for us to bring it here.
That's what the government does here with CEYPETCO. The other supplier is IOC Lanka, or Indian Oil Lanka. The only problem no one is wild over IOC is because they price-gouge.
We used to be heavily socialist (I use that term loosely, socialism here is more or less social-welfare with populism and state-managed economies. It's weird actually, I don't even understand.), and it surprisingly worked out well for us till the war screwed us over.
Most of the major corporations are state-owned:
Are you assuming we don't pay for gas? Someone has to bring it to the island before we can pay for it.
All of these work on taxes, and the payment we give for their services.
How does it work? F**ed if I know.
Did it work before: yes.
What changed: think "Idiocracy". The govt thinks plants can grow with Brawndo.
I don't admit to be an expert on supply chain delivery of gas. But I don't think the US government buys gasoline from tankers to resell it to companies and individuals inland.
The article says the gas isn't being delivered for consumption by the people because the government of Sri Lanka doesn't have money to pay for it. The government shouldn't have any part in the supply chain.
So then I looked up Sri Lanka's government and apparently communists hold a majority of seats, at least in recent history.
That's comparing apples and oranges. The US is a better market than we ever were. Besides we don't produce our own gas, so we have to get it from somewhere else.
In a perfect world, it shouldn't. I'm a proponent of minarchism, so I can understand the argument. But the fact is that the government does, mostly because the only actual distributor of gas is Ceypetco that is state-owned. Ceypetco was supposed to be a solution to OPEC in the country, so naturally it became a monopoly.
Our country has pretty tight regulations on anything that comes in or goes out (unless you're an apparatchik or on the politburo, in which case go right ahead). And in the end it works very well for the people fleecing the country.
If you mean SLPP, yes; on paper they claim to be leftie. In practice they're corporationists.
There's only a handful of socialist parties in the country, the only one represented in parliament is the JVP, and even that is just 3 seats.
Sri Lanka is a little odd in that it's understanding of communism/socialism is (wierdly) different from what other countries consider communism/socialism. I can't explain it.
Perhaps this is because the only party with some clout is the JVP which started out in response to the elite of the country taking advantage of the lower class (think giving incompetent graduates jobs because they're from Ivy League schools over extremely competent graduates from the village *school"). There's a huge layer of classism that exists in the country even today.
All in all, sorry if it looked like I was lashing out at you. I also tend to go off track a lot. So apologies for that.