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.

Most of the major corporations are state-owned:

• CEB - Ceylon Electricity Board.
• LECO - Lanka Electricity Corporation (partial state-owned).
• CEYPETCO - Ceylon Petroleum Corporation. *
• SLT - Sri Lanka Telecom.
• NWSDB - National Water Supply and Drainage Board.
• CO-OP - Sri Lanka Co-operative (think state owned Walgreens, but for the lower-income population).
• SLTB - Sri Lanka Transit Board (public transport).
• CRB - Ceylon Railway Board.
• Air Lanka/Sri Lankan Airlines - yup, state-owned flag-carrier.

Were they getting it for free from the government?

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.

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.

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.

Most of the major corporations are state-owned:

• CEB - Ceylon Electricity Board.
• LECO - Lanka Electricity Corporation (partial state-owned).
• CEYPETCO - Ceylon Petroleum Corporation. *
• SLT - Sri Lanka Telecom.
• NWSDB - National Water Supply and Drainage Board.
• CO-OP - Sri Lanka Co-operative (think state owned Walgreens, but for the lower-income population).
• SLTB - Sri Lanka Transit Board (public transport).
• CRB - Ceylon Railway Board.
• Air Lanka/Sri Lankan Airlines - yup, state-owned flag-carrier.

Were they getting it for free from the government?

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.

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.

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 these 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 1 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. 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:

• CEB - Ceylon Electricity Board.
• LECO - Lanka Electricity Corporation (partial state-owned).
• CEYPETCO - Ceylon Petroleum Corporation. *
• SLT - Sri Lanka Telecom.
• NWSDB - National Water Supply and Drainage Board.
• CO-OP - Sri Lanka Co-operative (think state owned Walgreens, but for the lower-income population).
• SLTB - Sri Lanka Transit Board (public transport).
• CRB - Ceylon Railway Board.
• Air Lanka/Sri Lankan Airlines - yup, state-owned flag-carrier.

Were they getting it for free from the government?

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.