We had gone through water scarcity and Chennai was infamous for it
once but I never remember we went through dryness of petrol bunks, where almost
bunks in the city were out of stock for the last 6 days. The shortage of petrol
and diesel had also spread to suburbs… where filling a bottle of petrol takes
maximum an hour waiting on the queue… that too only after sought through lot of
petrol bunks out of stock.
During the time of protest against the hike on petrol in India… the scarcity of petrol and diesel has brought into the light, the obvious truth that living without it has been tough even though the price of petrol has been on constant rise. I wanna think the scarcity of petrol and diesel in Chennai is supposed to divert people from the hike on petrol by the petroleum companies or government. But till late night the situation was much favor to the petroleum companies since lack on gasoline, people had come down to buy no matter how much it cost!
During the time of protest against the hike on petrol in India… the scarcity of petrol and diesel has brought into the light, the obvious truth that living without it has been tough even though the price of petrol has been on constant rise. I wanna think the scarcity of petrol and diesel in Chennai is supposed to divert people from the hike on petrol by the petroleum companies or government. But till late night the situation was much favor to the petroleum companies since lack on gasoline, people had come down to buy no matter how much it cost!
I couldn’t stop thinking or thanking the petrol companies to come out
of stock to make us realize the worth and important of gasoline… even though I
agree and feel truly that running out of petrol causes lot of trouble. But it was
interesting to read few columns on newspaper about how the petrol scarcity
forced people to take few steps aback as saving petrol, for ex. those vroom on
traffic signals have come down to switch off their engines or become patient
till green signal falls!
See how much we could save in petrol and diesel, if we follow such
methods through all our rides as much possible and rolling down the windows and
switching off the A/Cs while free from pollution and heat could rejoice plenty
of liters of petrol and diesel. A sustain on speed and driving at minimum speed
control would save lot of petrol and also gives maximum comfort and guarantee
to life… which is precious and has a lot
to achieve, love and sharing and celebrating many special occasions of this
beautiful life.
Love you all!
i think the entire world has become so dependent on gasoline for fuel that we would be in dire straits if that was cut off - temporarily or for good.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry to hear about your petrol shortage, and I hope it is very temporary and short-lived. If more drivers would follow your suggestions, we could save a great deal of fuel and help the environment as well.
ReplyDeleteA good sign of awareness can be seen very well among the people after such miss happening... scarcity of petrol.
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear about your petrol shortage. You have a very nice blog and I love your header photo.
ReplyDeleteWish everyone had this awareness!
ReplyDeleteThat is so sad. I hope it wont take long and it will be back to normal. I agree with your idea. It helps a lot to save petrol.
ReplyDeleteI can't help wishing we would get rid of petrol-driven cars and go over to electric ones.
ReplyDeleteHi, Sorry to hear about the gasoline shortage in your country. We don't have a shortage 'yet' --but we are paying alot more money for it these days...
ReplyDeleteYou are right! There are things people could do to help such as driving slower. We have a hybrid car --so we get good gas mileage. We also drive slower than most people around here.
Good Luck with your situation.
Betsy
Thought provoking post Jeevan...
ReplyDeleteand this is the high time to look for such steps seriously....
I have heard of petrol scarcity in Chennai.
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