Islamabad (AP) - it has become a familiar with web site in recent weeks throughout in Pakistan, LongChe and minibus wire winding down a few hundred yards of the driver, etc., to fill their tanks and natural gas.
Long queues of reason is involved in government and the Supreme Court, that led to a lot of master station shut down its gas supply pricing dispute.
The crisis is a kind of symptoms, is a bigger problem, doomed to cause in the future driver even greater pain: Pakistan to natural gas demand, and other forms of energy demand soon.
"We have this problem every year, it is more and more big, Khurram hussein said:" who has been in close natural gas crisis, Pakistan business reporter. "Natural gas consumption leader, now competition."
Former President pervez musharraf government nearly ten years ago began to promote the use of compressed natural gas, CNG, private cars. The idea is to reduce the money on trips to buy international oil, and rely on the government to Pakistan's domestic natural gas reserves.
Therefore, the previous government keep CNG low price of natural gas, and to promote the import car equipment operation, and quickly gives open station licence. Using CNG has an added benefit, because it will often reduce pollution than gasoline burn cleaner.
Unfortunately, the government's policy is very successful - is unsustainable. Pakistan has 3.5 million to run on CNG private cars, more than 80% of the vehicles in China than in any other country in the world. But Pakistan's natural gas supply can't support the demand, but also to the power plant, chemical fertilizer enterprises and other enterprises rely on fuel.
Therefore, officials are now facing the pain trying to reverse policy task, trying to weaning car gasoline redirected to other departments, they think it will be more efficient - power plant, such as limited natural gas supply. Pakistan has suffered from large area blackout, in part, in the summer, because the power plant do not have enough fuel to run.
And Pakistan limited supply will also run out. According to the oil minister ASHLEY's hussein, the country's two largest natural gas field, it is estimated that by 2022 dry operation. Officials are trying to attract international company in the field of development of the part, through the provision of better conditions than they did in the past when the government keep low natural gas prices.
Pakistan has been and neighboring Iran imported gas through the pipeline, iranians are building stood in their side of the talks. But the plan met from the United States, to keep the pressure on Iran, because the country's nuclear program against. Pakistan's lack of infrastructure, in order to increase the import of natural gas.
Pakistan's general energy consumption in the past 15 years grew by 80%, according to the Pakistan petroleum institute. One of the energy crisis is an important part of dealing with large low efficiency of the system, such as a large number of customers who don't pay their bills and a wide range of theft and low efficiency in the whole energy grid caused by the loss.
The recent crisis were springing up appear in the October gasoline and CNG station owner, essentially depends on the Supreme Court review pricing structure, make much money. National regulators, and then a sharp fall in the highest price CNG station owner can sell their products.
Therefore, at least 1800 countries in the 3395 CNG fueling station closed, because they cannot operation, Pakistan CNG association, Ghayas para chairman. And he said, the government has closed at least more than 800 due to various reasons, such as don't pay the bills.
It was a long line and depression began.
The school bus driver FEROZ ahmed said he in the southern port city of Karachi waiting for CNG line for 4 hours, every time he went to the pump. His minibus can also use gasoline, but it will be more expensive.
He said: "I can't afford gasoline, because the price is high, I will have to increase the pickup and stopping fee", from school children, he, he said.
In the recent price changes, CNG than gasoline cost about 30%. Before this, CNG more than cheap, but the government has managed to CNG price drop weaning closed its consumers through various means, including improving surcharge station owner.
Oil minister hussein said, "we are the world's largest gas producer, in 27, we are top CNG car. Therefore, whether this 26 countries is crazy or our policy is bad, and I think it's the latter," the Associated Press interviews. "We have wasted our gas, basically be so."
CNG station owner has established a across the country's infrastructure, and is back. Para check, CNG association chief says, if all the vehicles on the road started to use gas instead of natural gas, will be a huge pollution increase, this will be extremely expensive import all the fuel.
"It's influence on the economy in there will be a very, very bad," he said.
In most other countries use natural gas car has rich natural gas, Leslie cheung fu ancient burial, Eurasia group energy analysts say. Iran, for example, the use of natural gas is widely used in car parts, for its nuclear program to international sanctions beyond its export natural gas.
Other countries tend to use it more things, such as the team's bus or taxi, fu ancient weisman said. Then, they can use natural gas, this often than oil and coal combustion more clean, without having to build a complete CNG fueling station network, in all parts of the country have environmental benefits.
However, Pakistani driver use more expensive gasoline is political difficulties, especially in the election is coming soon.
Ask anyone in the line in Pakistan's biggest city who is the cause for the current crisis and the list is widely: in CNG station owner said to plane the customer, the government not to keep the price of inspection, and even the Supreme Court failed to find a suitable compromise.
Few people know that Pakistan's natural gas supply rapidly reduced the greater problem.
A government workers in Islamabad Nayaz Khatak, waiting for the filled his car, said: "I really don't know what is wrong gas supply." There's no such shortage. "




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