“excellent and convenient fuel for cooking and lighting.” Maybe once upon a time when the costs were a few cents or even a dollar a gallon maybe At 7,8,9,even 10 dollars a gallon they are not convenient or affordable in any way for the rural poor here. AND if not carefully monitored and used they are dangerous and unhealthy Michael N Trevor Marshall Islands
From: nari phaltan Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 5:23 PM To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves Subject: [Stoves] NY Times article on what fuel poor need. Hi stovers, A recent NYT article echoes what we have observed while working with rural poor in India - they need . Sometimes fossil fuels are the best. www.nariphaltan.org/kerosene.pdf Here is the NYT article; http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/04/opinion/the-poor-need-cheap-fossil-fuels.html?hp&rref=opinion Cheers. Anil Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) Tambmal, Phaltan-Lonand Road P.O.Box 44 Phaltan-415523, Maharashtra, India Ph:91-2166-222396/220945/222842 mailto:e-mail%[email protected] [email protected] http://www.nariphaltan.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Stoves mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/
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