Diesel at doorstep?
By vanny
@vandana7 (98823)
India
October 1, 2017 1:06pm CST
Can it get crazier than that?
No building here is equipped to handle fire accidents.
The setbacks are violated by builders left and right.
So now like we can order Pizzas, we should be pleased that there is a proposal to supply petrol and diesel at doorstep.
The reason? They want to reduce cash usage.
If their brains are not working, let me help.
This would also make it so easy for terrorists to burn buildings. Smallest of neglect and buildings will going up in flames, with automobiles in ground floor adjacent buildings too.
My maid is uneducated. She can't even read vernacular. She may not understand the instructions!
Please..Indian government...stop it.
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11 responses
@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
1 Oct 17
I have never heard of such. I agree with you that is just to dangerous.
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@kobesbuddy (74554)
• East Tawas, Michigan
1 Oct 17
No matter how it's done, delivering gasoline is dangerous.
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@vandana7 (98823)
• India
1 Oct 17
I never came across this sort of thing in any country. Today when they were discussing this, my father who is a staunch supporter of this government finally stood against this. It is insane. Firemen have it tough out here as it is, with inadequate setbacks. People will die buildings don't have 10 feet gap...and we use butane for cooking. Every house has two cylinders.
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@kobesbuddy (74554)
• East Tawas, Michigan
1 Oct 17
@vandana7 It would be a very stupid thing to do.
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@ptrikha_2 (45467)
• India
2 Oct 17
@vandana7 yes we have better and saner solutions!
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@hora_fugit (5862)
• India
2 Oct 17
What is the direct relationship between doorstep delivery and reduced cash usage? Better to build card-operated petrol pumps.
You mentioned it's meant for poor. Am confused about terminology here. Do poor avail of online booking facilities... or own vehicles for that matter?
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@hora_fugit (5862)
• India
2 Oct 17
@vandana7 As I stated earlier, the definition of 'poor' has scaled up to higher degrees without me being aware! 
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@vandana7 (98823)
• India
2 Oct 17
@hora_fugit ..You are presuming the "poor" own their homes. They don't. And you are also presuming that the poor have nothing with them. They have few thousands. They circulate them at 5 percent per month interest. Are you aware of that? It means 60 percent interest per annum!
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@vandana7 (98823)
• India
2 Oct 17
The poor use more two wheelers, and they often see it as a way to earn additional buck at a premium when neighbors or bosses face some emergencies. It happened like that with kerosene a few decades ago. So they bought a lot of it on their ration cards, and when the rich needed it, they would become suppliers at exorbitant rates. Since the amount that the rich would need would be small, they would pay. By spending their monies in hoarding petrol and diesel, they could create artificial shortage which could bring about such deals once more. But correspondingly petrol and diesel are also highly inflammable.
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@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
1 Oct 17
I believe the powers that be are trying to cleanse the population by killing them in this way.
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@vandana7 (98823)
• India
2 Oct 17
@TiarasOceanView ..I feel they have weighed the costs...and considered how to get rid of half of the population...without laws.
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@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
2 Oct 17
@vandana7 You did? oh oh then I am not crazy and it is quite possible Vanny.
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@Daljinder (23231)
• Bangalore, India
1 Oct 17
This is bizarre! ALthough I think discontinuing cash usage will be good. Maybe now people will get education.
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@ptrikha_2 (45467)
• India
2 Oct 17
@vandana7 those making such buildings should be made to put down such fires failing which they should be issued non-bailable warrants.
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@Daljinder (23231)
• Bangalore, India
1 Oct 17
@vandana7 That's true! I don;t think here construction plans are thoroughly examined before even starting construction if at all. We just do any way we like as per needs rather than safety.
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@ptrikha_2 (45467)
• India
2 Oct 17
Unless some really greedy people at the top of the pyramid are beaten in public, things won't change and whether one delivers Diesel or Petrol at doorsteps or even delivers firehoses online, nothing will change.
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@ptrikha_2 (45467)
• India
2 Oct 17
@vandana7 people shrug off saying "main kyun is pachde mein padoon " (why for it get into all this? ) and many back out out of fear of harassment by Government authorities.
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@crossbones27 (48417)
• Mojave, California
3 Oct 17
Awe you know how bad you made your maid look. I know you think very highly of her or them. Like a human being , I know this but that was pretty mean. Unintentional, but people feed off that.
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@vandana7 (98823)
• India
3 Oct 17
Oh dear...but how else do I tell you that she has a bank account and the government gives her back some monies on cooking gas cylinder she buys at full rate. But not being educated, her son operates that bank account for her, and he takes it all being a drunkard, and she grumbles. Now with bank account being linked like that, he might resort to hoarding petrol, and she will get into soup because he stays with her. Meaning she will be held liable for anything illegal.
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@crossbones27 (48417)
• Mojave, California
3 Oct 17
@vandana7 Fair enough, point taken, we need to look out better for these people because that is what good people do.
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@DeborahDiane (40054)
• Laguna Woods, California
2 Oct 17
@vandana7 - That sounds terribly frustrating! I can understand why you would not like that!
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