We may have to use coal instead of gas- Our finance minister says, IMF

@aninditasen coal smoke is harmful to everyone. But I can’t use it anyway. I have a gas furnace.

@RubyHawk What's a gas furnace? I have nothing but a gas stove that runs on liquid petroleum/ cooking gas.

I use gas too and can't use coal if I have to as that would affect my lungs which is not good for me.

They are misusing all Indias natural resources and laundering all money earned from taxes.

@Nakitakona The politicians of today's world are all greedy and therefore launder money earned from taxes.

@aninditasen Sounds familiar for it's being practiced here by our government officials.

She is staying in a paradise where she will be happy temporarily but not forever. One country with no people will not need rulers but creators which she is not.

@aninditasen The Dollar is now Rs. 83 and she still says the Rupee is holding.

@allknowing This is just a plea to take we the common man for a ride. She is trying to show us that the government has to pay a lot on imports.

Coal cannot be a cooking fuel for all Indians though it's naturally found in India. I senior citizens cannot handle this fuel.

@aninditasen I don't know why they can't. You just pile some up and stick a match to it and there it goes.

@DaddyEvil Where to get those stick and burn them? That too would create smoke.

I know coal isn't the solution. Moreover for coal is a natural resource which needs vast forestation which the people are destroying.

@nela13 Deforestation is responsible for global warming and all calamities are with soil erosion formation of coal is next to impossible.

@aninditasen deforestation is the main problem.

India is importing gas from the Middle East but coal is a natural resource in India. However some Indian scientists have discovered a substitute for petroleum which the Indian politicians are not promoting for their own vested interest.

@porwest The alternative The Indian scientist from Odisha invented was tested. It's a kind of fruit from which fuel oil can be extracted. The Indian government didn't allot enough land to grow it. The disgruntled politicians want to earn illegal money through imports and IMF loans.

@aninditasen My guess would be that unless the world knows about it, an alternative to petroleum right now may be 1) experimental and untried or 2) not currently viable or easily produced. It would seem to me, however, that if cost is an issue and coal is something common to India, then choosing it as a current viable alternative to help the people of India would seem applaudable and entirely appropriate. I look at it from the perspective of the situaton we are in right now in the United States, where we are paying extremely high cost for fuel—the United States has VAST oil resources and natural gas, but Biden saw fit to put it back into the hands of the oil cartels. If he reversed course and opened our drilling again, I would give him a thumbs up.

@aninditasen Sometimes they are compressed wood, but these are made of something else. I don't remember what they are. It is a very small stove. Better than nothing though...

What are pellets? Electricity is expensive here and gets distrusted often and cannot be used as an alternative.

Yes, it's terrible indeed. We are being run by a pack of selfish politicians.

I know it's a very bad solution that is going to put us into trouble instead improving our lives.

@aninditasen that sounds like going backwards instead of forward

@Marilynda1225 What else can it be than going backwards? How much the common man is going to suffer in their hands.

I know how to use coal too but can't bear the smoke anymore or lift the stove with burning coal.

@aninditasen It could also affect our respiratory system.

@Kandae11 That's the truth which will kill people very fast.

It can't be as there's no way this fuel can be used by everybody in India.