Selling gas
Eram Mahboob Pushpa Raj Saha Lane Lalbag, Dhaka
Our people must be made aware of the energy crisis that is already spreading like a cancer and bigger crises (which are interconnected with energy crisis) that is looming on the horizon. Most people in the country don't have the slightest idea about the energy issues for which all the big fishes in the ocean of world politics are fighting over and creating trouble in the energy rich countries; like the USA trying to grab the Iraqi oil by ANY means whatsoever. Most people don't have the slightest idea about how much energy is consumed by each and every person in the western world. An average nondescript villager will fight till death against corrupt energy practices if only he can be made to visualize how many months of HIS energy requirements an average nondescript westerner consumes in a single day. Nigeria used to be an oil rich country but their corrupt bureaucrats and politicians got them into selling their precious natural resources where the primary consideration was not to make the country's GDP growth but their own pockets. Nigeria is not so rich a country now as it should be. The newspaper and the media should take a vow to protect our energy resources by their every possible means. Selling gas is out of question before USA sells its own gas to other countries instead of keeping its own gas and buying oil (?) from other countries at much lower prices. Canada sells gas to the USA, one might argue but the gas resources in Canada are huge in respect of Canada's population and the price is just about right. Geologists say that where there's gas, there's oil! So it's a reasonable conclusion that our gas resources, upon proper exploration might come out with huge oil reserves too! It'll be soon time to get some ME cleaners here if that happens, unless the natural resources are foul played by the corrupt bosses at the top echelons of the country. Our country's gas is like a poor man's beautiful daughter. Everyone wants to love (read have) her! From the local hero; the petty politician, the rich neighbours' son to the night shift thief. And the poor man is at a loss as to how to protect her from marauding paramours. We must use our gas judiciously, and to do that the first job on our part is to make all the people of the country aware of their rights on the national resources, before the politicians and bureaucrats sell the gas, nay the country at a nominal price and make their own pockets heavy, it's time we made our move and made the people aware. I ask the readers to come up with ideas as to how do we do that.
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