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Thursday evening while coming back from Delhi I saw long queues of vehicles at the petrol pumps. At some stations the waiting time was 10 mins while for some it was reportedly 2-3 hours. I was in my car and was pretty sure that this is just a small problem that will get sorted out by tomorrow or so. I got petrol worth Rs. 500 and came home. While on my way home I came across long queues and at some places the Mathura road was jammed due to queues spilling over the highway.
As I sat in front of my TV and watched the news at night the situation was getting grim and it looked that the problems is getting worse. The talks have failed and they are going to have a meeting on Friday noon. What about till then? By every hour the percentage of the petrol pumps running dry kept on rising after which I decided to make the move. At 5:30AM I went to the nearby petrol pump - DRY ... Second one - DRY ... Third one - DRY ... Fourth one - still running, which I could make out from a distance by looking at the queue even at this hour of the day. There was only one pump running and the cars had queued up for that. Bikers who came to get fuel were told to either get in the line or go away since only one pump was working. I got in the line. And after 35 minutes I was able to get the fuel.
Well I don't know but I really hope that the situation is not as worse as it seems now. Last night I was talking to aryan and said that maybe we are over-reacting. But, after hearing the failure of the talks and pumps running dry every hour it's better to be safe than sorry. Right now in the news they are saying 60% of the pumps have gone dry. I can imagine the kind of rush there is gonna be today at every working pump.
And all this made me think about the thing we are ignoring - The Future. This is just one day and look where we are. What about the time when this is not just a small strike but rather a global extinction of the petroleum resources. We might have a way then but things will never be the same again. The whole country seems to be coming to a stand still. Government has asked consumers to use LPG efficiently at home. The CNG stations will come down today after ONGC employees stopped the production off the mumbai shore. They say even the government buses just have one day of diesel with them. What if the strike goes for 2 more days? Just a small trailer of the future.
As I sat in front of my TV and watched the news at night the situation was getting grim and it looked that the problems is getting worse. The talks have failed and they are going to have a meeting on Friday noon. What about till then? By every hour the percentage of the petrol pumps running dry kept on rising after which I decided to make the move. At 5:30AM I went to the nearby petrol pump - DRY ... Second one - DRY ... Third one - DRY ... Fourth one - still running, which I could make out from a distance by looking at the queue even at this hour of the day. There was only one pump running and the cars had queued up for that. Bikers who came to get fuel were told to either get in the line or go away since only one pump was working. I got in the line. And after 35 minutes I was able to get the fuel.
Well I don't know but I really hope that the situation is not as worse as it seems now. Last night I was talking to aryan and said that maybe we are over-reacting. But, after hearing the failure of the talks and pumps running dry every hour it's better to be safe than sorry. Right now in the news they are saying 60% of the pumps have gone dry. I can imagine the kind of rush there is gonna be today at every working pump.
And all this made me think about the thing we are ignoring - The Future. This is just one day and look where we are. What about the time when this is not just a small strike but rather a global extinction of the petroleum resources. We might have a way then but things will never be the same again. The whole country seems to be coming to a stand still. Government has asked consumers to use LPG efficiently at home. The CNG stations will come down today after ONGC employees stopped the production off the mumbai shore. They say even the government buses just have one day of diesel with them. What if the strike goes for 2 more days? Just a small trailer of the future.
wish we had better public transport.
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Gotta check HPCL and SHELL bunks in the afternoon time.
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