Usually Gas for cooking is delivered by trucks that drive around the city, with tones playing….kinda like ice cream trucks. Â They exchange the tanks ( about twice the size of a barbeque tank) and you swap the tank to power the stove. Â The gas is just used for cooking. Â There is no heating in the houses, and hot water for showers is with an electric on demand heating system.
The trucks have stopped.
I noticed on my way to school that people were lining up in front of the lojagas company. Â One morning there were police to keep order….another it was the army.
Being the coriuous person I am, I started asking what was happening?
My Spanish host family could not understand my question.
My fellow teachers could not give me an answer.
Finally my students provided me with the answer.
Gas comes bottled overland from a city 8 or 9 hours away. Â The heavy rains in the past couple of weeks has washed out roads, so that the deliveries have been delayed, there by creating a shortage. Â Since there is a shortage, they don’t put the gas on trucks, they just have people come and get it.
I am not sure about costs and pricing, so I don’t know if they are profiting from the situation or not.
