[Stoves] Another attack on solid fuels by public health adventurers

[Nikhil Desai]

Available for free for a few days more. LPG fuel subsidies in Latin America
and the use of solid fuels to cook
<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421517302719>, Karin
Troncoso, forthcoming in Energy Policy Volume 107, August 2017, Pages
188–196

"This study analyzes the relation between fuel subsidies to LPG and solid
fuel use."

Without mentioning LPG price or a subsidy. Where the price of a cylinder is
mentioned, the size of the cylinder is not mentioned. And when expenditure
on fuelwood is mentioned, the volume/weight of the purchase is not
mentioned.

It's cite-o-logy galore, peppering platitudes by throwing in some names and
dates at the end, as if that shows any proof of validity of the assertion.

Any purpose to this?

Simple. The Quixotic war against solid fuels.

Public health (profession) can be a risk factor for solid fuel use.

Take this sentence "India opted for a voluntary program called “give it up”
that asks middle class LPG consumers to give up their LPG fuel subsidy
(US$16 per year), which is transferred to a poor family. As of April 2016,
10 million people had adhered to the program (The Economic Times, 2016
<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421517302719#bib41>
)."

What utter baloney to say "10 million people had adhered to the program".
GiveItUp and alleged transfer of the subsidy to a poor family is a gimmick.
Most of those "given up" subsidies were fictitious or not utilized in the
first place, but our Modi government is as good at cooking up numbers as
WHO and if $16 a year or less than one US penny a day per capita is the
 LPG price subsidy in India, there are a few billion dollars somewhere in
the gutters of Indian cities.

Lesson: Skip the whole paper. I am collecting gratitude at the rate of
$1.90 per capita per day.

DOES ANY BODY CARE

Nikhil


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Nikhil Desai
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Skype: nikhildesai888
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