Khun_Kong Posted June 23, 2005 Report Share Posted June 23, 2005 Unfucking believeable You want to piss people off? Shut the bars at 1 AM. You want to make them go insane? Take away their (M)TV! Yes, the Thai guv is threatening to make ALL TV and radio stations, including cable TV, shut down at midnight if people don't start saving the right amount of energy. In a related burst of intelligence, the crack administration at my job decided they would shut down 4 of the 6 elevators in my building. My 18 god-damn story building. With somewhere in excess of 3000 students and teachers travelling from floor to floor all day long. So now, instead of 6 elevators occasionally running, 2 are on the go CONSTANTLY and the wait for an elevator has increased from about 30 seconds to somewhere around 10-15 minutes. :banghead: :cussing: :onfire: :onfire: Get Ready for a TV Curfew Get ready for a TV curfew Policy panel passes energy-saving plan SOONRUTH BUNYAMANEE & AMORNRAT MAHITTHIROOK All television channels, including cable TV stations, and community radio stations will be asked to close by midnight from now until August as part of energy-saving measures generated by the Energy Policy Committee. They were part of a package of energy-saving measures approved at yesterday's meeting chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Visanu Krue-ngam. The effectiveness of the measures will be evaluated after August. If they prove to be ineffective or energy consumption was reduced by less than 10%, compulsory measures would then be introduced, said Metta Bantherngsuk, director of the Energy Policy and Planning Office, said. Under the proposals, all television and community radio stations will be asked to go off the air no later than midnight, all golf courses will be asked to turn off unnecessary lights and government offices will be asked to set air-conditioners to 25C during 9am-4pm, and to switch them off for an hour during lunch break. All law enforcement offices, particularly the Royal Thai Police Office, are to strictly enforce the speed limits _ 90km per hour on general roads, 110kph on expressways and 120kph on motorways. Operators of city and inter-provincial buses yesterday sought government permission to increase their fares. The proposal was turned down by Deputy Transport Minister Adisorn Piengkes, who said the government does not have a policy of allowing bus fares to be increased, despite the rise in the price of diesel. But the Transport Ministry will introduce measures to cushion the impact of rising fuel prices, such as finding sources of cheap fuel and low-cost spare parts and equipment, he said. ''The government will certainly not allow fares to go up during this time because there was an increment only about a month ago. However, we know entrepreneurs are being hit and are now in trouble,'' the deputy minister said. Apiwut Thongkham, president of the BMTA franchise of buses and minibuses, proposed that fares for regular buses and air-conditioned buses go up by two baht, while those for minibuses go up by 1.50 baht. Regular buses now charge a flat rate of six baht, and tickets for air-conditioned buses go from nine to 11 baht. Minibus fares are 4.50 baht. Mr Apiwut said the higher diesel price meant over 5,000 operators were in trouble. They had no other choice but to increase fares or stop their services, he said. Viroj Wongthires, secretary-general of the short-route inter-provincial buses association, wanted fares to go up 2-3 satang per km for buses running over a distance of 40-150km and 2 satang per km for buses running over a distance of more than 150km. Suchinda Cherdchai, president of the long-route inter-provincial buses association, wanted to raise fares by six satang per km. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives plans to request approval from the cabinet to help fishermen modify their boat engines to use NGV (natural gas for vehicles) as fuel instead of diesel. Deputy Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Newin Chidchob said yesterday that the Ministry of Energy and the National Fisheries Association of Thailand will together study the possibility. The result should be known within a month. ''If successful, fuel costs should be cut by 40%,'' Mr Newin said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.. Posted June 23, 2005 Report Share Posted June 23, 2005 55555555555555 You just can't make this shit up! Cheers, SD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whosyourdaddy Posted June 24, 2005 Report Share Posted June 24, 2005 Cool . Does this mean I get 50% back from UBC since it is only on %50 of the time.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 24, 2005 Report Share Posted June 24, 2005 No tv, no advertising income for the stations. Wonder if it will work, I doubt it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Hippie Posted June 24, 2005 Report Share Posted June 24, 2005 O.k. so no t.v. you just fire up a stereo or CD player or a DVD/VCD player and watch...losing the signal will not stop people from having fun, or using power...and the previous poster is right, to much money to be lost... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David_66_UK Posted June 24, 2005 Report Share Posted June 24, 2005 ROTFLMAO (In Farangland!) Is Thailand on the verge of another 97 style crisis or something - I thought they had built up plenty of currency reserves? Maybe should have bought some Oil instead. Probably find out in due course that some Ministers Cousins' maid's auntie has sold the entire Thai Oil production forward for the next 10 years on the basis that the price MUST drop and they can buy it back later cheaper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted June 24, 2005 Report Share Posted June 24, 2005 I note that the Thai Baht has been slipping (at least against the NZ $ ) for about 6 months now. Cheers Coss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shit-Spattered Dog Posted June 24, 2005 Report Share Posted June 24, 2005 Khun_Kong said:Unfucking believeable You want to piss people off? Shut the bars at 1 AM. You want to make them go insane? Take away their (M)TV! Yes, the Thai guv is threatening to make ALL TV and radio stations, including cable TV, shut down at midnight if people don't start saving the right amount of energy. In a related burst of intelligence, the crack administration at my job decided they would shut down 4 of the 6 elevators in my building. My 18 god-damn story building. With somewhere in excess of 3000 students and teachers travelling from floor to floor all day long. So now, instead of 6 elevators occasionally running, 2 are on the go CONSTANTLY and the wait for an elevator has increased from about 30 seconds to somewhere around 10-15 minutes. :banghead: :cussing: :onfire: :onfire: Get Ready for a TV Curfew Get ready for a TV curfew Policy panel passes energy-saving plan SOONRUTH BUNYAMANEE & AMORNRAT MAHITTHIROOK All television channels, including cable TV stations, and community radio stations will be asked to close by midnight from now until August as part of energy-saving measures generated by the Energy Policy Committee. They were part of a package of energy-saving measures approved at yesterday's meeting chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Visanu Krue-ngam. The effectiveness of the measures will be evaluated after August. If they prove to be ineffective or energy consumption was reduced by less than 10%, compulsory measures would then be introduced, said Metta Bantherngsuk, director of the Energy Policy and Planning Office, said. Under the proposals, all television and community radio stations will be asked to go off the air no later than midnight, all golf courses will be asked to turn off unnecessary lights and government offices will be asked to set air-conditioners to 25C during 9am-4pm, and to switch them off for an hour during lunch break. All law enforcement offices, particularly the Royal Thai Police Office, are to strictly enforce the speed limits _ 90km per hour on general roads, 110kph on expressways and 120kph on motorways. Operators of city and inter-provincial buses yesterday sought government permission to increase their fares. The proposal was turned down by Deputy Transport Minister Adisorn Piengkes, who said the government does not have a policy of allowing bus fares to be increased, despite the rise in the price of diesel. But the Transport Ministry will introduce measures to cushion the impact of rising fuel prices, such as finding sources of cheap fuel and low-cost spare parts and equipment, he said. ''The government will certainly not allow fares to go up during this time because there was an increment only about a month ago. However, we know entrepreneurs are being hit and are now in trouble,'' the deputy minister said. Apiwut Thongkham, president of the BMTA franchise of buses and minibuses, proposed that fares for regular buses and air-conditioned buses go up by two baht, while those for minibuses go up by 1.50 baht. Regular buses now charge a flat rate of six baht, and tickets for air-conditioned buses go from nine to 11 baht. Minibus fares are 4.50 baht. Mr Apiwut said the higher diesel price meant over 5,000 operators were in trouble. They had no other choice but to increase fares or stop their services, he said. Viroj Wongthires, secretary-general of the short-route inter-provincial buses association, wanted fares to go up 2-3 satang per km for buses running over a distance of 40-150km and 2 satang per km for buses running over a distance of more than 150km. Suchinda Cherdchai, president of the long-route inter-provincial buses association, wanted to raise fares by six satang per km. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives plans to request approval from the cabinet to help fishermen modify their boat engines to use NGV (natural gas for vehicles) as fuel instead of diesel. Deputy Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Newin Chidchob said yesterday that the Ministry of Energy and the National Fisheries Association of Thailand will together study the possibility. The result should be known within a month. ''If successful, fuel costs should be cut by 40%,'' Mr Newin said. And here I sit, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, cussing my own goverment. Waiting for that day when I can quit and live in Thailand where I can get away from the obvious pinheads in charge......... :: Best responce so far: if the cable is off 50% of the time your bill should reflected a 50% reduction. Best solution to the energy crisis: build more nukes. Shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khun_Kong Posted June 24, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2005 Cable company today said it will have little effect on them! Yeah. They've already got our money and "Not our fault/mai bpen rai. Government say. What can we do?" Discount off monthly bin? Doubt it!! :grrr: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 25, 2005 Report Share Posted June 25, 2005 KK, one more delicious story from KK's school... after the fat ladies pics I really wish U'd make the name public so people start take their kids outta there :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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