stay at home/hotel mondays!!!!!!

[keith doug]

whatever next.!! according to reports bars/restaurants everything may be closed on mondays soon (in order to save electricity!!!)

is this 2005!!!! ::

[Dude_Le_Rude]

 

 

to save electricity? or is it... Khao Phansa???

[BelgianBoy]

BANGKOK: -- Thailand is looking at more energy-saving measures to cut ballooning oil-import bills, which are slowing economic growth, officials said yesterday.

 

Thais may have to pay more for electricity, cut out evening trips to the golf-driving range or even stay home on Monday nights as bars and clubs are forced to close if the Cabinet approves a new raft of proposals, they said.

 

?We are testing the water with different ideas, to sound out which measure can be implemented,? Pornchai Rujiprapha, a senior Energy Ministry official said.

 

?For golf-driving ranges, as an occasional swinger I don?t think 9pm is the time to play,? Pornchai said.

 

Other proposals included obliging petrol stations to close at 10pm, instead of midnight and raising duties on, or banning cars with 1.8-litre engines or bigger, he said.

 

Pornchai said his ministry was working on estimating the amount of money the country could save from these measures, some of which have proved effective in the past.

 

?When we decided to close service stations from midnight to 10, oil demand went down by three to four per cent,? he said, referring to a voluntary campaign two years ago.

 

?So this time we expect demand to fall by at least two per cent after we close the pumps at 10,? he said.

 

It was not immediately clear which proposals the Cabinet might approve at its meeting next week.

 

Finance Minister Somkid Jatusripitak had opposed restricting oil imports and lowering strategic oil reserves and told reporters on Monday that such proposals had been dropped.

 

The government launched a voluntary campaign last month urging motorists to drive below 90kph, turn off air-conditioning during lunch breaks and switch off at least one light.

 

Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has expressed disappointment at the results and threatened tougher measures unless people fell into line.

 

The government has spent Bt92 billion in subsidising retail fuel prices since January 2004, most of it on diesel used by millions of farmers who make Thailand the world?s biggest rice exporter.

 

It ended the subsidy on petrol in October and is phasing out that on diesel.

 

Thailand, which imports 90 per cent of its crude oil, spent Bt1 trillion on all fuels last year, the equivalent of 15 per cent of its gross domestic product, Energy Minister Viset Choopiban said last week.

 

?Revenues from our annual rice sales could pay for less than two months of crude purchases,? he told a business seminar on energy consumption.

 

?Oil prices will continue to keep their upward trend and will rise even further when the winter comes, therefore we must save now,? he said.

 

Chaipranin Visudhipol, president of the Advertising Association of Thailand, expressed support for the Energy Ministry?s proposal for lights on outdoor billboards to be turned off at 9pm.

 

?It?s a good measure. During this period of economic difficulty, it is the duty of everybody to help save energy,? said Chaipranin, who is also managing director of advertising agency TBWA\Thailand Co Ltd.

 

Chaipranin said the restriction would not create any difficulties for outdoor-media businesses or their clients. The hours after 9pm are not a prime-time period for billboards and few vehicles are on the road at that time, he said.

 

Chatchai Wiratyosin, marketing manager of Boonrawd Brewery Co Ltd, the maker of Singha Beer, said his company, which employs outdoor billboards as a major advertising medium, had no problems with the restriction.

 

?It doesn?t make much difference whether you turn the lights out at 9pm or midnight. People usually see the billboards in the daytime,? he said.

 

--The Nation 2005-07-06

 

.... now you know why !

 

BB

[Dude_Le_Rude]

 

I stand corrected.

[Khun_Kong]

BelgianBoy said:

...

 

?... as an occasional swinger I don?t think 9pm is the time to play,? Pornchai said.

 

This shows what crap they speak.

 

A real swinger would know that 9pm is a perfect time to play (as is 9am, 1 in the afternoon or any other time)!

[Guest]

Snipped:

 

"Thais may have to pay more for electricity, cut out evening trips to the golf-driving range or even stay home on Monday nights as bars and clubs are forced to close if the Cabinet approves a new raft of proposals, they said."

 

@@@>> The Thai GoGo DJs can do their part by shutting down the ear spltting techno-hiphop cacophany by 10pm, also.

Ahh, picture the pole dancers gyrating to a "swinging" Frank Sinatra song.

I reckon so.

[Central Scrutinizer]

Taksin and the boyos in his admin are fucking scary really. The braintrust these fellas are not. Now here in Beantown there would be a new little tax quietly passed and quickly enacted that had the people using these places paying an extra little 'entertainment and restaurant venue energy tax'.

 

Soon I think Toxin will just close down Bangkok and tell everyone to take a bus back to the village they came from.

 

The man is brain-dead. What, he wants to emulate Laos?

 

Cent

[Guest]

if thai government want to reduce oil consumption they should do away with subsidizing oil products, like gasoline or petrol. you hit thais in the pocketbook then they will listen. what is wrong with supply and demand.

 

supply and demand determines the prices we pay for thai pussy....lol.

 

works for me!