Minh Tuyet, a housewife on Hoang Hoa Tham Street in Ba Dinh district in Hanoi, said that she feels worried about the escalating gas prices.
“I have been doing everything I can to save gas. I try to turn down the heat, and only turn on the gas cooker after I finish preparing materials,” she said.
Hong Loan in Cau Giay district said that she has used a net which allows to gather heat around the pots, thus allowing to reduce the gas volume consumed. “The net proves to be useful. In the past, I had to buy a new gas tank after 45 days, but now a gas tank is enough for two month use,” Loan said.
This kind of net has also become the choice of many other housewives. The product, priced at 40,000 dong each, has been available at supermarkets and hunted by housewives. However, they have been warned that the net proves to be not the optimum solution to save gas, because the cooker would be discolored after a period of use.
Meanwhile, the manager of Gia Dinh Gas Shop in Ha Dong district has affirmed that the net may shorten the life circle of gas cookers. As such, a lot of housewives have decided to use honeycomb coal stoves instead.
Lan Anh in Cau Giay district said that she has shifted to use coal stoves after the gas price skyrocketed to approximately 500,000 dong per 12 kilo tank.
“I have to get up early to make a fire. However, the expenses for the coal stoves are just equal to 1/3 of the gas cooker. Therefore, I will use coal stoves until the gas price decreases,” she said.
As many households now use honeycomb coal stoves, apartment buildings have become the places full of smoke. NV Hai, a security guard at the Dong Tau apartment building in Hoang Mai district said that no one wants to use coal stoves because they well understand the ill effects of the stoves. However, they have no other choice, because they cannot afford the overly expensive gas.
Hai has expressed his worry about the safety of the stoves. “Fire once occurred at the Trung Hoa Nhan Chinh residential quarter,” he said.
The noteworthy thing is that even high income earners also use honeycomb coal stoves to save money. Nguyen Van Chung, the owner of a stove shop at Lang Ha B Market in Hanoi said that previously, only street rice shops used this kind of stoves, but now even high income earners also come to the shop to buy stoves. The people use both gas cookers and coal stoves to practice thrift.
A coal stove is priced between 65,000 and 139,000 dong on average. Most of the products are made in Vietnam. A piece of coal is selling at 2-2700 dong which can provide enough heat for half a day.
Stove smoke pollution causes 2 million deaths each year in developing countries, according to a new report published by the United Nations.
Meanwhile, Chinese scientists have found out that if people do not cook with honeycomb coal stoves any more, this would help reduce the atmosphere pollution by 98 percent.
An Ninh Thu Do has reported that instead of putting coal stoves at kitchen, housewives tend to put the stoves in the open air, right on the pavements. The newspaper has described the stoves as the “moving hotbeds” which can injure or cause death to people and children. Meanwhile, an official from the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment said on the newspaper that the percentage of people infected with serious diseases has been increasing in the communities of people using honeycomb coal stoves.
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