Our oil consumption could be drastically reduced if only the infrastructure is rapidly strengthened. The tardy progress in this direction in places like say Mumbai is pathetic. The trafic moves at snails pace on most roads, especially major arterial roads. The vehicles are made to crawl in first gears. Public transport like Buses and Suburban trains are no more made for even able bodied, you require real muscles to board and alight from them, forget comfort of seats. Project after project is announced, gets underway with a lot of fan fare and media glare. 'Bear with us for better tomorrow' boards start greeting us. But our pain continues for ages. Some times I wonder whether we are the same people who have created Mumbai-Pune Express way, Konkan Railway etc
That is the feeling I get. Also our beloved PM has toed G W Bush's line. Also you are ranting on a computer and Internet, American inventions. Face reality.
RE:Indians are jealous of USA
by kuldeep singh on Jul 24, 2008 01:50 PM Permalink
Mr Suraj, Going by your comments (even the one given below), you dont seem too happy with the condition of our nation. Just ask your self what you have done to improve the condition of the nation?
RE:It is a function of GDP
by Hind on Jul 24, 2008 02:16 PM Permalink
Yeah silly marriages .... its no wrong to splurge on say a big car ... a vacation in goa ... foriegn vacations ..... when can u get a shirt for say 300 rs buy a branded shirt for say 2000 rs. Branded jeans for rs 2000 ... parties in big pubss ... bowling alleys ,,, snooker rooms ... its shame to drink coconut water but splurge 15 bucks of coke tin ,..... what i am telling is people who are having only spending it.. same wise marriage also people who cannot afort go to a temple or respective place of worship and get married ....
so no need to find mistakes in marriage institutions where man with money spluges on everything he can afford to ... please can u stop going to movie in multiplex and spend 200 for ticket and 50 for coke and popcorn , instead go to decen theatre and spend say 150 bucks in all .. ot stop wearing PEPE jeans and Adiddas shoes instead wear bata shoes ... if ur that kind surely marriages are spluges ...
and to think of it - all of their manufacturing is in china, a lot of its bpo and computer operations are in india, russia, etc etc. imagine if all that were computed. USA is a resource hog! india consumes one tenth of their consumption, and more importantly we are about 4 times as big as them in population terms. comparatively they use 40 times more energy! damn shame that bush then tries to blame india and china.
RE:USA alone consumes almost as much as the next top 6 countries!
by ashish agrawal on Jul 24, 2008 12:42 PM Permalink
Dont forget they ues oil for heating purpose also(in the winter season) and most othe country shown above india do so...and in india weather is not so drastic in winter season so we dont ned for the same.so by taking that into account india's oil consumption is not very less...
RE:USA alone consumes almost as much as the next top 6 countries!
by Sorab Dalal on Jul 24, 2008 12:49 PM Permalink
That is their problem, Russia is also a very cold country as is Canada. Both have harsher winters than the US. There are parts of India that have very harsh winters.
RE:USA alone consumes almost as much as the next top 6 countries!
by ashish agrawal on Jul 24, 2008 01:06 PM Permalink
but in india ppls dont have money to use oil,they rely on "Kandri" that use Wood:)
RE:USA alone consumes almost as much as the next top 6 countries!
by aoneall on Jul 24, 2008 01:06 PM Permalink
Most of the Indians are so poor that it is very hard for them to arrange two square meal a day. How can they afford heating or cooling of their houses. Besides, very few Indians live in proper houses.
Do you guess know Air car will be out by end of this yr.. if you dont know about air car please do search in youtube or google you will come to know . Day by day middle east playing games and they know air car is coming out thats why the increasing their petrol price..
RE:Air Car
by aggi soares on Jul 24, 2008 12:11 PM Permalink
mr indian have u played anytime with any toys.. do u think iam fool to fool u did try any search engine?
RE:RE:Air Car
by aoneall on Jul 24, 2008 01:09 PM Permalink
Go and do some reading before commenting. Crude is the mother of most of plastics, fertilizers, petro-chemicals etc. Petrol or diesel is just few odd items extracted from crude. So saving on petrol means very little for Middle East.
RE:Wrong comparison
by Ramesh Krishnamurthy on Jul 24, 2008 11:58 AM Permalink
yes we have to be glad that the cars are so expensive and that a large population of india are living with little or no electricity.
RE:Wrong comparison
by Suraj Singh on Jul 24, 2008 12:53 PM Permalink
We must celebrate that a large part of our population lives below the poverty line?
It is very bad on rediff's part to show traffic jam in Inida where as for other countires you have shown some nice monuments. Don't the other countries have traffic jams. I heard China is worst than India as far as traffic jams are concerned.
RE:Why show traffic jam in India.
by arunim devroy on Jul 24, 2008 11:16 AM Permalink
I agree .. totally wrong !! ... is rediff.com and Indian website ?? ... Jams in US are equally bad .. can take any where between an hour or so to get out !!
