Bangladesh to shut {natural} gas stations amid power crisis (BBC)

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By Anbarasan Ethirajan
BBC News, Dhaka

The Bangladeshi government has ordered the partial shut-down of natural gas stations in and around the capital to counter a growing power crisis.

Filling stations in and around Dhaka will be closed for six hours a day from 16 August for about a month.

Bangladesh has been experiencing a power crisis that has affected households and businesses for the last few years.
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Earlier this year they ordered air conditioners to be switched off for five hours a day.

The gas filling stations supply to vehicles driven by compressed natural gas, and the government hopes that the gas saved will be used to increase electricity production in gas-fired power plants.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10960337

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1. The {natura} in the thread title had me confused until I read closer.

My first reactions was -- they are shutting down natural gas power plants to solve a power crisis? Then I realized they are gas stations in the automotive sense.