Fuel in India.

From discussing fuel in general, I would like to bring a sharper focus on Fuel as used in India, as viewed here. Here, I would tend to focus more on the aspect of  how modern fuel is used and consumed in India along with the policies there-in.

India, traditionally viewed has long been surplus on manpower, and animal riches. It has also been surplus in natural resources - both the ones used from ancient times and the modern discoveries - take coal, for example. However, due to misplaced emphasis on either the evils of industrialisation or westernisation, or on the piety of not being industrialised, the understanding of fuel as life sustenance givers is under-appreciated and misunderstood.

That point requires re-emphasis. Fuels are life-givers.

It gives a different spin to fuel doesnt it? Now it seems like I am equating Rice, Curry, Dal, Roti to be equivalent to Petrol, Diesel, Kerosene etc., Basically on the same level. It is intentional, and it is factual.

Consider every aspect of modern life - without any petroleum product (or similar carbon fuel like Coal) nothing works. Food isnt got to the consumer from the producer, seeds or fertilizer doesnt get to the producer, industries shut down, people cannot commute or travel anywhere. The modern economy has in its veins Petrol and such carbon fuel. Remove it and you are draining the life blood of the modern age. Everything stops.

The comparison above is slightly specious because unlike the blood flow in our bodies, the production of carbon fuels can be increased systematically and there generally isnt a limit on how much we can stock at a certain point of time (within bounds of reason). However, given how much vital blood is, and the actions that we take on shortage of blood, should we not take similar care about the precious fuel in our lives? 

Petrol, Matters.

This is to consolidate and capture my writings on Petrol and Economic matters in one space.
The modern economy is founded on the availability of fuel. In fact, not just modern economy, our own sustenance is founded  on the availability of fuel.

Think of this, why are the major cities near water sources - because water is a fuel for us, for animals, for the food we eat, and grow. Water was our fuel in the older days for many of the work we did, in fact nothing much has changed - most industries - even the hi-tech ones require water as a pre-requisite. In time, our modes of transport have changed - en masse, or at least in the major sense it has shifted entirely into moving as huge masses, and into moving huge masses. Personal transport has followed. And this shift has brought us our own new shift in the fuels we consume.

As long as our means of transportation or *major* means of transportration was animals, the fuel continued to be mostly general natural produce, fodder, animal (waste), wood etc., However post the advent of need for newer methods of producing heat, as well as the discovery of Petroleum reserves and invention of the Steam engine and Internal Combustion Engine, we have since moved over to a form of transportation where fuel is different to what we consume.
Our own natural fuel is now different from the fuel we use for transportation.

In a lot of ways this significant shift is both obvious and oblivious.  Its obvious, we dont see bullock carts, its obvious we arent -mostly-seated on horses (barring, say the references to the white knight). What is not obvious is that the amount of fuel we used to use before, and the amount of equivalent fuel we would need further on. what is also oblivious is how the fuel consumption and our means of transport are intertwined with the major economic well-being.

Most of our productivity, what we produce is dependent on the fuel we consume now - that is not rocket science. What is instead made to be rocket-science, at least in India is the dependence on fuel and how using more fuel can indeed boost productivity, boost the economy make more jobs available.