Thermal power plants are consuming 27,000 tons per day of mostly imported oil for generating power at Rs16 per unit which the government is supplying to the consumers at Rs8 per unit, incurring huge losses. Does it make sense for the PPP to say that had Benazir’s energy policy not been reversed things would have been much better? On the contrary, things would have been much worse, we would have been importing and consuming more oil and producing expensive power and subsidising it. This propaganda by PPP is to cover up the faulty policy of putting all our eggs in the thermal basket. IPPs, at best, should have been a short term measure. If long term hydel projects had been initiated, we would not be importing so much oil today. It is bad enough to pursue a faulty policy but it is even worse to praise it is to pull wool over people’s eyes.
Engr Khurshid Anwer
Lahore