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Agencies face budget cuts if power bills rise

The cabinet Tuesday told state agencies to get serious about saving energy, or face budget cuts.

State agencies will have their budgets for the next fiscal year cut if their power bills rise by more than 15 per cent on last year, ministers decided.

Energy Minister Pongsak Raktapongpaisal last week warned that Thailand could face an energy shortage when Myanmar reduces its gas production in April for annual maintenance work.

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  • spiceman

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    Discussion 3 : 20 Feb 2013 at 05.443

    An immediate step can be taken by issuing a new dress code, allowing short pant like what the Brit civil servants wore when they were in Hong Kong and Malaysia.

  • whathe

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    Discussion 2 : 20 Feb 2013 at 04.442

    They want to cut state agencies power bills by 10% but will only step in if bills go up by 15% ??
    Maybe the elevators will operate on a kind of odds and evens system, too bad if there is only 1 elevator...Also you have to enforce stricter speed limits not promote them,... I could go on, but yes April fools day is fast approaching...

  • Merlin

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    Discussion 1 : 20 Feb 2013 at 03.531

    "elevators should be set to stop every two floors", is this some sort of joke? April 1st is still months away!

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