Petchabun Trip 2 - Keeping Warm with Bio Fuels

As I said in the previous post, it was cold by Thai standards. Mornings and evenings there were always several fires going with people sitting or standing around. To a certain extent, Thais are enjoying the cold as a chance to wear their winter fashions, even among this low income group. There were lots of ski caps and jauntily worn scarves and other cloth shawls. I notice watching the inauguration last night that the men wore their scarves, mostly, discreetly under their overcoats, just barely showing Not here. As in India, men as well as women wear the hats and scarves with flair. Watch the pictures in the coming posts.





While there was some firewood involved, used up corn cobs were the major source of fuel for the fires. They had big plastic bags of the cobs. In the meetings one of the topics was how the price of corn had fallen sharply when oil tanked and this really hurt the farmers who had switched to corn because of the previous high costs.




The corn kernels had been scraped off the cobs and sold or eaten[I was told today this kind of corn is not eaten by people] - this is also an animal food - and so they had lots of cobs to burn.