AMMAN — With a steep rise in fuel prices, some
Jordanian have found an
alternative for hearing their homes: hard pressed olive residue.
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Many Jordanians, complain that they are unable to
cope with several rises in the price of oil derivavtives this year, as dictated
by global developments. While some opted for wooden heaters, some are using
hard pressed olive residue to heat up their homes.
Farmer Hassan Al-Najdawi said that he has been using
pressed olive pits, called jift, for heating because “I cannot afford to pay
for diesel fuel.”
“It’s not shaby — it heats well, and it’s safe,” he
told Jordan News.
He explained that he buys a large quantity of jift
in the autumn, following the season of pressing olives for oil. “My ancestors
used this method for heating,” he noted.
“It is a flammable material, and its combustion
continues for a long time,” he pointed out.
Energy expert
Hashem Aqel told Jordan
News that “if we look at the financial condition of citizens, we
find the pressed olives a good alternative for many”.
He explained that it heats well, and is much cheaper
than relying on other oil derivatives, “especially since the options available
for the citizens are very few”.
But he encouraged citizens to use gas because it is
widely available in the market. “In the past few years, several cases of
suffocation caused by the kerosene heaters were reported,” he said.
Energy expert Amer Al-Shobaki said that the
government must “be aware that the rise in the price of oil derivatives,
especially in winter, will negatively affect both, the citizen and the
government”.
“Therefore, the use of firewood and other sources of
heating is expected due to their heating efficacy, more than kerosene and gas
heaters”, he noted.
But he admitted that using such material will
increase the “proportion of carbon emissions, in addition to the likelihood of
suffocation”.
“Dried pressed olive is in in great demand
recently,” he added. As a result, the price of one tonne of hard pressed olive
residue, which cost JD70, more than doubled to JD150.
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