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Minister of Supply and Domestic Trade Mohamed Abu Shady said butane gas cylinders will be available for home delivery via telephone order within a few days. Several hotlines will be allocated for the service across Egypt in coordination with Petroleum Ministry.

During a meeting on Monday with heads of gas distribution companies including Gasco, Petrogas, Cairogas, head of the trade chambers union’s petroleum substances division, private sector producers and distributors of gas, Abu Shady said that the delivery fees for the cylinders will range between LE2-5 in addition to the LE8 for the cylinder itself. Fees for delivering cylinders used for trading purposes reach LE10 in addition to LE16 for the cylinder. A technician will come over to then install the cylinder.

The service targets facilitating burdens over citizens as well as obtaining their needs easily and preserving their safety. It also aims at delivering subsidized petroleum substances, estimated at LE100 billion annually, to those who need it and hence put an end to black market, the minister added.

Intensified campaigns to control distribution of butane gas cylinders by delivery will be launched. Hotline numbers are 19805 - 19468. There will be also forms available free of charge at post offices to file complaints against the service.

Source: http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/mi ... ered-phone

Is this service for Egyptian card holders only or for the likes of us Europeans? Are the street donkey deliveries going to stop? Whatever the criteria, at least as the article states, will hopefully put an end to the ridiculous black market prices in times of shortages and the illegal refilling from larger cylinders that is a highly dangerous practice.

I can really see that being an effective service in Upper Egypt.

" Yes, my address?, well its the third building on the left after you go down the un-named dirt road in the village near the Nile"

I don't think things will change much round here. After all "it has always been done this way".

Don't you worry BBLUX, since the Mubarak period, those nice tax people up there in Cairo, have been making grid systems for those 'out of the way more affluent areas' throughout Egypt, in preparation for the up and coming property tax. So I see no problem in the gas people finding you, especially when this commodity now has additional 'tax' added, to pay off that debt I mentioned last week, to the likes of British Gas, amongst others.

As you no doubt know A four, we live in a semi gated community protected by a large pack of dogs. No one is going to consider delivering to us. Not to worry though as I am assured that this officialdom is only for Cairo and normal service will continue here for the forseeable future........