{"id":120474,"date":"2021-11-20T17:27:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T00:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=120474"},"modified":"2021-11-20T17:27:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T00:27:11","slug":"minister-gammanpila-on-big-focus-demolishes-the-rendering-in-parliament-of-pacha-upalis-deliberately-misleading-false-assertions-designed-to-create-panic-buying-and-queues-at-fuel-pumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/11\/20\/minister-gammanpila-on-big-focus-demolishes-the-rendering-in-parliament-of-pacha-upalis-deliberately-misleading-false-assertions-designed-to-create-panic-buying-and-queues-at-fuel-pumps\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Gammanpila On Big Focus Demolishes the Rendering In Parliament of Pacha Upali’s Deliberately Misleading & False Assertions Designed To Create Panic Buying and Queues at Fuel Pumps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Lower Hutt NZ\u2019<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Minister Udaya Gammanpila has to be roundly congratulated\nand thanked  for promptly accessing media\nto explain the truth to the world and demolish the well organised &  well funded propagation of\nmisrerepresentations, deliberate lies and myths when ever they arise. This is a\ndesperate requirement in SL where baseless Rumour and Myth rules the roost\nwhere the truth is often relegated to the bottom of a heap of these lies, a\nconsequence of this organised and well funded misuse of the democratic freedom\nof speech, which was meant to be exercised with responsibility and not\ndeliberately and wrongly exploited as in Sri Lanka. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sri Lankan\u2019s should rise up big time against this  deliberate misuse and wrong exploitation of\nthe sacred democratic freedom of speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the Big Focus program on Derana TV on 19\/11\/21\nMinister Gammanpila was at his brilliant best demolishing the claims made in\nParliament, by one who had been challenged by his own cabinet colleagues to\nshow some of his educational credentials . This member based his claims  on  a\ndeliberately misleading analysis of the government’s  handling of the current challenges on\nacquisition of it\u2019s fuel requirements by one known at school as  Pacha Upali\u201d . The minister explained that\nas the govt was often obtaining fuel on credit for several months at a time ,\nthey would need to source petroleum products from those prepared to do this and\nnot necessarily from the lowest spot price that would require prompt payment. .\nThis is not possible on account of the destroyers economy left by Yahapalana\nnow compounded by Covid. Not buying the \ncheapest was suggested in parliament by the Pacha Upali\u201d mislead member\nas fraudulent.! The real reason for this is as above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Minister also explained why they chose to close Sapugaskanda\nrefinery for 50 days, a planned closure already announced in September during\nwhich time it\u2019s service needs would be addressed,  .Imported refined products accounts for 70%\nof Sri Lanka\u2019s requirements , while the old technology based Iran manufactured\nSapugaskanda only provided 30% of the oil requirement. Most of this was the\ntype used for firing oil powered electricity generation, which has a low need\nnow with overflowing hydroelectricity reservoirs and completely full storage\ncapacity for these petroleum products.Hence the planned closure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the response to the triumphant question raised by\nthe member with questionable educational credentials, of how the govt had\nmoney to buy refined oil and not crude”. This was based on the current\nrequirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current need was to maintain the requirement of the\nimportation of the 70% refined oil, of which there was their current usual back\nup fo  10-15days, as has been the\npractice for years.base on SL\u2019s low levels Forex availability  These reserves have not been challenged at\nall in the past years and the plans to maintain this level for the foreseeable\nfuture are well established and no cause for concern at all. As we write\nseveral ships with refined oil are in the \nColombo Harbour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Against this back ground , despite government\u2019s repeated\nreassurances of no shortage of fuel, panic buying was created by these\ndeliberately misleading  mischievous\nclaims of fuel shortage, orchestrated by media , some deliberately, some in\ntheir ignorance , that led to the shortages at the pumps where their usual\nstores for   3 days was exhausted in a\nday through panic buying  and\nreplenishing the stocks at the pump takes a few days . Despite the Minister\nreassuring the public, the false and misleading alternative was so pervasive ,\nleading to the above results..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you again Minister \nand congratulations  for your\nbrilliant work, keep doing the same, encourage more of your colleagues to do\nthe same & please don\u2019t fail to deliver on your promise of making\ncommercially available , the first gushes of Natural Gas from the Mannar Basin\nwithin 3 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Lower Hutt NZ\u2019 Minister Udaya Gammanpila has to be roundly congratulated and thanked  for promptly accessing media to explain the truth to the world and demolish the well organised &  well funded propagation of misrerepresentations, deliberate lies and myths when ever they arise. This is a desperate requirement in SL where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}