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FROM
CUBA
Consumers complain government-sold stoves
malfunction
CAMAGÜEY, Cuba. March 23 (Marilyn
Díaz Fernández, Lux Info Press
/ www.cubanet.org) - Consumers in Sibanicú,
Camagüey province, who bought table-top
electric stoves the government put on sale
March 3, are now complaining the appliances
malfunction more often that not.
Jokers around town have taken to calling
the small stoves "deodorant" in
reference to the number of people who can
be seen carrying the appliance under their
arm on the way to the government-run repair
facility.
Consumers have also complained about the
reliability of the electric cookers the
government sold recently, saying they do
not heat properly.
The stoves went on sale at 100 pesos each,
the electric cookers at 145 pesos.
Both appliances were promoted as energy-saving
measures in the government's campaign to
reduce the demand for electricity in the
oil-poor island.
At least some consumers have taken a more
jaundiced, not to say outright skeptical,
view of the campaign. One man said of the
appliances: "They are cheap junk that
the government charges us a lot for, but
they are no good and consume a lot of electricity."
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