Nigeria's Fuel Costs: Gas Conversion Challenges and Financial Strain

We all know that the cost of fuel in Nigeria has increased so much, and it is affecting quite a lot of things. I knew about this but I had not really felt it so much until yesterday night which was very painful in a way.

I have been writing about converting my generator to gas, which I have done by buying a hybrid caburator for my generator which would allow my generator to run both on gas and also on fuel, depending on what I want to use.

But since I have bought the caburator, I have not really been enjoying it running on gas, I face serious issues. One of the issues I face is that the gas regulator does not read any pressure on my gas, making it seem as if there is no gas in my cylinder.

When I put on my generator, it does not take long, it turns off as if there is no gas again in the cylinder but anytime I take back my cylinder to the gas station, they tell me that there is still gas in it. I have been in a confused state thinking what could be the problem.

I have friends, although not close to my location, who are presently running their generators on gas and are enjoying having the electricity at a cheaper price. Imagine running your generator for 4hours on just one kg of gas, i.e. you are just spending 680 naira which is approximately $0.75

Rain fell that yesterday, which means that there would be no electricity for me. Since I didn't want to be unproductive, I decided to try out my generator again, I went to get 1kg gas inside my cylinder, in case there may not be gas in it again truly and tried running it on my gen, but I kept facing the same problems repeatedly.

So this time, I decided to turn my gas cylinder upside down to see if I would get enough pressure to flow inside the generator but it was still the same just that this time, the gas was leaking through the regulator while being upside down. I got so frustrated that I had to trek to the filling station in the night which is a little far from where I stay to buy fuel for my generator. I ended up with the option of using petrol again.

For buying petrol of #2000 naira which is approximately $2.22, I got 3.33 liters of fuel in my keg. I went home to put on my generator to see how it goes. Can you believe that 3.33 liters of fuel only used 1 hour 30mins on my generator.

Wow, in just 1 hour 30 mins, $2 had gone just like that. I was pained because if I gas was to work properly, spending $2 on my gas should give me 12 hours of electricity.

I cannot continue like this buying fuel at this rate and having it to finish this early. I would really broke if I do so.

Today, I would try another experiment. Since I have a smaller gas, I would try it with my generator to see if it would work. I would come with a feedback soon...

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