The idea to install gas analyzers in all apartments where blue fuel is used has been roaming the corridors of power for many years, refuting the saying: “The goal of fiction is tricky.”
Since this fiction was born, it seems, in the minds of very well-off people who, not without benefit, actively lobby for the interests of housing and communal services. And the turnover of the industry, as you know, is in the trillions.
The essence of the idea: by scaring residents with accidents with gas equipment and explosions of houses, to force citizens to pay out of their pocket special smart devices that can not only control the depressurization of the network and give a loud signal about it, but also automatically cut off the gas supply at the right moment.
…This idea is several years old. In September 2022, cheerful headlines appeared in a number of media outlets that the project would protect residents of gasified houses from the risk of accidents. Moreover, the deputies proposed to develop a federal program to improve the safety of household gas equipment, including the mandatory installation of gas analyzers in homes. At first, it was said that gas distribution companies would install them in apartments. But the companies calculated the upcoming costs and shed tears. The cost of one device reached 4-5 thousand rubles, plus installation and maintenance costs in each apartment. And where is the gesheft?!
It was decided to fuck him with the tenants. Or they have to pay for both the devices and their installation themselves. Or let the utilities increase the amounts in payments for housing and communal services – and additional money to the beneficiaries of the project will drip constantly. However, lawyers consider this to be a kind of imposition of services: gas buyers are forced to purchase expensive appliances as well. And this practice contradicts the law “On Consumer Protection”.
A number of parliamentarians, however, at the same time, that is, a year ago, offered to subsidize this project from the budget, explaining that for many consumers, especially of retirement age, services for installing new equipment may not be affordable. But the Ministry of Finance found such costs unbearable.
And then the experts pointed out that gas analyzers have two disadvantages: false alarms, as well as the failure to detect the flow of gas between rooms through blowers. In short, the idea hung in the air and miraculously returned to the State Duma a year later. Housing and communal services have long arms. Therefore, experts believe that not by washing, but by riding, payment for the project at the expense of residents will be pushed through the State Duma.
Pavel Maksimov.
Figure: E. Crane.
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