The furnaces at Vaikunth Dham, the largest crematorium in India’s Maharashtra state, have gone quiet. The operators only had enough liquified petroleum(natural) gas (LNG) for a few more cremations. From here on out, the dead would be cremated by electricity or by wood. It was a small, grim, seemingly unremarkable administrative decision, thousands of miles […]The post Crude realities: a knife to the world’s energy jugular appeared first on Asia Times.