Lebanon's unbelievable saga with electricity: Kafkaesque!

They are oblivious, poor children growing up in such an environment!

People complain about everything, among them electricity, but it is not a priority though all financial reports say that almost 50% of the debt is due to electricity subsidies. Fuel for electricity generation is subsidized because... nobody really  knows why. Some say because cost of production is high, some say because whole areas in the country do not settle their bills...

Let me explain. After the end of the civil war, 30 years ago, electricity was almost fully restored. Then, after 2006 Israeli attack, it was also almost fully restored.
Then, God knows why the country entered into a cycle of daily at last 3 hours electricity cuts that sometimes increase the 12 hours a day.

Yet, this is how Beirut looks at night.

How come?

The Lebanese are ingenious as individuals and traders by nature. Maybe a remnant of the phonetician era?

Each building set up a generator of its own and entrepreneurs set neighborhood generators and sell 5 or 10 amperes of electricity to households. A quite lucrative business.
Meanwhile, for a decade politicians are discussing solutions and lately came up with the weird idea to rent electricity generation vessels. The cost, more than building new plants or buying from neighboring countries. Some say it is corruption, some say incompetence...
Anyway, the proud Lebanese politicians refuse to sell the national assets of the country and insist on allowing private generator owners to do business from outside the economic system, not paying taxes or following any regulations to prevent pollution.

Conclusion, thousands of generators are churning fumes in the air happily every day. And believe me, you can feel it in your lungs and head!

Yet, when I talk to people, they complain, but honestly are not concerned except for the extra monthly bill they are paying.
Why should they care when they really do not suffer from electricity cuts.

Whenever there is a cut, we jump start the generator and presto! Electricity is back.

What these people do not see cannot hurt them. They do not see the fumes that these generators churn int the air they breath. 

They are oblivious, poor children growing up in such an environment!