Old US refrigerators must be changed for Chinese models

FROM CUBA
Old U.S. refrigerators must be changed for Chinese models

HAVANA, March 17 (Jaime Leygonier / www.cubanet.org) - Residents owning
old American-made refrigerators must trade them in for new Chinese models.

President Fidel Castro issued the order last year as a means of cutting
the consumption of electricity, the Chinese models presumably being more
efficient than the old U.S. ones.

However, some residents say the old models work better. "I have a 1951
refrigerator that works like it did on the first day and I don't plan to
change it," said one resident.

The government made a house-to-house census of refrigerators to get an
estimate of how many Chinese models would be needed.

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