If you are sitting on giant oil fields, it seems like a bad idea to have villagers carrying around giant plastic bags full of natural gas.  Welcome to rural China, where the distance between poor and rich is so dramatic they would rather have old people carrying around bombs than let them use some fuel to heat their homes.

Anybody along the Keystone XL pipeline want to complain now?
On the morning of the 20th, when reporters first arrived, the oil extraction machinery was operating normally, a gas canister and large gas furnace were beside the machine with no people standing guard. At 10 am, a middle aged woman brought a large plastic bag to the machine. The woman skillfully opened the valve to the gas and connected it to the bag she was carrying, the plastic bag quickly rose and grew to be a 6 meter long, 1 meter wide balloon. After about 4 minutes the bag was full.


Villagers Inflate Plastic Bags with Natural Gas to Carry Home Chinasmack.com