1.   The gas is used for domestic heating and cooking.

2.   Solar panels are usually mounted on the roof of a house and used for domestic heating.

3.   The outcry against the taxation of domestic heating is misplaced.

4.   Burns stressed that the gas is to be used only for such humanitarian needs as domestic heating and cooking, not for industrial or military purposes.

5.   Cairo also has been hit by cold weather in recent days, prompting increased use of electric heaters, the most common method of domestic heating in Egypt.

6.   Less coal is now used for domestic heating.

7.   Apart from the hepatitis outbreak, he said, the lack of domestic heating had caused cold epidemics.