Most private bakeries will be able to honor their obligations even if the supply of gas will be again ceased, after conceiving a plan to avoid a potential crisis, Info-Prim Neo reports. “For a period of up to two weeks, those who have the necessary equipment to heat the ovens with diesel fuel will be able to provide bread at current prices to those who haven't made this investment”, said Igor Cojuhari, the director of the eponymous Cojuhari bakery. If the gas outage lasts for more than two weeks, all the bakeries will have to invest in new equipment, added Cojuhari. According to him, even if diesel fuel is three times more expensive than gas, his bakery will not raise the price of bread by more than 0.05 lei apiece. Converting one oven to use diesel oil instead of natural gas costs around 15,000 to 25,000 lei, he informed. The situation would worsen for the bakeries which serve public institutions. The contracts for provision of bread, usually concluded for a period of one year, would compel the bakeries to provide bread at current prices, and this could drive them into bankruptcy, thinks Nina Covas, director of Capilati bakery. Since the Ukrainians halted gas supplies, almost all the bakeries have been baking bread for two or three days ahead. “We've started stocking up as early as before the holidays, because we've learned from previous years that the demand for bread is rising in this period. But we haven't been worried because we know these kinds of problems are resolved at a higher level, by the Government, in the positive sense”, said Liliana Pavlov, senior technologist at the bakery Alex-Neosim.