In most Asian countries, the rural population mainly depends upon non-commercial fuels to meet its domestic energy needs. They do not purchase any fuel from the market as fuelwood is a non-tradeable commodity in rural areas. The land owners obtain its supplies from their farmlands and other people collect it as a free good from the waste lands and public forests. But the situation in urban areas is altogether different. Here people purchase all fuels from the market to meet their domestic energy needs. They mostly use commercial fuels such as natural gas, kerosene oil and liquified petroleum gas (LPG). Those who use fuelwood and charcoal, they also purchase it from the market. Thus in strict commercial sense a market for woodfuels exists only in urban areas. Each urban center has a number of firewood sales depots which sell fuelwood to the consumers. In some cases the firewood sales depots also sell charcoal.