12-05-2016, 07:32 PM
Yes, I know what you mean. The same happened here but more recently. Petrol was really cheap until the late 80's. Then it started to go up. And now, when oil goes down worldwide, it's still growing. Silly policies, when a barrel was 120usd a few years ago, the price was fixed at 76 by the government, to support the motorists and transport. Now that it's gone down to 40 or less, guess what, it's still fixed at 76, so we're supporting the "poor" oil companies, which the biggest of them is state-owned. There's an alternative fuel, similar to LPG, only that it is compressed natural gas. It's really widespread, all cabs run on CNG, and many cars as well. But yet another drawback, this year it went from a quarter the price of the petrol to barely a half, so... We import gas and then use it on cars, it's not that clever is it?