| What really hacks me off is that the 'perceived' fuel crisis isn't caused by a lack of fuel - the oil price has gone down on the markets in recent days now that the Katrina damage to the US oil supply has been factored in, so the pump price should slowly follow.
It's the self-appointed fuel lobbyists that jar me. OK so the price of fuel is extortionate, OK so the government is on the take with taxes on it (nothing new there then) and you could put all sorts of arguements together on how badly the supply/demand equation is balanced, and how the government should help the road haulage and farming industry (as if the farming industry don't already get enough handouts). The whole situation could undoubtedly be handled better, but you'd like to think that in a democracy there would be better ways of handling this rather than some jumped up individuals according themselves the right to hold the rest of us to ransom. |