Today, for the second time in two months, opposition leader Sam Rainsy wrote to Finance Minister Keat Chhon asking him the following question: Why has gasoline retail price in Cambodia remained practically unchanged (at about 4,000 riels or nearly $1 per liter) over the last 6 months while crude oil price in the international market has dropped by over 32 percent during the same period of time?
Click here to read the full text of the letter in Khmer.
Source: SRP
Click here to read the full text of the letter in Khmer.
Source: SRP
3 comments:
The following is one of the excuses Keat Chhon can give:
The government has been subsidising the cost of petrol all these years, and it is now time to play catch up by not passing on to end users the crude oil price reduction.
SiS
Or, the man of all seasons could, under a KR torture, tell the truth: Greed on the part of those few at the top in business and government who control petrol supplies and prices in Cambodia.
OOOO
Or, we need to protect our
environment from poluters by
keeping the price high. And we
will continue to race the price
until the carbon monoxide drop
to an acceptable level.
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