Gas price increase hurts the average citizen

THE EDITOR: It has always been apparent to me that people in authority just don’t think. Stupidity, it seems, is entrenched in the character of a politician.

Imagine the audacity of the man-in-charge to say that the rise in the price of gas will not affect taxi fares. It’s just me but can you follow the logic? A rise in the price of gas affects everything. While this statement was being made, was there a brain present in the room? You raise the price of gas and you raise the price of everything except salaries. Was this taken into consideration when the national budget was being formulated?

What is the sense of haggling with the chicken producers and the maxi taxi owners when they have to bear the brunt of the price increase at the pumps? To provide a service is not free in this country where everything has risen in cost to the consumer. Low chicken prices are good but your neighbourhood poultry depot has to pay the cost attached to bring the chicken to you. His vehicles don’t run on air or water. This would be the environmentalists’ dream but not at the expense of the ordinary citizen making $1,800 a month. An increase of $1.00 in the price of any commodity hurts him the most.

Criticism from all corners of society should have been expected but, apparently, this was not considered. Is there a brain in the House? It scares me to think that there wasn’t one in the near vicinity. I fear that “foot in mouth syndrome” is spreading.

G M J COOPER
Moruga