Shibli advises people to use less fuel to combat hike in fuel prices.
As consumers’ spending power faces yet another setback as a result of a new fuel price hike, Federal Minister for Science and Technology Shibli Faraz has advised them to make better use of their money “To battle rising fuel prices, use of “as little fuel as possible” is recommended.
The minister told journalists at Parliament House that the situation would have been different if the country had produced its own oil and had oil wells.
“Inflation and Covid-19 are global issues, so life cannot be normal during these difficult times.”
“Fuel prices on the worldwide market have risen to $95,” he explained. In order to provide relief to the masses, the administration has not put levies on fuel costs, he noted. “Food and beverage subsidies are our government’s top priority,” he added.
He stated that the Ministry of Science is attempting to lower electricity consumption in order to “minimize the government’s oil imports.”
The government announced an unprecedented price hike of up to Rs10 to Rs12 per litre in all petroleum products for the next fortnight, ending February 28, “to pass on the impact of higher international oil prices” and the imposition of an additional petroleum levy, as promised to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
“We have proven that we can manufacture EVMs and we have made them,” the minister stated of the electronic voting machines (EVMs) during a media interaction on Wednesday.
“The opposition was disseminating false information about the government bringing its own machine. We don’t have a machine.”
He went on to say that the government’s goal was to make elections more transparent.
