Independent Mon News Agency
Fuel Price Increase Raises Cost Of Travel
Independent Mon News Agency
December 4, 2004
The price of fuel is slowly jumping up in Southern
gallon of petrol, 2,100 kyat in the
previous month, is
2,400 kyat now. The price of a
gallon of diesel, 2,200
kyat in the previous month, has now
jumped to 2,500
kyat.
“Fuel prices slowly jumped up although the BOC (
Oil Company) under
Enterprise (MPPE) gives oil to people who own vehicles
which have licenses,” said Nai Min Tun, a Moulamein
(Mawlamyine)
fuel seller.
But the Burmese military government Minister of Energy
(ME) reduced sales of oil 50% to
owners of vehicles
registered with the government,
according to car
owners with routes in
“It makes oil prices jump because the oil company in
said. "We are still
enquiring,” he added.
MRTV and The Myanmar Times Journal reported Sept. 27
that the military government
minister of energy
planned to reduce the need for
imported oil, which has
the world community facing the
crisis. Moreover, the
government planned to shift vehicle
engines from using
oil to gas.
“We are afraid of traveling from Ye to Moulamein.
It
costs more than 1,500 kyat per
person. If we compare
it to last year it jumped a lot. We
only had to pay
about 1,000 kyat for that journey,”
Myit Htay, a
traveler, told us.
“We don’t want to collect high from travelers, but if
we do not collect as much as this
price, we cannot
have a route. We have no benefit,”
said a car owner,
who did not want to identify
himself for his own
security.
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