my government has just announce about the increasing of fuel price

You are so right in what you say... We are now seeing the Darwinist economic system of survival of the fittest... the haves pitted against the have nots... and in past history, that has always led to instability and even to revolutions... I am concerned about the future because of this but have hope that something will occur before the people get to their breaking point. I am hoping that something can be done to put OPEC on notice that it needs to increase production and that it has got to lower the prices... It runs the risk of having all nations gang up on it otherwise as if the price increase the natives will get restless, demand redress from their governments and demand action against OPEC that in the end will hurt OPEC much more than it would have cost to lower prices... The main problem appears to be that OPEC has too many of the bargaining chips... How does one stop the speculation and decrease OPEC's power to gouge everyone in its prices?

Hi again, The best way to strip OPEC of its power, IMO, is to develop alternative sources of energy, so that we don't need oil to make things work. There are heaps of ways to do things without needing oil to do it, or even plant-based sources of oil which are renewable. Hemp seed yields high quality oil that can replace petroleum oil, and hemp will grow in many places that are not viable for food production. And it also produces a high quality fiber that is superior to cotton, and it produces edible forage for livestock. But the petroleum & cotton & pharmaceutical cartels killed the hemp industry about 100 years ago in Western nations, to protect their profits. Anyway, there ARE alternatives to oil, but the corporations which control most economies are making too much profit from it to allow us to develop alternatives. As you say, the rich feeding off the poor. I understand your view about these things causing revolutions. I do believe that many countries risk widespread civil strife if this situation continues, because they are so completely dependent on oil. The cities will then be a dangerous place to live. None of this would matter if we had alternatives. Electric vehicles would make a huge difference, or even just better developed public transport systems. Rail freight is 10 times more efficient than road transport, yet in Australia the railroads are being run down and more transport is being forced onto the roads! I'm sure the same applies in Indonesia, where you have enormous hydroelectric resources. The electric vehicles that we have at the present are very expensive - I'd like to see someone making cheap electric vehicles - I'd buy one in an instant! That would certainly take pressure off the domestic fuel bills.

i also knowing that my country being one of the producer and exprter of petroleum oil. but the problem in here, due to this condition, our government doesn't stop or giving limitation of export petroleum oil to another countries. it seems that the needing of oil in our country being the second concern than gained lots of benefit from exporter petoleum oil. however i also believe that behind the government if we talking about exporter petroleum oil there are some invisible hands who have rules for this matter which made my government can't do anything many thanks for both of you give the opinion in here, dear friends

ours is the same here and I dont kinow think that gavernment can hood wink the poeople

When it is now $3.99 to $4 in my area, I wonder why their government would think that $10 would pacify anyone... They are rather stupid in thinking so.

i still believe there are still other ways to compensate this fuel price increasing beside only just giving cash money to poor people. its really uneducated ways in my opinion cause it seems teach our people to be beggar due to difficult situation anw the pathethic things, the facilities of citizen commitee (people represemtative board) still on the same which means that they still get freely fuel for their transportation. gee, whats on their mind then?! why the poor people should be sacrifice while they still have luxurious facilities? they are really representative board or what? what they representative actually?