No fuel: The demand of Living
For the past two weeks, we've been experiencing fuel scarcity in my region and the happenings have been really bad.
I went out yesterday to the only selling fuel station in my area, to buy four littles of fuel. when I got there I was marveled at the crowd. At first, I got demotivated to turn back and head home but the thought of loosing my transport fair just like that humbled me (if I go back, my transport fair for coming and going would be in vain). So I stayed, joined the queue and I spent up to 2hours before getting the fuel.
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The endless queue wasn't my problem, my problem was the price of the fuel. I know it has been like this but is it fair? Is it fair to hike the price because fuel is scarce? *The price was almost doubled from what we used to buy.
This is a major challenge in the economy. Instead of us to cooperate when things are tough, instead of us to team up together in a reasonable manner in making like more simpler in hard times, we are now the ones making it more difficult for people to cope. I know it's a marketing strategy for the businessmen and businesswomen but must people go and run to patronize you?
Still on the petrol issue, I don't know about your area, but in mine, a little bit of increase in Petrol automatically increases the price of everything including the price of eggs🤭... according to people, fuel affects everything🤔.
It didn't stopped there, should we talk about the transporters? Oh! Anytime there's increase in petrol, these transporter see it as a good opportunity to take their national cake by double increasing the transport fair.
The worst situation on this is that, even when the price of fuel had been reduced(back to normal price), it's very rare to see transport fair go back to its normal price. WHY IS IT ALWAYS LIKE THAT?
I remember one certain period that I was traveling a far journey, I calculated my budget and carved out a good sum of money incase there'll be increase in transport fair because we just had a fuel scarcity. Mehn! I concluded because there's availability of fuel, so the price would still be normal but I got it wrong. I ended up paying triple of my normal expenses that day.
Still on the hike of transport fair, I suffered a huge blow again this morning. I was going to buy fuel of N1,000 and I budgeted N300 for to & fro transportation but I didn't know how it happened, I ended up spending N600 for the transport fair. The bikeman took excess advantage of the whole scene and I had to succumb just to have peace.
Well, that's the world we found ourselves. Most of the happenings in our world are caused by us and because these things are favoring some group of people, it's now looking like a normal thing.
Won't it be very okay if everyone stand to adjust and correct some things in difficult situations, instead of hijacking and draining the condition?
So bad💔!
I stop Here.
Thanks for reading
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I totally relate with this and it's very very sickning.
And you'd hear the marketers giving excuses like, " waterleaf price has increased because of the transportation"....waterleaf that the plant at the back of their house?
Funny fact is that most people take it as a joke but what to do. We have no other option but to succumb and have faith
I'm telling you, it's very disheartening how the hike in price of fuel practically affect every single thing. It's just the air that we breath that it has not affected.
Thank you for stopping by🥰
With the way pollution is everywhere...
You never can tell about the air.
That’s the devil of intentional inflation. They raise prices but never bring them back down the criminals. All of this is intentional pain and destruction of economies around the world to try to force change. One of the most important things we all need to do is stand up and say NO! To the bullshit green agenda. Petrol is incredibly efficient and a renewable resource, there isn’t any reason to limit it besides controlling and destroying poor people and businesses.
It's very bad and disheartening and it affects the poor masses so much