"The plan to limit the use of subsidized fuels or raise their prices will not be effective because the actual problem does not lie on the plan," spokesman of the Executive Board of the Public Policy Studies Institute Salma Ruslan said here on Sunday.
If the plan was implemented nobody could supervise its implementation in the field, he said.
On the other hand, the low-income people would suffer due to the act of certain quarters, he said.
Citing an example, he said high-income people would still have access to subsidized fuels which were actually only sold to low-and middle-income people.
"Who can tightly supervise the sale of subsidized fuels and ensure that subsidized fuels will only go to those entitled to them," he said.
What the government should do was encouraging the use of alternative energy so that the people would no longer worry about global crude oil price hike.
He said alternative energy such as solar energy or geothermal energy had been used very much.
"It is now for the government to find technology so that the energy will be cheap and can be used in mess," he said. (*)
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