Dear Editor
The latest petrol price jump was, if the statement made in its justification is true, made in the attempt to equate petrol price with the current charges made in our neighbouring states.
Sweet, but not very thoughtful, surely,

Taking the size of Namibia in comparison with our neighbours, the varying distances which travellers must cover, do not bear favourable comparison.
Doesn't this approach gain any consideration?
And Angola, with its far lower price per litre cost? Isn't Angola a neighbouring state? Why did this piece of mathematical work take this into account?
The bottom line must be that with inflationary pressures increasing, a more defensive approach would have assisted the economy and those who live by it and in it rather more.
Rather, could some less overt charge be raised to ease the widespread financial pressure?
Gas-guzzling traveller
Windhoek