WHILE it is true that fuel companies have something to answer for in respect of high fuel prices, so too does the government.
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The latter is quick to attack the former to pick up cheap political points and, ultimately, to take the heat off itself.
But the simple fact is that more than half of the price at the pump comprises taxes imposed on the product by elected government!
Both parties are in a symbiotic relationship - a relationship which works to the mutual benefit of both.
Nothing will change as the government simply generates too much easy money from the product.
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