Will you be willing to pay more for cleaner fuel?

While debating on this or any other issue related to price hike of petroleum fuel one need to keep in mind is that oil business is not like other business. Majority, rather all the petroleum product marketing companies are government company. India has seen the consequence of the petroleum product marketing private company druing high price rise in crude oil stock. The company stopped selling petroleum product during that perion and there after. Which means private sector is not geared up to take the jolt of unpredictable price rise in crude oil stock. Therefore, all the pricing policy of petroleum product should be balanced such that government petroleum marketing can sustain and also requirement of needy people of India is also met.   

In view of above, I feel we should leave both the option to the customer whereby the environment concerned people can use this fuel with little more price and subsequently over a period of time the other fuel can be abolished from the market.     

As Kumar Swamy said, when we plan a project we always put forward Estimates. But, always, what we see on the execution phase is a cutting corners to remain to the budget or put forward a new proposal for deficet.OR, when a client needs a modification in the plan abruptly, all of a sudden & you decided to reach him out, what we do is to rise the cost. It is what we have here.Hope I clarified my point.

Whether we move on par with international rates or not but it is clearly explained that the cost is due to switch over from Euro III to Euro IV, a much more refined fuel. When better things are made available in the market we need to welcome it rather shrug our shoulder. It is also meaningless to say that we march towards progress. Environmental concern is also one aspect we need to look into.

I don't think there is any loss in paying some more money. This proposed price doesn't include the current Rs 6 per litre loss on selling petrol and Rs 4.06 per litre loss on diesel. The actual price hike needed to cover the cost would have been 3-4 times the proposed increase. Also, cleaner fuel will filter a lot of carbon resulting in less carbon dioxide and less pollution. So these kind of fuels should be promoted thats why, there is no loss in paying some more money for cleaner fuel.