Thursday, June 21, 2012

Ending fuel subsidies, the good and bad

Developing countries of Asia and Africa are coming under increasing pressure to balance their budgets by cutting fuel subsidies. Resource-rich states, too, are pressed to end subsidies as they distort markets. Proponents of alternate energies blame fuel subsidies for discouraging development of new products.

Subsidies are essentially the government buying energy at market prices and reselling it back to citizens at lower prices
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