Saturday, February 05, 2011

Gas prices

For the first time since I've arrived in Doha almost 5 years ago the Government has raised the gas prices. It was a massive increase, around 30 to 40%! Oh well I guess the government-subsidized cheap gas wasn't going to last forever.

It's really brutal now, supreme is now $0.27 a litre! I at least take some small consolation that I usually use premium at $0.23 a litre. Even then though it costs at least $9 for me to fill my car.





:-)

3 comments:

M Shoaib Sheikh said...

Shoot !

Monalisa said...

i'd lived in Qatar for quite a long time too. There were things i was happy about and things that always disappointed me out there. Would you like to have a look at this article of this mine? http://monalisagonewild.blogspot.com/2011/02/happy-people-off-ground-art-of-keeping.html

Anonymous said...

This is a relevant article by a Qatari writer you might be interested to read:

http://inci-qataria.blogspot.com/2011/02/moral-grounds-of-public-policy-design.html