Diesel price regulation may sound like good news to Classical Economics
theorists but it is going to be bad news for the already inflation hit Indian
people. If the catching up that Diesel
prices have to do is on the order of Rs.14 or something like that to a litre on
a base of approximately current prices of Rs. 55/litre, what this article fails
to highlight is that we are all looking at the basic cost of energy input going
up by about 25% in India. So expect some
kind of overnight hyper-inflation to hit really hard. So far Diesel prices have not been a key
factor in the literally run-away food inflation seen especially in the prices
of OPTS (onion, potato, tomato and salt), that have in most cases risen by
several hundred percentage points. Imagine
when Diesel is the reason, what will happen to food and general inflation. The worst part is – that all this is
primarily due to rupee-dollar depreciation.
The Chinese Yuan at nearly 6.8 to a dollar can buy more cheaper oil for
China whereas the Indian rupee’s roller-coaster depreciation on an already
depreciated base, is not going to make it easy for the Indian Economy to grow. Pity India and Indians who studied at Oxford and do not seem to have understood "Economics" properly!
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