End the gas shortage

End the gas shortage

The government must act quickly to overcome the present
gasoline shortage before it gets worse. Cars lining up at gas
stations and traffic snarls in the vicinity are for the present
the main signals of the shortage. Not to be overlooked, however,
is the what the public perceives as the government's inability to
fulfill their needs. The shortage occurs at a time when the
political situation is unfavorable, which encourages
disproportionate speculation.

The lesson to be learned this time is that there is a need for
the government to draw up some kind of emergency plan and a
strategy to explain the problem. Aside from that, we have reason
to be embarrassed because Singapore, which does not have a single
oil well, is capable of supplying us -- a leading member of the
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) -- with
fuel.

-- Bisnis Indonesia, Jakarta