Is This Useful?

There are news of protests and demonstration today.  Open detik.com and you’ll see most of it.  And what is their reason?  The increase of fuel price.  So now 1 liter of premium will cost us Rp.6,000 instead of Rp.4,500.  The question is: what caused the government to do that?  The college-educated students that do the protests should know that the world oil price is rising insanely!!!  If they know that, what will they do if THEY are the government?  I believe that they’ll do the same thing.  Even I will do the same thing.

Things should be straightened-up, but in the short term, all we can do is this.  So, we need to live up with it instead of doing useless protests.  Do the protestants have a better solution?  I don’t think so.  We can nationalize some oil well, but it’ll take time.  We can use domestic oil to cut oil import, but that also takes time and a huge change in bureaucracy.  One thing for sure:  we can’t control world oil price.

So, what should we do now?  I recommend saving program.  If you can live with the current price, that’s OK, but if not, save!  Travel less.  Use less electricity.  Maybe it’s also a signal to GO GREEN.  Use less energy is the main point here, especially fossil-based fuel, because it’s non-renewable.