You have reinforced my observations made a few minutes back. While the UPA can not be faulted completely for fuel price hike, the issue is that they saw this coming and did nothing about it. Like the way, stalwarts C. Subramaniam & Swaminathan led India from a food deficit state to one of surplus thro' their innovative Green Revolution,why does not the UPA take the lead in encouraging development of alternate fuels by funding R&D in key institutions ? At least, in 1 or 2 years, we can totally end our dependency on petrol/diesel if we can locate a cheaper alter- native. What this requires is drive & longer term vision instead of knee jerk reactions from the UPA. At this rate, I see the UPA out of power next year.
