During his Sunday briefing for BN leaders, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said: 'Lack of information on the government's move to raise the petrol price caused some people not to understand the rationale ... and the opposition has taken advantage of the situation to criticise the government'.

I cannot agree with this. Ordinary people like me just cannot understand why that after making profits from the global rise in petrol prices, the government cannot use this extra profit to absorb the cost of rising fuel prices.

Just look at our oil producing neighbour, Brunei. The extra profit they made because of the world oil price increase was used to continue subsidising the people. This is a noble way of a caring government.

I bet that the spiralling prices of things as a result of the 30 sen increase will cost Malaysians more than the RM4.4 billion alleged to be saved by the government.

And please PM, do not associate the people with the opposition whenever they criticise the government. For sure, the government is not always right. The oil belongs to all Malaysians and therefore it is appropriate for them to voice out their anger and disagreement when they see things are not being done properly.