COMMENT | Bersatu information chief Tun Faisal Ismail Aziz’s recent Facebook post on the fuel price hike was written to stir anger, not to explain it.

Yet the anger itself is real, especially on the peninsula, where diesel has not risen in one sudden shock but through repeated weekly increases.

The jump announced for April 9 to 15 did not come out of nowhere. It followed a run of increases stretching from late February through March and into April.

People are not responding to a single headline. They are responding to a price trend that has become harder to ignore.

That matters because diesel is not just another pump price. On the peninsula, diesel runs through haulage, distribution, wholesale supply, farms, and construction sites.

When diesel rises again and again...