The government will think of ways to ensure that the increase in fuel prices will not affect the rakyat, Finance Minister II Johari Abdul Ghani said today.

He said this in response to the possibility of oil price increasing to US$100 per barrel.

"The mechanism is more or less already available but we will think about it later and announce it when the time comes.

"For now, the prices of fuel are quite reasonable so we leave it (the mechanism) for now," he told reporters in Kuala Lumpur today.