In this period of fuel scarcity, I hear lots of people saying Nigerian fuel marketers are wicked. They are hoarding fuel, they are heartless etc etc.

Maybe they are not?

Let me give you an illustration say you are a businessman, you sell sardines. You buy your sardine in Abuja for N300. Your customers are in Lagos. They only eat sardine. You go to Lagos. On getting there, you here the market chairman has declared nobody must sell sardine in the market for more than N150.

What do you do? Sell the sardine you bought for N300 for N150? Yes, maybe you want to help them because without your sardine, they will be hungry. But for how long can you help? You will eventually run into debt and out of business. Or maybe you decide to hold on to your sardine and talk to the market chairman to increase the price?

If you choose the last option, you are now a “wicked” fuel marketer!

In this my example, the sardine is fuel, the market is Nigeria, the market chairman is the Nigerian government and you are of course the fuel marketer. No matter how nice or altruistic we want them to be, the pragmatic truth is that the fuel marketers are in business, just like dangote, just like the phone seller in computer village, just like the fish seller. They have to make some profit from their business.
Its easy to blame them but the issue of fuel scarcity definitely doesn’t lie at their feet.







Now, there are other reasons why the fuel scarcity is as it is. It is a different thing if we were addressing these other questions:
- Why we even have fuel scarcity in the first place?
- Why the government is fixing the price of fuel?
- Why we import fuel and why government has not been able to fix the refineries over so many years? (The reason is not one we like to hear)
- In fact, like above and for the same reason, why its difficult to fix power.

Yes there is plenty of politics, but there is also economics, 1+1 can not be equal to 4. Even if we elect the best people in the world, if we don’t accept economic reality of our current situation, we will deceive ourselves trying to make the impossible possible.

Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle states that there is not way to determine the state of what a fundamental system is, only what observations of that system MIGHT look like. There is a fundamental limit to the precision with which complementary variables of a particle can be known. Free will is not the ability to choose anything. It is the ability to make a choice.
Fact: Some individuals are more likely to commit a crime than others. But they are only likely. Not certain.
Can someone explain why infinite regression a bad thing? I personally think it’s fascinating that the universe could gift us with something to keep us infinitely entertained. Why do we have to call the end of regression God? Is it so terrible for God to exist in our heads?
God is the reconciliation of humanity’s collective morality and limited sense of scale.
Real question. If God exists, what is existence?

An easier to understand explanation for the Uncertainty Principle:
Imagine a car moving along a road. If you want to see the exact place where the car is, you must pause time (because it's always moving). You pause time, and you mark its place. While you paused (imagine it like a photo), you CAN'T know its speed. It's a picture. If you want to find out the speed, you must unpause and measure it. But if you unpause, it's impossible to know the exact position of the car because it's moving.



I still think the government is playing with our ignorance assuring people they wont increase the price of fuel. Price increase is bad for our pockets but i fail to see a workaround.

Well except if we go back to subsidies, which comes with a whole new set of problems.