I think that we may lose the argument, but I think we have to talk about gun control.
The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us.
Petrol price is a deregulated commodity, price of which is decided by our oil marketing companies based on input cost and other parameters.
Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.
Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
I have written to Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, asking him to consider 'staggered office timings' for government offices, which will help in decongesting road traffic during peak hours.
If I can save 25 billion dollars in terms of reduction of import, I will be adding one percent to the GDP. By conserving the oil energy by the people, the GDP will become 5. 5 percent, and this will change the economy of the country.
We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact that we will always have poor people around us. So we have had poor people around us. If we had believed that poverty is unacceptable to us, and that it should not belong to a civilized society, we would have created appropriate institutions and policies to create a poverty-free world.
One hundred years ago, people were faced with the choice of learning to read or remaining illiterate laborers who would be left behind as have-nots in a rapidly modernizing world. In the coming century, being able to command a world that will be thoroughly computerized will set apart those who can live successfully in the future from those who will be utterly left behind.
You get a series of super-typhoons into Shanghai and millions of people die. Does the population there lose faith in Chinese government? Does China start to fissure? I'd prefer to deal with a rising, dominant China any day.
A lot of people think Major League's called Wild Thing. As they should.