Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "End of fuel subsidies hits struggling Nigerians hard | DW News" video.

  1. Subsidies don't really lower costs. They just shift the cost into taxes.
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  2.  @cageybee7221  It forced people to pay for a service they couldn't really afford.
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  3.  @stoundingresults  That too. But a fact of life in the US and Mexico is the price of gas is proportionate to your distance from Texas.
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  4. They don't refine the oil. They try to, but they neither have the equipment or expertise to make gasoline.
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  5. Much of that cost is labor costs getting it from refinery to you. And an undervalued gas station attendant in the states makes as much in an hour as a Nigerian makes in a day.
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  6.  @superspeederbooster  Because it has to be imported. It takes gas to move gas.
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  7. Not really. All the big firms have left due to thieves, arbitrary fines, warzones, and lack of skilled labor.
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  8. It's the trade language because of the tower of babble worth of dialects. Most Nigerians that can read can at least speak broken English.
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  9.  @SeeLasSee  those goons can't even make a rifle by themselves
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  10.  @cageybee7221  making a single rifle can be done in a garage with hand tools
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