Anti-social measure

Louis Deguara, in his article Steady Hands On The Tiller (October 28), said the burden of the adjustments in energy prices would be shared fairly. I can't agree that this was the case.

The increase in the electricity and water bill was an anti-social measure. How is it that a person who lives in certain comfort, and who consumes the same amount of electricity as a family of four who are much less comfortably off, pays the same amount?

That person is obviously consuming more than each individual in that family. Whatever happened to the polluter-pays principle?

I think the government could have generated part of the revenue from other sources to compensate for the increase in oil prices, such as by combating tax evasion and the theft of electricity and water, as well as raising taxes on luxury products.

And what about alternative and clean forms of energy? Why is it that we still want to depend on the oil industry when we know that the oil resources of the world are decreasing?