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Andrei Kabanau: Privately I will be behind the wheel today at 7 p.m. and honk

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Andrei Kabanau: Privately I will be behind the wheel today at 7 p.m. and honk

In this way the blogger is to express his protest against increased petrol prices.

Andrei Kabanau said about that to “Salidarnasts”.

- Increase of petrol prices is to be made on the sly, once in 2-3 months, in order to link the petrol price to the US dollar exchange rate, – the interlocutor said. – The difference really seems to be a little one. Those who had managed to fuel their cars, who was not too lazy to wait in a long queue, have saved 20,000 per tank. It is a bottle of beer or a pack of cigarettes. After the protest of car owners in 2011, the authorities added to their armoury a gradual and undistinguishable price hike. However, when one considers the total price hike over the year, it is a sensible increase.

Andrei Kabanau attracts attention to the fact that though our prices are much lower than European ones, the income level of the population should be taken into account:

- The fuel is somewhat cheaper in our country (by average 40%) than in the neighbouring countries. But let us compare the salaries then and now, – he continues. – But as long as prices are growing slowly, and people keep silent. There is a protest capacity of the motorists, but it is “trolled against” and dispersed in the Internet. Special services have gained experience and work effectively. They divert attention of the population, make them spend their time at forums, into the groups controlled by them. Instead of expressing displeasure in offline space, Belarusians vent their resentment in endless “online holy wars.”

Personally I will be behind the wheel today at 7 p.m. and I am going to honk. Just so. I will greet road users. A honk does not bind to anything. But if there are 600,000 of us, we will be heard.

We remind that in the end of 2013 drivers protested against an auto tax, and they honked massively in Independence Avenue at a certain time.

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