Thursday, September 15, 2005

Whose fault is it anyway?

There's this funny article I read today in the Al Shabiba, it stated H.E. Maqbool; Minister of Industry & Commerce saying "There are no monopolies in the car industry here in the Sultanate". Yeah, and Bahwan doesn't own 50 zillion Toyota Showrooms all over Oman and there's just so many other people offering cars with such affordable prices.

There was a law to dis-assemble all local automobile agents in Oman in order to free up the sector. Did we see anything happen?

Such is also the law of introducing unleaded petrol into every single filling station all over Oman. It was only applied in select stations where the manufactures thought it was feasible. I'll bet this new Shell New Super petrol will have the same case.

People in Oman are rejoicing because now they can use their mobiles without the use of their handsfree kits. It was enforced some time back that should you get caught doing that you would get fined 75 Omani Rials. Now its rarely enforced. Why? As it turns out, the police have a bigger job on their hands of stopping people from driving like maniacs or bumper-to-bumper on the highways.

Whose fault is it, really?

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