Pinky promises

JUST for the Spigot record: In April this year, Petroline SA director Pinky Moabi said: "We hope that fuel prices will drop in Mpumalanga and some parts of Gauteng, because we will be getting fuel directly from the coast of Mozambique, and we know that fuel prices are lower on the coast than in inland cities.” "We hope"? Note also that she said," we know that fuel prices are lower on the coast than in inland cities". Gee, how observant. Does she also know that the fuel prices are regulated by the Department of Mineral and Energy so that prices inland are not too high? In other words, building a pipeline is not going to automatically reduce prices inland. Spigot records Pinky's words of wisdom, not to dampen enthusiasm on this Women's Day, but so we can revisit this little gem when the Petroline pipeline is completed in 2009 ( according to another Pinky promise).