In a coun­try that has seen fu­el prices in­crease by six times be­tween 2016 and 2022, the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ (UNC) cam­paign promise that those prices would fall ap­pealed to many peo­ple look­ing to save on their ex­pens­es.

While much has been said about the fea­si­bil­i­ty of many of the UNC’s cam­paign promis­es, the abil­i­ty to achieve this promise may ac­tu­al­ly have its roots in a sug­ges­tion made by the for­mer ad­min­is­tra­tion.

Since his pre­sen­ta­tion of the 2020 bud­get, for­mer fi­nance min­is­ter Colm Im­bert hint­ed at the lib­er­al­i­sa­tion of the fu­el price mar­ket.