Modi’s government has adopted an even weaker stance on another unpopular but necessary decision: fuel-price increases. In order to align Indian fuel prices more closely with world market prices, thereby enabling domestic oil and gas producers to finance exploration and extraction, the UPA government had announced that natural-gas prices would be doubled from April 1.
莫迪政府在另一个不受欢迎但必须的决定上的立场更不坚定：提高燃料价格。为了让印度燃料价格更好地与全球市场价格接轨，从而使印度国内石油天然气生产商获得勘探和开采所需要的资金，UPA政府宣布了一项将天然气价格提高一倍的计划，这一计划从4月1日开始实施。但是，与铁路客货运费的问题一样，最终决定将由莫迪来做。而莫迪并没有做应做之事——尽管他以此批评前任——而是将这一决定推迟到9月。