At a media preparation on December 23, MP Vijitha Herath raised this issue.
A petrol liter is sold at Rs. 117 after Rs. 64.41 of expenses included, and for diesel the duties add up to Rs. 28.02 and a liter is sold at Rs. 95, he noted.
A JVP representative said the general population would be taken to the avenues to pressurize the legislature to decrease fuel costs.
Whenever reached, a CPC representative said that as requested by the JVP, they couldn't lessen neighborhood costs, not long after world costs are diminished.
No nation lessens fuel costs, and the benefits earned are utilized for improvement purposes, he said, including that the cash did not go to the pockets of government powers.
Further lessening in world costs
The Central Bank says in a report that world oil costs will stay low in 2016, and the CPC's budgetary circumstance will enhance amid the year.
There will be an increment in the OPEC's creation and Iran's supply because of the facilitating of monetary confinements forced on the nation.
There is a decrease popular because of a gradualness of the Chinese economy and the world economy coming back to regularity, said the CB report.
