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At the cabinet meeting on the 30th, the government decided to spend 1,148.1 billion yen from the reserve funds in this year's budget to continue for the time being the drastic change mitigation measures such as curbing gasoline prices that are being implemented in response to the situation in the Middle East.
Japanese public opinion
Reactions in the comment sections of related Japanese TV news videos on YouTube.
Positive / Negative toward: the 1.15-trillion-yen reserve fund for continuing gasoline price subsidies
Positive points
Keep the subsidy going, at least for transport, logistics and diesel.
Without it, gas would cost much more, so the subsidy is actually helping.
Negative points
Just cut the gasoline tax instead of paying subsidies with our own money.
Subsidies just recycle our taxes, and oil companies seem to profit anyway.
That money should go to EV development, renewables or food security instead.
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