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For the time being, the government has decided to spend about 1,140 billion yen from the reserve funds in this year's budget to continue mitigating drastic changes in 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 government's plan to use about ¥1.14 trillion in reserve funds to keep gasoline price subsidies
Positive points
Keep diesel and transport relief going, or trucking and logistics will take a hit.
Subsidies are a necessary stopgap, and they beat cutting the food consumption tax.
Without the opposition party's push, gas would already be 190 to 200 yen a liter.
Negative points
Scrap the gasoline tax itself instead of paying subsidies with tax money.
Subsidies just let oil companies and bureaucrats profit from taxpayer money.
Stop overseas handouts and spend on Japanese households first.
This is not a random-sample survey. It covers only comments posted on these YouTube videos, which were classified and summarized by AI. The speech bubbles are AI-written paraphrases of common points, not quotes from actual comments.