When oil was selling at US$120 a barrel the Guangzhou Government instituted a 1.00 rmb surcharge on every taxi ride. When oil dropped to US$70.00 a barrel the surcharge was removed? No Way! Almost one year later and the surcharge remains. This situation cries out for a consumer advocate, an ombudsman, to bring about an immediate termination of this outlandish tax.
This post was put up June 21, 2010. On June 24, 2010 the Guangzhou taxi surcharge was raised to 1.5 yuan with oil still at US$70 per barrel. This is unreasonable and an abuse of the consuming public.
I remember such a saying in one film:raising the price is geared to international oil price standards but remaining the price is considering the reality of China.How similar the taxi surcharge is! The taxi companies and the government have put the benefit into their pockets.Now you want them to give up the benefit?No way.Unless you get the power(not right) to order them to remove the surcharge.