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Consumers fault ERC's hefty fuel price increase

A petrol station attendant fueling a car. Consumers are outraged by the sharp price increase.

Kenya: Kenyans could for the first time understand why the season of cheap oil is over following the unprecedented price hikes over the weekend.

Amid soaring public outcry following the upward price reviews, the Energy Regulatory Commission has now told The Standard that a sharp jump in the international pricing of petroleum products that happened on February 1, without a corresponding downward adjustment, is to blame for recent hefty hike.

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