IT'S very difficult to imagine the government not increasing fuel prices. Especially bearing in mind that the global price of oil is now in the region of US$40 per barrel, while the assumed price set down in the 2005 State Budget amounts to only US$35 per barrel. If fuel prices are not increased, then the government will have to disburse subsidies—which Kwik Kian Gie refers to as "lost potential income"—of Rp4.4 trillio