It has become an established national expectation that Zambian motorists should simply adjust to escalating fuel prices, as though resilience alone were a sufficient substitute for accountability in public pricing. Yet before one accepts this narrative with unquestioning compliance, it may be prudent to consider that there exists an unaddressed question behind the current pump price, a question whose answer may explain why the ordinary consumer continues to bear a burden that appears increasingly difficult to justify. One must commend the prevailing wisdom that Zambians should simply adapt to escalating fuel prices, rather than inquire why a commodity transported 1,900...
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