The government should reconsider the issue, as the current model has made the country's economy dependent on oil prices.

51.4% of the 2005 budgetary revenues came from oil and the indicator has reached 58.4% this year.

If you have this money coming in and you don't have a clear and transparent government system, you will have corruption. It means you will have a very unstable social situation.

In the big oil shocks that really damaged the economy, the tax on the consumer was many times more than that, but that alone wasn't enough. You also had to have people worrying that prices were going higher forever.

Oil prices are effectively a tax and we want a low-tax global economy. I am happier with lower prices, even if the profits of oil companies come down.

This project is hanging by a thread. Chad remains unprepared for the complexities of an economy increasingly dominated by oil.