If, like me, you are hopping mad about the most recent petrol price hike here in India, then I urge you to go see this lecture (Flash required) by venture capitalist Vinod Khosla. You can also download his slides (PPT, 9MB).

Go on, watch it. And think about it – Brazil has already done this (and as an aside, they also dumped much of their proprietary software for FOSS), and if they can, why can’t we?