To get an idea of the price we pay for access to energy, we must first take a glimpse at the major players involved in energy logistics. For the moment I restrict my scope to solid, liquid and gaseous fuels. I list the entities involved along with a few examples from India below in no particular order of importance.
1) Governments of India and oil exporting countries.
2) Private and Public sector Companies involved in exploring and extracting the energy resources. For eg Coal India, ONGC, Reliance, Cairn Energy are a few Indian entities that comes immediately to my mind.
3) Private and Public sector companies involved in converting the energy resources to usable form and marketing them. For eg Indian oil, BPCL, HPCL, Reliance are a the most prominent I can think of from India.
4) The transportation companies involved in transferring resources- The Indian railways, merchant navy and tanker fleet.
5) The middle men involved in whole sale and retail of fuels.
6) The labour force involved in energy transportation.
7) And finally the Consumer.
An unbiased introspection of the first five elements in this list would give an idea of who gets the lions share of the price we pay for a litre of diesel.
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