Why many countries, especially in SE Asia, subsidize gasoline?

Question

Why many countries, especially in SE Asia, subsidize gasoline?

Answer 1

I'm not sure I've understood what do you mean, but I suppose you are asking why they don't subsidize other kinds of power, different from gasoline.

Well it's very difficult to answer if you're asking this, but I think i may resume saying that the main reason is that who owns some kind of business pertaining to gasoline always manages to stop any effort to convert "dirt" energy based upon dirty sources, which produce pollution, into clean energy, no-polluting energy. So it all depends on economical interests, and their world balance...

(I hope my english is good enough...)