It's a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyone, from the highest ranking officers to the lowest, to take public transport every Wednesday.

We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.

Saving petrol is saving India's money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this.

I am not playing for any lobby. I am playing for national lobby. I will ignore lobby. Anybody has useful suggestion, they can give it to me. The history will speak about it.

The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us.

Petrol price is a deregulated commodity, price of which is decided by our oil marketing companies based on input cost and other parameters.

Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.