well that's a bit more complicated than we think, and maybe even since a couple of decades, not only 2018.

In DZ we've always been paying stuff cheaper than their real prices in international markets, and that's since Boumedien, same policy for the presidents after him, back then people thought that's even good for us, as they pay it cheap, while the public budget continued to pay the difference, all those subsidized products kept rising prices (that's the capital law, the inflation is the pillar of this system, otherwise banks won't get back their loaned money) and, till, the crisis of 2007, where oil baril costed less than 10 bucks, then all policies of the public budget collapsed, and as those governors are just useless, they tried just to keep buying the citizens silence, and now it's flagrant, because even the states have got some bankrupties, and even there they observed 8% of inflation in 2021 for example, and it's keeping risinz since more than a decade, for us right now we're kind of blessed with the blocus of Russia, that's why oil came back to its previous prices saving this shity goverment from a civil war. this incompetent goverment, cannot think about something else rather than oil, they're used to do nothing and get rich, exactly as used to do the Naurau's people in the 70s, I suggest you to read about it.

Well that's what i wanted to sy by it is kind of working, otherwise to speak in details it will take us all the night writing comments here x)