Oil Money or Owe Money?

Mar 22, 2026 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh is a strange time we living in, when a “reconditioned” car cost like how a brand-new one used to cost back in the good old days when people actually used to condition their finances before buying things.

Now is a different story. Is oil economy, bai! And apparently oil economy mean every yard must got not one, not two, but sometimes three cars—like is a small car mart open up next to the chicken pen.

Dem boys seh government doing dem part, cutting taxes on lil vehicles so people could afford something decent. But the dealers? Oh lawd. Dem watching demand like hawk watching chicken. As soon as people start running in, price start climbing like it training for Olympics. One man say he went to look at a small car and by the time he blink twice, the price gone up two hundred thousand. He ask if the car learn a new skill while he was blinking.

But the real comedy is the young people. Everywhere you turn—boom!—another fresh driver. Some of dem can’t even reverse properly yet, but dem have loan papers longer than the Essequibo River. Dem boys seh is no longer “learning to drive,” is “learning to owe.”

And the banks? Smiling from ear to ear. Because nothing sweeter than a customer who say, “I gon take it,” before even asking, “How I gon pay for it?”

So now you got people riding round in nice shiny vehicles… but when the gas light come on, is pure panic. Dem pull up at the pump and say, “Boss, leh me get a thousand-dollar gas.” The attendant does look at dem like, “Yuh sure yuh don’t want air in the tyres instead? It might carry yuh further.”

Dem boys seh some of these cars spending more time parked than moving. Not because dem broken—but because the owner waiting on payday, prayer day, or miracle day to full up the tank.

And don’t talk about insurance, maintenance, and loan payments. By the time dem done pay everything, the only thing left in the budget is slack change.

So dem boys seh, in this oil economy, some people ain’t driving on fuel—they driving on faith. And if caution ain’t taken, plenty of dem shiny cars gon end up as very expensive yard ornaments.

Because at the end of the day, bai, is one thing to own a car… and a whole next thing to afford it.

Talk half. Leff half.

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