Highlights from the Gulf Today article:

“…A Sharjah based car battery seller said that a dry charged battery of a particular brand which was selling at Dhs60 a year back could be purchased only at Dhs160...”

“…He said that similarly the price of another brand of maintenance free battery has increased from Dhs110 to Dhs229…”

“…The cheap variety of a car battery is available in the market at Dhs160 but one has to pay Dhs205 for the same capacity of the battery if he is buying the product of established brand names…”

“… The price of 20 litres of distilled water which was earlier Dhs12, has gone up to Dhs30, informed another car battery seller…”