The key challenge for government at the moment is the need to achieve a difficult balance between lowering consumer prices, and high input costs, achieving security of supply and meeting the empowerment needs of Historically Disadvantaged South Africans (HDSA) and the BBBEE requirements. Security of supply is key to South Africa, but the challenge is that there should be a need to balance this with higher costs of producing liquid fuels, in comparison to the past system, which contributed to higher consumer prices.