I think this is the number that made almost every Malaysians crazy on 4th June 2008 night. Our beloved Malaysian government decided that it was time to make the people suffer even more by decreasing the subsidies on petrol prices, this made our petrol price increased from RM1.92 to RM2.70, a shocking 40% increase. The kelam-kabut situation Our "reliable" Rail Transit System can be another option for those who don't feel like using expensive petrol
40%, damn it. I roughly calculated how much this will costs me if I pump in full tank for my car. Before the price increase I already had to spend RM75 for a full tank, now I have to spend almost RM100 for a full tank. Wtf…
Thinking about this I become very tulan already. Malaysia got so many oil resources and yet we have to pay so much for the damn fuel. Really Malaysia Boleh.
Pak Lah announced that the price change will be starting on 12am 5th June 2008, this last minute announcement made everyone kelam-kabut. Everyone rushed to the petrol station before 12am just to fill in cheap petrol one last time. Suddenly it was good business for every petrol station throughout Malaysia.
For me I already filled up 2 days before and I just drove for 50km, so I figured that it won’t be economical for me to line up for 2 hours just to fill up.
But the craze to buy cheap petrol still made me ended up in a massive traffic jam. There were traffic jams wherever there are petrol stations nearby. I had a hard time finding a place to have dinner so out of no choice I went to Tesco to eat KFC.
The next day at office, everyone was talking about the damn petrol price. Sentences like: “Wah the petrol price increased again.”, “Mahal-lah”, “next time I want to walk to office liao.” And last but not least “diu…”, can be heard everywhere.
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See how just a simple order from Pak Lah can affect our lifestyles. Pak Lah, I beg you lah, next time please give us some good news. Zero tax on all imported cars maybe?
After complaining so much about the increase of petrol price, I suddenly felt so scared because I am afraid that the government may sue me. So I want to clarify here that the government of Malaysia is the best in the world and they increased the price so that they can use the subsidies saved to help the poor.
The government said that the petrol price will be revised every month, which means the price will still have the possibility to increase in the future. To all of you out there, enjoy your chance now for the “cheap” petrol price before it’s too late.
2 comments:
nice blog. keep it up. Student from UNITEN putrajaya here.
What for increase fuel price but on the other hand provides subsidies to the people?? Isn't like offsetting the effect...
The government likes to make things so complex... I understand that the government would like to give subsidies to those targeted beneficiaries but it's always hard to gauge who are those in needs.. I think people staying in city would need more subsidy than those staying in other states, right? Is there any smarter way of delivering those subsidies... Pending issues yet to be solved.
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