Everyone is still talking about the fuel price...a hot topic among Malaysian. Everywhere you go, people start to make fun of the current fuel hike. Then today read the paper, which stated that there would be an annual rebate of RM625. Now I am not sure how should i react to that. Should I be happy to hear that or relief ? Because I have neither one of those. I am not being such a pain...if you do the math correctly, this rebate roughly around 1 percent. Then I start to ask, what is the logic behind this rebate then....how can it helped to reduce the burden by 50 ringgit a month? Yeah that is right, so that you can use that 50 ringgit to the new hike in electricity.
Why all the time when we did a comparison, it will always be compared to the non-relevant parties? Like our economy....to show how good we are, they would compare with cambodia, indonesia, or other third world country. Why then we did not compare to Singapore, China, vietnam or any other countries? The statistic collected by that logic did not really show how "good" we are but just how lucky that this year did not fallen into a third world country category. Take this fuel hike for an example. "We are still among the cheapest in Asia"....that statement would definitely tells me that we are comparing again to a wrong group. Why an oil producing country be compared to a non-oil producing country? We should be compared to an oil producing countries....Interestingly, I found this actual statistic
UAE - RM1.19/litre
Eygpt - RM1.03/litre
Bahrain - RM0.87/litre
Qatar - RM0.68/litre
Kuwait - RM0.67/litre
Saudi Arabia - RM0.38/litre
Iran - RM0.35/litre
Brunei - RM1.10/litre
Nigeria - RM0.32/litre
Turkmenistan - RM0.25/litre
Venezuela - RM0.16/litre
MALAYSIA - RM2.70/litre
Ohh there we go...We are the highest in the oil producing group..... You do the judgement then.
Needless to speak and needless to say much. Numbers dont lie.....but people do.
Cheers.
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