Was it a mistake that you called yourself - a Malaysian
- stupid ?
Actually, the stupidity continues, as those Malaysians owning
cars with Singapore License Plates - {and commuting daily to earn
Singapore Dollars, and paying also Malaysian Taxes} - also cannot
purchase petrol at all petrol stations within a 50 km radius from
any border crossing.
It will be interesting how the stupidity will be resolved to
help those Malaysians who are bringing in the high valued Singapore
Dollars into Malaysia, which has been fuelling the rapid
development of Johor compared to all the other states except
Selangor.
Will it not be less stupid for the Malaysian Government to bite
the bullet - like the Indonesian President Bambang Yudhoyono - and
simply increase fuel prices to international levels, and hand back
the profits annually in the same manner as the MIW Government
in Singapore ?
Has this policy been thought through clearly, or was it a knee
jerk response to pacify the growing perception of Malaysian disgust
at losing Pedra Branca to Singapore ?
By not allowing petrol to be sold to cars with Singapore Number
Plates - how is the Badawi Government planning to encourage
Singaporeans investors to help the Iskandar Project to take
off ?
Driving into the Iskandar Project and not being able to return
to Singapore, and exposing one's stalled cars to robbers - that
will be a smart prospect to be promoted for Singapore investors to
transfer money to help with the project.
Idwar - are the Malaysians generally stupid, or are you simply
stupid in not pushing your government to stop subsidising the fuel
prices to such an extent, but to adopt more progressive methods in
helping Malaysia to develop ?
The whole affair need not have developed into this sorry mess
that has affected the Malaysians more then the Singaporeans.
Malaysia should consider herself lucky that if a Singapore car
should fill up a full tank, he would have travelled a fair
distance, and would have spent MORE then what is given in the
subsidy for the full tank.
Afterall, how many Singaporean cars can top a full tank, when
the gas tanks are three-quarter full before leaving Singapore ?
