“They shouldn’t blame us. They should blame the culprits.”
President of Pan-Malaysian Lorry Owners Association (PMLOA) Er Sui See said the situation was so bad that “up to 30% of lorries were not moving”. Quote:
“If nothing is resolved by Monday, then we will have to stop work. The drivers are spending so much time and diesel looking for diesel; it’s a waste of resources.”
But, interestingly, immediate response by the minister? Calls in the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) to probe the rampant sales of subsidised diesel by petrol station operators.
Yes, you’re right, that’s his LAST THING FIRST measure.
I’m kind enough not to brand him as a lameduck, but he must aware that, if there is no proper decision by him or whoever his boss by next Monday, the strike might kick-off (you see, I’m trying to make this strike looks professional), at least 6300 Malaysians that I don’t know of will have a long Labour Day break.
Definitely, economy cripples, that’s it.
While all-kind of media-hype is surrounding him, one possible self-conversation might be repeating in his mind now: “I can’t eat, I can’t sleep, I can’t shit, and worse, I can’t admit what I had done wrong, because I’m a MINISTER.”
What, another new issue? The infamous UNTOUCHABLE?
Merry goes around.
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Meanwhile, ShinShin shared this with me. Quote:
“Many thinks the heavy subsidy is the culprit. But, as long as it is heavily subsidised and only allocated to related people, there will always be shortage.”
“In fact, diesel as a commodity is more expensive than petrol in open market.”
An ordinary Malaysian has this thought.
Mr. Minister, what you think?
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Some believe that, this problem is actually not accounted to diesel crisis by nature. But, it’s a problem of, whether the government is willing to provide sufficiently large amount of subsidy.
In other words, as long as the government continues to subsidise sufficient amount of diesel, this problem is solved!
I thought subsidy is the root of everything? ;-)
I have not follow-up much on the development of the diesel crisis, but I am not really surprise that our minister can show such a shallow response, “the culprits”. Duh.
4 months. That’s more than a quarter. What have the ministry done? For all the we know, the rakyat has certainly “done” their part, by running all over the city in search for diesel…
This could be another issue, but I would definitely want a copy of the video of the parliament debating over this issue and see how our minister respond to the poundings.
on d issue of diesel subsidies, some parliment bunch of clowns and govt policies on illegal immigrants, i feel our govt are made of ruckus of “money making of rich gettin richer” politicians with no sense of ideas on repurcussion on d economy. Have they come to the ground and have a look at wat is the condition of many AVERAGE MALAYSIANS, we r bunch of debtors!!! n i believe some1 tried to make that point of suicide at JPM!!! N how could educated malaysian like us could elect a narrow minded parliment speakers to represent our important issues??
Well, I still have the same comment.
If Shafie Apdal blamed it on the SMUGGLIG issue, then he must go deep into the root and solve it.
But give more excuses and find more troubles without bringing out the root won’t help solve this diesel issue, not to mention that 4 months, 4 years also a never ending story.