So, we’ll buy petrol literally of the back of lorries, eh? I say remove all subsidies, improve and extend bus, LRT, MRT, train and becha services, raise taxi fares (have you seen the taxi fares in Kerteh?), summary execution for errant bus and taxi drivers.
Dateline 2014-06-03, Malay Mail:
Putrajaya’s plan to sell fuel at different subsidised rates to different income groups may create a “black market”, PKR’s Pandan MP Rafizi Ramli said today.
The PKR leader said the government’s bid to limit or deny high-income Malaysians’ access to subsidised fuel could end up creating an illegal trade and result in an abuse of the system among those in the lower-income categories.“I worry if this new subsidy system is not refined and openly discussed, when it is implemented in the future, it will create a black market for petrol and diesel that will create a new and larger problem than the existing smuggling because it involves even more people and the public,” the outgoing PKR strategic director said in a statement today.
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