Dateline 2017-03-14, Cilisos:
Just 3 years ago, Malaysia was still a country with petrol subsidies, but that all changed when the gomen decided they weren’t going to pay for those subsidies anymore. Malaysia then moved to a float system, where the prices of petrol locally would be determined monthly by the prices worldwide.
For the longest time, our Editor-In-Chief had been wanting for one of us writers to write about how these monthly petrol prices in Malaysia are calculated. Sadly, it kept getting postponed either because of something more current or we just forgot. In fact, our saudara at SOSCILI ended up writing about it before us.
With the price of petrol and diesel going up in the past 2 months, we thought it would be a good time to translate their article. But as soon as this writer started researching about the topic, we realised that some major changes are coming where petrol prices are concerned.
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