Apparently Malaysia Can’t Afford Fuel Subsidies Anymore


Expansion and maximizing use of public transport will help delay the climate crisis. And making non-burp durians, important research work, that.

Dateline 2022-03-14, Carlist.my (yup):

Last week, Finance Minister Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz expressed his intention to review the fuel subsidies currently in place due to the sharply rising global price of crude oil, which recently has exceeded US$120 per barrel (RM503.16), stimulated by the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

A recurring concern of many lately has been the price of fuel, or more specifically how much the price of crude oil has to rise until the Malaysian government is seemingly no longer willing to offer the Rakyat the heavily subsidised RON95 at RM2.05/litre that has been the norm for the past year.

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