Malaysian government moves to stop fuel subsidy abuse

September 11, 2014

Dateline 2014-06-30, China Post:

 The Malaysian government will set a fixed volume of diesel that gas stations can sell in a move to curb abuses of the country’s fuel subsidy scheme.

 Gas station operators would also need to submit monthly reports of their diesel and RON 95 gasoline sale to the Domestic Trade, Cooperative and Consumerism Ministry, said its secretary-general Datuk Seri Alias Ahmad.

This was among a slew of measures being introduced nationwide starting Aug. 1 in a bid to prevent further abuses of the subsidy scheme.

Alias warned that erring traders would be permanently blacklisted.

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From the Star – Stuck with dirty diesel

September 24, 2009

Taken from the Star, dateline 2009-09-11

TWO weeks ago, PETRONAS announced that it was upgrading the diesel it was selling at its pumps to Euro 2M environment standard as part of its efforts to help protect the environment.

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The Euro 2M standard permits only a maximum of 500ppm of sulphur in the fuel, a huge improvement over the previous standard, which capped sulphur content at 3,000ppm.

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To make matters even worse, we are at least two generations behind immediate neighbours Singapore and Thailand where Euro 4 diesel is widely available.

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Two years later (2004), then Natural Resources and Environment Minister Datuk Azmi Khalid announced that the Government was no longer satisfied with Euro 2 but wanted Euro 4 fuel to be made available this year.

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In the words of a senior Petronas official: “This means that our Euro 2M diesel was seven years late in coming.”

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