Harga Petrol Kekal!

Shahrir kata harga petrol tidak akan dikaji semula sehingga hujung tahun. Ini bermakna rakyat Malaysia membayar premium atau berlebihan untuk harga petrol. Rujuk pada artikel yang saya tulis sebelum ini mengenai harga petrol.

Beberapa hari lepas Perdana Menteri kata akan meurunkan harga petrol mengikut harga pasaran semasa dalam masa terdekat. Tiba-tiba Menteri pulak kata tidak akan diubah sehingga hujung tahun. Sekejap kata akan dikaji setiap bulan, kemudian setuju kaji dua kali sebulan, sekarang tidak akan dikaji. Siapa yang lebih berkuasa sekarang ini, Perdana Menteri atau Menteri Pengguna? Bolehkah dipercayai kerajaan sebegini? Cakap berbelit-belit atau sengaja nak simpan strategi sebelum hari mengundi di Permatang Pauh.

Mana prinsip kerajaan kita ini? Menteri-menteri apa nak kisah harga minyak, kereta kerajaan sediakan, minyak kerajaan bayar, bahkan kereta juga ada pemandunya, yang susah kita rakyat Malaysia ini yang tidak mendapat faedah seperti Menteri dan pegawai tinggi kerajaan yang mewah dengan duit titik peluh rakyat, lihat sajalah apa yang terbongkar di Terengganu - kos penyelenggaraan kereta sehingga beratus ribu, itu belum lagi ambil kira bayaran penggunaan petrol...

Retail Petrol Price

The global Crude oil price are now trading between USD112 to USD114 per barrel. The basis for the Malaysian retail petrol and diesel prices were calculated when the crude oil price was at USD136 per barrel.

Based on my simple and stupid calculation:

Crude oil price at USD136 = retail petrol price RM2.70,

Therefore, at USD114; 136-114=22; 22/136=16.18%;

2.7-16.18% = 2.7-0.44 = 2.26; price of retail petrol should be RM2.26/litre.

At USD112; 136-112=24; 24/136=17.65%

2.7-17.65% = 2.7-0.48 = 2.22: price of retail petrol should be RM2.22/litre.

The government should reduce the retail petrol and diesel prices immediately before the by-election to gain support, lets not wait until September 1st.

Agressive ACA

Sorry I have been away for quite awhile, it was school holidays and it is time to focus my attention to my children for a while.

For the past couple of days its has been a rainy days here in KL.

And also the past couple of days there has been a lot of breaking news; two Director General of government department has been charged in court for bribery and several Perak state official being detained for alleged corrupt activities. The ACA (Anti-Corruption Agency) has been very active lately, but they are suspiciously too active. I wonder why?

I hope it is not just during these by-election fever in Permatang Pauh.

Lately, everything seems to be very suspicious. Power hungry politicians will not stop at anything...

Oil Price below USD113

Crude oil price is now below USD113 per barrel, Malaysian are now paying a high premium for our retail petrol and diesel prices. As i mentioned in my earlier blog we were given 30 sen discount when Crude Oil Price was above USD136 per barrel. Now at USD112 we are subsidizing Petronas instead of govt subsidizing us.

Why wait until 1st of September?

When the govt decided to hike the retail price by 41% and 63% for petrol and diesel respectively, they never wait until the end of the month, but when they want to reduce it, they squeeze us as much as they can!

Anyway, the damage has been done, with the drastic and huge increase, the increase on several expenses like food, cost of transport is now irreversible. No way the retailers, food sellers, transport operators will be willing to reduce their charges. Inflation will remain high...

If the govt has been very discreet and tactful when they decides the quantum of increase of retail petrol and diesel price, we would not suffer this much.

ITM - UiTM

Last month i touched on ITM before it was upgraded into UiTM. And with the upgrade the current students lost their benefit of free meals four times a day, instead it was replaced by a meal coupon for RM4 per day. Everybody was so engrossed with the name change - championed by the so called fighters for the Malay rights, UMNO - that they did not realised that we had to forego the Bumiputeras' benefit we had enjoyed since the sixties when ITM or RIDA was first established, and at the same time we had to allow KTAR to be upgraded into UTAR.

Few years back we had also opened our doors at MARA junior college to non-Bumiputera, also championed by UMNO. We, Malays are very tolerance and able to let go of our special privileges. We had already given up the universities admission quota system for meritocracy system.

Now, there are proposals to open our only Bumiputera higher education institute to non-Bumiputera! To me this is too much. There are already 20 public universities open to all (some open to international students) and there are quite a number of private institutions and universities, where the students have to struggle with meritocracy.

First they ask for 10%-20% quota, afterward 30%, later on based on meritocracy, then what is left for Bumiputera?

As an ex-student of ITM, I don't agree with the latest proposals. All ex-student of ITM had benefitted from ITM; corporate leaders, politicians, top government servants, businessmen. During my time it was very competitive with only four public universities, UM, USM, UPM and UKM and we had to compete for scholarship funds. The only alternative for us was ITM - the saviour for the hardcore poor and up to lower middle class family.

Keep your hands off UiTM, the last Bumiputera's bastion...

Multi-ethnic society of Malaysia

Over the weekend, the Bar Council's stubborn decision to to proceed with an open forum on Islamic conversion issues are finally comes to end after thousands gathered and storming the venue. The current president is really very stubborn, unheeding advises from DPM, several Ministers, govt agencies and NGOs. They only stop with the intervention of the peoples power, storming into their venue.

The Bar Council are not stupid, they are after all lawyers, yet they are very stubborn people, unlike UMNO who are ignorance.

Lately there has been several spate of calls for cancellation of concerts by international artistes after the cancellation of Inul's (the dangdut queen) concerts in JB and KL. Some times we need to de-stress ourselves, i don't think it should be an issue if we abide by the rules, Islamic or otherwise. Impose rules on dress codes, ethics on the artistes and the audience must at all time behave. To observe the prayer times and the azan. We need to be more tolerance living in a multi-ethnic society.

It is so sad to see that after almost 51 years of independence we are still racially divided...

Ujian pertama Sistem Kehakiman

Sekarang ini kita tunggu dan lihat sistem keadilan dan kehakiman kita yang baru-baru ini dikatakan telah mengalami perubahan setelah tamat era Che Det. Ini adalah ujian pertama untuk sistem kehakiman setelah pihak kerajaan membayar pampasan kepada hakim yang dipecat semasa era Che Det.

Kita lihatlah hujah siapa yang lebih kemas dan tersusun, bentangkanlah fakta-fakta masing-masing dan kita akan lihat siapa yang berbohong.

Pihak pendakwa mencadangkan jaminan RM20,000 dan paspot diserahkan kepada mahkamah tetapi Hakim telah membenarkan DSAI dibebaskan dengan bon peribadi sebanyak RM20,000 tanpa penjamin dan tanpa perlu menyerahkan paspotnya kerana percaya DSAI takkan melarikan diri.

Kita tunggulah pada 10 September depan di mahkamah tinggi, semoga pada bulan Ramadhan jangan ada yang berbohong... "kurang pahala puasa tau...."