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Fuel.
The one dreaded thing other than rempits that the whole nation of Malaysia face together and a suffer or enjoy in the consequences of it’s unstable price.
A time existed when fuel was cheaper than mineral water at 1.62 for a km, where everybody enjoyed life, so to speak. Cars were blazing, not just from traffic but sales, and motorists were limited to the scum that ride the night and those who have a yearly income of less than RM10,000.00.
One day a rumor spread, of all that it had to be true, the price shot up by almost 30 cents.
We frowned and complained, but it appeared that life went on. Rice boys were still taking to the streets in their poorly modified Wiras and Civics. Flour was still RM2.00 a bag. Life still went on.
Then one gloomy day came.
Again.
This time, the rakyat was really angry. With the help of a disgruntled and vengeance driven ex-deputy Prime Minister, people on foot took to the streets. Like a foster boy in a luxurious toy store, they demanded and demanded.
Nobody understood that some part of the life that went on was from our own fuel being sold to others. Nobody would accept that we were the ones benefiting from, if not all, sales of our own high grade petroleum. Everybody wanted to believe the bad guys, everybody said it was all going to Mercedes Benz cars for ministers, for their fancy staff parties, expensive paintings on the walls of the office. If they didn’t believe it, somebody would eventually make them.
A small shed of light came a few days back.
But I can’t help but be more dissapointed than anyone mentioned in this post combined when I feel bersyukur (appreciative) that crude oil prices are stabling, but all I hear around me is..
"It’s only 15 cents decrease lah.."
Oh what we have become.
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Izuan 08.24.08 @ 5:53 pm