(Photo: I was with other leaders of DAP yesterday in Putrajaya. DAP SG Lim Guan Eng submitted an open letter to Mustapha for an open debate on energy policy)
How many of us know that LPG retail price increased for another 4.5 sen with effective from 2nd September?
According to today's Sin Chew Jit Poh, the government did not even announce the increment and taxi drivers in Klang Valley were all caught in shock. The increment will cost an extra daily RM2.25 on each taxi drivers based on an average consumption of 50 litres LPG per day per driver.
And on the same day, I was with the DAP leaders to Putrajaya to submit an open letter to call for an open debate with Datuk Seri Mustapha Mohd on national energy policy.
DAP called on the government to offset inflation caused by oil price hike by reducing road tax for diesel vehicles as well as highway toll charges.
Similarly on the same day, the Malaysia SMI Association also issued such call to the government. It's Vice President Li Deming suggested to the government to withdraw all petrol subsidies and allow petrol prices to be fixed by petrol companies.
"This will create competition among petrol companies and consumers will benefit." He said in an interview with Sin Chew.
At the same time, Li also suggested that the subsidies that the government saved could be used to compensate highway concessionaires. All highway users could thus benefit from such compensation.
After reading all these, I really wonder whether our government is listening the the grouses from the people.
Li's suggestion should be seriously considered.
1 comment:
This is the one that DAP should focus on. Not on the increase of the petro price.
Petro price is beyond the government control and we have to be fair to them.
However, there are several points DAP can make use of:
a) the high prices of cars (even proton & perodua)
the removing of the import tax and the whole current automobile policy will benifit the citizen thru another way. this is certainly within the control of the government.
b) the efficiency of the malaysia's operating firms.
many of malaysia firms are not operating effectively given that the cheaper resources such as petrol are there to bring down their cost. i am sure that the public transport operating can be further improve in order to be profitable. government make the right move in my view to stop the appeal of a surchagre from the public bus operator. The same goes to MAS as they are competiting with the airlines from around the world. Name me any airline that operate with such low oil's prices? but MAS is still making noise here and there to impose & increase the surcharge.
the whole oil subsidies are another protection by the government for me. the difference from the system quota is this one benifited all the races that makes the citizens & companies stay in their comfort zone and not thinking of improving. we all take that for granted aren't we?
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