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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aoch88" data-source="post: 545185" data-attributes="member: 8491">I agree that we cannot use "nett exporter" as the reason anymore someday but before we reach to that point, let's ponder these few things:1. As we are still a nett exporter, our country earned a lot of money from petroleum and I'm not sure if anyone would disagree but the natural resources from our country should somehow be channeled back to it's people and not to specific groups of individuals. The question is, what happened to it?2. It is alright to float and sell at the global market rate but if we compare with other oil producing nations, their petrol are dirt cheap, their cars are also cheap. Why is it in Malaysia that we have expensive petrol, expensive cars, tolls all over the place, high road taxes. It would only be fair to stop subsidizing petrol but at the same time STOP putting a hefty tax on cars, reduce the road tax to a reasonable level or make better roads, remove the tolls.3. People in Thailand might be paying a bit more for petrol but they have good roads, their cars are cheap, the road tax is also cheap and they have much much lesser toll booths. There must be a balance, everything cannot be expensive and even if it does, where did all the money go? I'm all for it if they government wants to abolish the subsidy and follow world oil prices but a F10 535 is approximately RM240K in the UK (inclusive of 20% VAT) but it's doubled here in Malaysia at RM450K-480K. Imagine the amount of petrol you can pump for RM200K.</blockquote>

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