RON95: U-turn greeted with disbelief

The quick U-turn by the BN federal government on the possibility that RON95 grade fuel in the near future, be only allowed to be sold to certain segments of society, had not managed to calm the nerves of the rakyat.

Instead, the people have gone on the internet to slam the announcement, saying that with the recent price hikes across the board, the number of people ‘going under’ in the budget has increased, and the RON95 limit to the ‘poor’ will only make people go deeper into the red.

“The BN regime has gone deaf (pekak badak),” sums up the comments made by the PAS information chief when contacted Jan 24.

The government it seemed, had totally failed to grasp the goings-on with the rakyat, he said.

“The price of RON95 itself, is already high, as it has been increased several times already in these last few years.

“Unless of course, they can make an iron-clad promise that after this, the gov’t is going to reduce the price of RON95 to RM1.50 compared to what it is now, and make it affordable to the poor, well that would be another thing altogether,” he said.

“I am sure”, he said, “when the government successfully fumbles the country’s fiscal situation again, as what has been done repeatedly every year, the RON95 price would sooner or later be increased, despite the impact on the poor”. - ES