LexFather

If you thought that a couple of cents raise in fuel prices is pretty annoying we wonder what you’d say if you woke up one morning and saw that prices at your pump increased by 40% overnight! Well, that’s exactly what happened in Malaysia yesterday as the government enforced an increase of 40% in gasoline prices and a whopping +67% in diesel fuel prices. As of Thursday, Malaysians pay $0.87 per liter or $3.30 a gallon for gasoline (from $0.61 and $2.32 respectively) and $3.04 per gallon (from $1.82) for diesel.

According to government officials, while subsidies kept fuel prices in Malaysia among the lowest in Southeast Asia, it could no longer afford funding them as it is expected to cost the treasury more than $14 billion this year.

http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2008/06...as-prices.html

LexFather

Imagine not filling up after work and you go home and go to sleep and you wake up and drive to the gas station and see the price.

Then you drive around and they are all the same.

rominl

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wow, that's a heart attack

bitkahuna

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Welcome to price controls. Only a government can do something that stupid.

Ay-nako

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wow im speechless

Hil

iTrader: (61)

damn that would suck.. but it costs more here still so.. i'd still rather have their prices

Caoboy

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They don't get our wages.

Caoboy

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Venezuela does the same thing. Don't they have some of the lowest gas prices in the world? It'd be nice for us to pay some crazy low price of 12 cents or whatever they are paying.

Vladi

I feel your pain! Last time I filled up a car back home it set me back $120 for full tank or $7,50 for a gallon. So gas in US is still cheap if you ask me but by no means I am justifying constant price jumps.

4TehNguyen

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you wouldnt want that venezuela formulation in your car, its probably terrible

jracerlmn

lol venezuela...

as much as they complain about us, we're one of the few countries that can actually process their crappy oil

RON430

Word is there is a lot of grumbling in India in reduction of subsidies as well. But China is out there helping the world by not only doing nothing on subsidies but the word is that their consumption of oil has increased 25% since the quake. It's a small world afterall.

PhilipMSPT

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I can't imagine what will happen if U.S. gas prices changed from $4.10 to $6.00 a gallon overnight...

gshb

i would go out and buy a ducati...

MPLexus301

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I'll buy a red wagon and tie goats to the front of it.