gloomy tgif
Posted: June 6th, 2008 | Author: jennihsurf | Filed under: Driving, News, Rants, Sad, TGIF | Tags: chedet.com, increase of price, lrt, roxy, seventeen summer splash, sunway lagoon, TGIF, traffic jam, Tun Dr Mahathir | 1 Comment »By all means, you may disagree with me because who am i but a middle class working adult.
This is taken from Tun Dr Mahathir’s blog.
Can the Government subsidise? I am the “adviser” to Petronas but I know very little about it beyond what is published in its accounts. What I do know may not be very accurate but should be sufficient for me to draw certain conclusions.
Roughly Malaysia produces 650,000 barrels of crude per day. We consume 400,000 barrels leaving 250,000 barrels to be exported.
Three years ago the selling price of crude was about USD30 per barrel. Today it is USD130 – an increase of USD100. There is hardly any increase in the production cost so that the extra USD100 can be considered as pure profit.
Our 250,000 barrels of export should earn us 250,000 x 100 x 365 x 3 = RM27,375,000,000 (twenty seven billion Ringgit).
But Petronas made a profit of well over RM70 billion, all of which belong to the Government.
By all accounts the Government is flushed with money.
More HERE
Yes i am still feeling the pinch.
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Initially i had plans for a lot of travelling but looks like its all flushed to the drain now. :(
Looks like the Roxy ~ seventeen summer splash @ lagoon tomorrow will be my comeback. Yesterday and the day before that i have resolved to staying at home and not going out altho i had plans to go places, i simply just had to cancel them. If you bump into me tomorrow, camwhore!~
The school holiday’s going to end this week and this means that by next week… the traffic is back or maybe not idk. but i have decided to just take the LRT for all its worth. Driving is still affordable. But Parking isn’t. Sometimes i had to pay RM30 per day for parking alone and season parking is RM450 MINIMUM so go figure. I earn a lot but i REFUSE to let it all away just for parking or fuel or food even. as typical a girl i am.. i rather spend it on clothes :) . Or at least something more tangible and long lasting..
:( sigh. i still feel sad.
The price of food at my place has already increased yesterday. That’s too soon for me to even think that it will happen.
tgif but le sigh.
-J
































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