Thursday, June 5, 2008

petrol price increase rm0.70 from midnight

the prime minister of malaysia, datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi announced price hikes for petrol, diesel and electricity. He said the new price for petrol is RM2.70 a litre, effective midnight tonight. The price goes up by 78sen from the current RM1.92, a hike of 40%. Abdullah also announced that the price of diesel would be increased by RM1 from RM1.58 to RM2.58. He also said that Tenaga Nasional Bhd would be raising electricity rates by 18% for homes and 26% for business users. talking about increase of price in petrol, my dad called me to go fill up the fuel as much as possible. so i went around 11.30pm. there are 3 petrol stations at my place which is side by side. once i reached there, there is a massive traffic jam, all cars are not moving. there are cars came from the opposite side, cars went into the petrol station of the way out and also people brought containers to fill the petrol! i got stuck in th middle. everyone don't want give way to me. other cars brought partner with them so that their partner can go to pay first and i am alone so everybody bully me T_T...... i waited almost midnight. it is going to midnight and my heart is beating very fast. suddenly, the left lane is empty. i quickly drive to there and fast as lightning go pay and fill the tank. yeah, i get to save the rm0.70!

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