By just spending RM20 at any Petronas Station, you will automatically qualify for one entry. No contest forms required, you just need to use your credit card, debit card or charge card, Smart Pay or Kad Mesra. The contest ends 31 January 2009.

I have a better idea for the next contest, if they have plan for more.

Why not you ditch the BMW and the Honda Hybrid and all the other expensive cars and just give cash instead. Make them in smaller amounts with the max of RM50K and the min of RM1K. This way more people could win and there will be more happy people on the streets. In a way, this will make the roads safer. (Ha .. ha .. just ignore the one with happy, streets and safer )

Why not? Why not give more than restrict it to only 124 winner per month? Think of it, if more people are happy with Petronas, do you think they will visit other petrol stations anymore? In times like this, we need something that can cheer up the people.

Anyway, all winners of the Contest will be selected via a pre determined electronic selection system (subject to terms & conditions as determined by PETRONAS).

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p/s Aku di Prai sejak Selasa. Malam tu bermalam di Sungai Petani. Semalam pula check in di Sunway Seberang Jaya.

A lot of people complained offline and also online. Most of the bloggers I know said that he should not have made a drastic decision like that. The 40 per cent increase will definitely bring hardship as the price of goods will go up. If there’s no other choice, he should have raised it at a smaller rate gradually. Then he announced that a RM625 rebate will be given per year to owners of cars of 2000cc and below to offset the increase.

If he had listened, he wont need to pay the RM625 until next year.
If he had listened, he wont have problem to bring down the prices of other goods now.

The only reason I can think of is that he dozed off while the rest of Malaysia is complaining.

But now, there’s another problem with the fuel price. About 3 – 4 years ago, we were only paying RM1.52 when the price is about USD50. Now it is about USD48, why should we pay RM1.92? And what about the prices of lubricants. They did not go down at all. WTF?

Update 20081206 12.10PM : I am quoting this from The Star

At this level, the market price for RON 97 grade petrol should be about RM1.30 per litre, which is 60 sen lower than the RM1.90 per litre Malaysians are currently paying, the analysts said.

Based on a consumption estimate of 27.5 million litres per day, this translates to roughly around RM16.5mil in extra revenue a day for the Government.

We are paying more, and they are making money. So, where does the money goes to now?