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Malaysian taxis to get petrol subsidies

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Teksi Gila Savvy Sedan

Minister of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Datuk Shahrir Samad has announed that the government has decided to give further subsidies for petrol to petrol-fueled taxis. This should help taxi drivers out abit, though most taxis in the Klang Valley area use a higher amount of NGV rather than petrol. This move will likely benefits taxis running outside of the Klang Valley. However no timeline on implementation was announced as he said the government needed some time to develop the taxi petrol subsidy system via mechanisms like fleetcards.

11 Comments »

  1. MisterBenjo said,

    July 12, 2008 @ 1:45 am

    ehhehe why use old picture?isn that savvy sedan.

  2. azrai said,

    July 12, 2008 @ 6:42 am

    Some irresposible taxi driver will make something out of this. just like those fisherman. the true crap is the consortium. They make a lot of money getting their permit from the LPKP. Cronisme.

  3. melvin.foong said,

    July 12, 2008 @ 9:26 am

    I like the picture :P

  4. auctioncenter2u said,

    July 12, 2008 @ 10:06 am

    Just kidding maybe only GILA TAXI will get the Subsidies

  5. szw said,

    July 12, 2008 @ 10:56 am

    we wouldn’t know wat taxi driver will do

  6. lol xD said,

    July 12, 2008 @ 12:18 pm

    They will use the taxi to drive their family around.

  7. mokkf82 said,

    July 12, 2008 @ 1:14 pm

    Ya right, the next thing we going to see is the taxi drifting competition at the midnight. most of the passeger come out will be vomiting after reaching their destination. Ha!~

  8. mystvearn said,

    July 12, 2008 @ 6:34 pm

    Hmm, with this it will be like one or two years before taxi’s get any benefits

  9. chanel said,

    July 12, 2008 @ 8:20 pm

    in the era of a flip-flop government …….do expect a flip-flop decision as well as unwise decision

  10. Roti Naan said,

    July 12, 2008 @ 11:25 pm

    what?!! I hope this is not gonna to be another half-baked idea from the govt.

    i suspect this would mostly benefit the cronies and the ppl with “cable”. I mean, since when the GOVT hears from the the dear Rakyat?

  11. rakyat jelata said,

    July 14, 2008 @ 8:44 am

    memang lor…those politicians…reason for them joining politics is totally for this kind of matters…money sucker…and we rakyat derita..
    euf is enuf…

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