Comments on: Ford Fiesta ECOnetic 1.6 TDCi achieves 38.5km/l mark

By: Are You Sure?

Are You Sure? — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 01:46:48 +0000

I feel that’s a wrong perception. The government is ‘subsidizing’ on fuel, and we’re going to be net importer in 6 years. The fuel you save can be sold to other countries with people thinking like you, and the money comes back to Malaysia. What is saddening is that the diesel variety doesn’t come in to Malaysia. After 6 years, you’ll really start feeling the pain of taxes on fuel :)

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By: hadi75

hadi75 — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 04:32:52 +0000

Better quality diesel please……longer service interval……

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By: the driver

the driver — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 02:13:11 +0000

The story about Dr M’s ‘wine for beer’ (selling sweet crude for sour Middle Eastern oil is not the reason why higher quality diesel is not produced. The real reason is simple and it boils down to subsidies. By forcing fuel producers to a fixed price, it trims profit margins that can be used to retool and make changes to the process to produce the better diesel – which can cost millions and is hard to recoup the costs if the price of fuel is fixed (remember it has to do with reducing the sulphur content into the millionth of parts). So which do you want? More expensive fuel (without subsidies) but better quality diesel or cheaper fuel (subsidised) but poor quality diesel. Blame the oil companies, blame the government for playing politics (election year), blame the rakyat on insisting subsidised fuel but at the end its all about profits.

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By: Kat97

Kat97 — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:27:11 +0000

I think this has to do with The government’s business strategy. Diesel quality is kept purposely low because our sweet crude oil is traded with other types of crude oil. Sweet crude contains less sulphur and has better market price than other crudes. Malaysia imports the cheaper crudes to process and sell. Thus the diesel will always be of poor quality compared with euro. Apparently this is way is more profitable than processing our own sweet crude. Well that is my half baked theory.

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By: 4G63T DSM

4G63T DSM — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:49:04 +0000

So the government is still bitching about the amount of subsidies (what susidies?? we produce oil!!), why not do up proper diesel up to european standards and let us have proper new cars without high excise and import taxes.

You save on subsidies, and we save on cars…. and still your normal consumption is 1/2 that of an equivalent petrol car.

but wait..its not going to happen. Why?

These big GLCs, are plenty happy milking the rakyat as it is not to bother changing the status quo.
Why would they bother investing in new engines, when we would still buy 10 year old 1.6 petrol engines?

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By: Leseid Obrut

Leseid Obrut — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 08:20:23 +0000

that’s quite a bold statement though it does make you stop and think for a while…and it actually makes perfect sense…plus our national automakers aren’t capable of producing fuel-efficient engines just yet…let alone turbodiesels…

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By: junaidi

junaidi — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:34:05 +0000

I think its time Fuel companies re-branded their diesel fuel. Name it something else because thousands here still believe that diesel = minyak lorry.

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By: Name

Name — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:33:14 +0000

Battery EV, maybe in the future.. Diesel is the moment now, Petrol hybrids are losing to Diesel alone.

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By: Still Waiting for Parts!

Still Waiting for Parts! — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:14:26 +0000

This will NEVER come to Malaysia as government wants us to use more fuel. More fuel would mean more taxes LHDN can collect from the oil companies. You use this diesel marvel, your fuel bill will become half. Oil companies will get half revenue and LHDN will get half revenue from corporate taxes.

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