Rosnani: No price hike for new Euro II fuel
We have good news and a small piece of bad news. Low-sulphur fuel will be available in April onwards without any price increases. The new low-sulphur fuel would have 0.05 percent sulphur content, complying with Euro II fuel standards, down from 0.15 percent in petrol and 0.3 percent in diesel.
“My view is that oil companies should be able to absorb any extra cost in coming out with lower sulphur fuel. They are multinationals which are already meeting certain international standards for the European Union and other advanced countries, so now that we want to introduce this fuel here, they should be ready to provide it,” said Department of Environment director-general Datuk Rosnani Ibrahim.
Rosnani further adds that Euro IV will be implemented in four years time in 2011, but that will most likely come with a price adjustment. Of course, who knows how many times fuel prices would have been raised in four years time, what’s another price hike?
So we’re not looking at a fuel price hike come 1st April 2007, but we won’t be seeing any reduction in prices either. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi says the government cannot reduce prices even though oil barrel prices have gone down because the global crude oil price is still unstable.
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March 28, 2007 @ 2:29 pm
thats great news! no extra burden 4 the poor peoples.
March 28, 2007 @ 2:41 pm
How about diesel? When are we gonna get better refined diesel?
March 28, 2007 @ 2:46 pm
0.05 percent as well for diesel.
March 28, 2007 @ 2:57 pm
“the global crude oil price is still unstable”
Unstable my A$$. When they want to raise the price, are they waited until the damn price become stable (reached a plateau)?
March 28, 2007 @ 4:01 pm
Quoted My Boy
“Unstable my A$$. When they want to raise the price, are they waited until the damn price become stable (reached a plateau)?”
Confirmed.. As long as the crude oil price increase, they increase the fuel price.. Y not wait until it stable at high value, then only increase our fuel price?
March 28, 2007 @ 5:06 pm
hey paul..
how come i can’t see any of your images?.??..
is it just me? but i can see the advert images fine.
March 28, 2007 @ 5:15 pm
best way to go is probably diesel in the near future.
March 28, 2007 @ 5:22 pm
Congratulations! Thanks Dtk Rosnani. It makes sense as barrel prices have dropped but the pump prices haven’t. With all those profits, they shouldnt raise prices.
March 28, 2007 @ 5:30 pm
familyman: im not sure why. might be an issue with shell’s proxy server. anyone else having this problem?
March 28, 2007 @ 6:03 pm
Good to know that we are gonna get higher quality fuel at no extra cost. Hopefully our dealers will be able to bring in more diesel vehicles soon. Well, the question is how much time do they need to consider a “stable” price? Anyway I do not expect the government to drop the price anytime soon.
I was thinking why not our country adopt to pricing based on market situation. But on 2nd thought it might be best to have a fix price daily for better business planning and a stable running cost estimation.
March 28, 2007 @ 7:17 pm
easy there MyBoy… LOL
btw, hev seen that pic before… errr Paul, is that your car pic??? sorry out of topic…
March 28, 2007 @ 7:38 pm
when something goes up, it must come down again!
but not in Bolehland especially fuel-related(petrol, diesel, gas, minyak tanah & etc.) pricing!
March 28, 2007 @ 8:22 pm
forget about prices going down. The prices will never go down at all
March 28, 2007 @ 8:57 pm
Petrol price up up ole …….. that is he VVIP reaction, rakyat biasa are sigh tiou, give RM 20 disocunt on road tax per year, increase toll and petrol that can add up to thousand!
March 28, 2007 @ 10:23 pm
Waste of time, still plays big roles on global warming with new fuel. There’s more cleaner technology available, due to certain reason on business & politic they wont get us there.
March 28, 2007 @ 10:49 pm
ANyway, is this the picture of your car, PV6 ?
March 28, 2007 @ 11:15 pm
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Ricc said,
March 28, 2007 @ 4:01 pm
Quoted My Boy
“Unstable my A$$. When they want to raise the price, are they waited until the damn price become stable (reached a plateau)?â€
Confirmed.. As long as the crude oil price increase, they increase the fuel price.. Y not wait until it stable at high value, then only increase our fuel price?
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you’re ABSOLUTELY right! when the global oil price increased, they raised the price the next day. but when it went down, they did nothing! WTF!!!!
March 28, 2007 @ 11:19 pm
Well ppl.. at least the price is not up for having better quality fuel.. should be thankful about it. anyway.. it’s only Euro II.. not latest, but now at least can have it.
Anyway, that’s Paul’s V6…
March 29, 2007 @ 8:10 am
“jtshin said,
Well ppl.. at least the price is not up for having better quality fuel.. should be thankful about it. anyway.. it’s only Euro II.. not latest, but now at least can have it.”
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We are now in the year 2007 and EURO II just doesn’t cut the mustard.
March 29, 2007 @ 8:38 am
Paul, does this development is a positive news for diesel car importers to bring them here since diesel will be much cleaner and more compatible to the continental common rail diesel engines?
March 29, 2007 @ 9:06 am
normaluser,
The EURO II spec is way off compared to EURO IV which most of the NEW continental Diesel engine designed for. Especially sensitive to the one who used Piezo Injector than Solenoid one.
March 29, 2007 @ 9:24 am
Paultan said,
familyman: im not sure why. might be an issue with shell’s proxy server. anyone else having this problem?
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i have this problem too. shell proxy server? meaning please.
March 29, 2007 @ 10:51 am
Paul, as per normaluser question, would ths euro II spec diesel compatible for those new diesel car?
Hoping for small cc diesel cars/mpv to be available for us in bolehland, hhmmm 5 liter/100km plus huge amount of torque@ low rpm(ie..real world rpm)…can’t wait!!
March 29, 2007 @ 2:01 pm
dzat46,
Your MODERN injector will not last long.
March 30, 2007 @ 3:22 am
The future is diesel. But there’s a catch; Japanese cars don’t normally come with diesels. Except maybe for the new ones being launched since 2006 to cater for European market. Contis are at an advantage especially VW/Pugs for small cars. But current engines are tuned for the Euro 4 stds. Maybe a tweaking is needed to comply with old Euro 2s. In the end we get Euro 2 fuel on Euro 4 engines which would reduce performance.
What about Biodiesel then? Isn’t that where we are heading for? Would Euro 4 engines perform as well on Biodiesel? Doubtful as the EU is against Palm based biodiesel and would go for ethanol based, and manufacturers would go for Euro stds.
April 2, 2007 @ 9:12 pm
Agreed. The future is diesel. Even in Korea, there are more diesel vehicles than petrol. All variants of Korean vehicles have diesel models. But here, none. Given a choice, I would convert my mom’s Kia Carnival to diesel if I can find the halfcut here.