Ever since the Malaysia-Singapore causeway opened on April 1, there have been a few photos of Singaporean vehicles performing amusing antics while refuelling at Malaysian fuel stations.
But this one in particular was a little different – it showed a Singaporean-registered Toyota Estima being refuelled with a yellow nozzle, which at this particular fuel brand indicates RON95 fuel.
Foreign-registered vehicles are actually not allowed to buy RON95 in Malaysia. This rule was put into place on August 1, 2010. This is because of the higher tax-funded subsidises provided for RON95 users, which are meant to go to Malaysian motorists only. So cars like this Singaporean-registered Toyota Estima can refuel in Malaysia but they are supposed to be buying RON97 or RON100 only.
RON95 is currently priced at RM2.05 a litre in Malaysia, significantly cheaper than RON97’s RM3.91 a litre price. As a comparison, 95 currently goes for around SG$3 (RM9.31) a liter in Singapore, while 98 goes for SG$3.47 (RM10.77) a litre.
Other than the no RON95 rule, there are other measures in place to discourage Singaporean cars from refuelling with subsidised fuel in Malaysia. There is a Three-Quarter Tank Rule, where under the Customs Act 1960 of Singapore, a car leaving the island state must have a minimum of three quarters of the tank full.
The three-quarter tank rule has a fine of SG$500. It’s not really known what is the ‘punishment’ for a Singaporean vehicle buying RON95 fuel in Malaysia. There was hoo-ha back in 2019 where a BMW 5-Series was similarly caught in the act, but as far as we could tell, no action was taken against the driver.
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Rich ppl curi our subsidy. Government what’s your move now?
Can’t blame them. They are only following the examples of our ethical leaders… /s
Acting rich in malaysia but become B40 once going back. Afterward keep telling bad stories about malaysia .
Riyal, dinar, ringgit… but nvr steal ron95 kikiki
Like our exFM, talk big about anticorruption but himself is Mr 10%.
Saman SGD $300 when going back to Sinkie
Best to give coupons. No country has half free petrol like malaysia. No one can steal if no subsidy at petrol station.
Imagine billions lost.
Better enforcement & controlling methods should be made. Current situation is there is very loose enforcement.
Correct , utterly failure BN gomen. My fellow kelantanese smuggled more subsidized petrol into selatan Siam …than annual total petroleum production of Arab Saudi.
Utter failure of PAP/PAP gomen for not educating their kind to obey laws and not taking advantage of B40s.
Both PAP & DAP. Lain nama, sama spesis.
2 years of excellent enforcement but the first thing they did after ropening border is to break the law. Their hands itchy at wanting to break laws here as soon as they arrive, what can enforcement do?
thats why najib demolish the petrol subsidy and give it to the needed via bantuan. but the bantuan also very little for them.. IMHO these mechanism seems valid for this case thooo
Lupa and Takpe….
Our country is good at coming out with policies and rulings but when comes to enforcement, oops, ha ha ha
This is not a matter of enforcement, this is a matter of sinkie education. What are they teaching their generations? Learn to steal?
Station operators should take action. After all, they make money too from higher grades.
Prseumably more money, I guess compared to the lower grades?
the margin per liter is fixed for all petrol grade
https://paultan.org/2009/02/15/how-fuel-prices-are-calculated-in-malaysia/
when will goverment grow some balls . 3 to 1 malu lah malaysia
This has nothing to do with balls, only Sinkie failed education system at teaching their generations it is okay to steal.
Nothing wrong taking advantage of I help you profit , you help me pump . Win win
When the rich takes advantage of subsidies meant for the poor. Scummy attitude coming from a scummy nation.
and just like you no different than jho low and ah jib
That estima owner could be using setel app at the petronas station given there is no requirement to register malaysian car plate while signing up…
This cracks the Utopian image of Singapore
There needs to be detailed SOP of how foreign registered vehicles shall refuel at ALL our stations including the penalties, to be enforced IMMEDIATELY upon sufficient evidence.
“Malaysian motorists only”
This itself is already questionable. Do Malaysians drive only Malaysian-registered cars? When a rule is decided by people in KL and cited by people in KL, you are likely to get crap….. Because they think KL is the country.
Why would Malaysian get Singapore-registered car and drive in Malaysia? Do you aware that the conversion rate of Malaysia to SG currency is 3:1? You think Malaysian will buy the same car with 3 times cost?
this hwt guy doesnt get the point. foreigner like expat driving malaysian car can also pump ron97. point is you work here live here pay tax here so you enjoy subsidy. if youre malaysian but you drive a singaporean car, youre working living and paying tax there. youre not a malaysian taxpayee
johor ppl that work in singapore have to buy a singapore registered car if they were to drive to sg everyday
You are aware of the exchange rate. But you are not aware of Singapore rules about vehicle usage. Long term pass holder foreigners cannot drive foreign cars in Singapore. I hope this explains why I said “they think KL is the country”…… People in KL generally have no clue about another country, and the effect of rules of those countries on foreigners. At the borders, there are a lot of the “foreigners”.
The rule has to be clear. Eg whether it is referring to foreign vehicles, foreign drivers or a combination of both. Remember that foreign vehicles may be driven by locals (there are tons at the border), and local vehicles may be driven by foreigners (also tons). This article says Malaysian drivers, which makes it unclear. The driver in the picture may be a Malaysian, in which case, according to the article, is completely all right. But the article goes on to say it is illegal.
You may say, simple, whether foreign driver or foreign vehicle, both cannot pump RON95. But what about a foreigner driving a socar? Then socar will increase its prices, because expensive fuel pumped by a foreigner into the tank of a socar may subsequently be used by locals. If you say, socar excluded, but what about gocar, trevo and others? Are the station staff able to differentiate these?
Malaysians get called-out by Singaporeans if they break the law (rightly so) and sometimes being stigmatized with slurs (not ok).
But where is your uproar when your fellow Singaporeans are stealing Malaysian taxpayer money at the gas stations?
If a person has to depend on law & enforcement to act morally, then…
Please close the border again for the singapore motorist. Don’t let them come in except by public transport.
Triple reciprocal charges for Singapore registered car
Hello that’s our Malaysian subsidy can we do same at your country don’t misuse our priorities.
What to do? Our government sooooooo stupid. Always have to give tongkat but not enough income to give tongkat.
If you remove excise duty and taxes from autos, I will gladly pay market rate for fuel. Having high excise duties, citizens are paying twice and are borrowing money from banks to pay taxes to government. Then the government tax the banks again for the profit they earn from interest. When are citizens here going to realise that?
Where is UMNO and the “making Singapore developed” claim? It is 3-to-1 now from 1-to-1 in the past.
I don’t blame Singaporeans. It is pure economics.
Better closed the border both side so no got hurt
You don’t like it the border down south is open again. Just don’t beg to come back and refuel with our cheap petrol.
When the rich takes advantage of subsidies meant for the poor. Scummy attitude coming from a scummy nation.
Just charge additional rm200-300 for all cars entering malaysia. this charge is for a full tank of petrol they got here.
kiasu
Government should just remove fuel subsidies and impose fuel tax so that Ron 95 will cost from RM10 to improve revenue…
They do it because they know how loose our enforcement and execution here, simple as that. More so the tidak ape attitude that has rooted in us since doesn’t matter you’re the islander or peninsular.
One side is tidak ape bolehland all along, the other knows the trait and acts along, sama sama jer la…
Don’t blame Malaysia, your sinkie high education mana? Never thought you to obey rules kah? Or you only obey rules like prisoners, never follow unless constantly being threatened?
KPDNHEP? HMMM.. LEMAHHHHHH…..
I think we need better mechanism than the current one… even though many keep saying leave it to the operator, but it is hard for them to monitor.
Enforcement is the key.
Enforcement comes when education failed. SG education has failed to teach them right from wrong.
our so called advance NRIC is useless when it comes to this huh?
Pandemic and close border for such a long time, only such issue arise these government starts thinking of ways to find “answer” for rakyat.
Answer does not meant action thou
What can Malaysia gomen do? Tell SG Education minister how to teach their citizen not to curi? Maybe if UMNO ran SG, their citizen won’t so easy tempted to come and curi with impunity.
Remove bulk subsidy, give subsidy directly to driver account.
Fuel pumps should integrate with valid Malaysian driving license. This would eliminate possibilities of unauthorized fills. Govt should make this decision
Increase toll for foreigner vehicles and reduce toll charges for local msian ….hello please do some changer’s and difference between Malaysian and foreigner n apply to for RPs cause getting both countrys benefit no fare even B40 was given to some PRs whereby some Malaysian never get that privilege.,why….someone look into it….
Yesterday My friend first time drived his car to Johor bahru, he went to shell petrol station and wanted to put Ron 95, the Shell staff told him he cannot use Ron 95 for SG cars, he dont know about the rule ( only Ron 97 for Sg cars ), then he filled the tank with RON 97. This might be the case some or many SG drivers may dont know about this rules. *Anyway now borders open, Johor economy might boom due to many foreigners coming into malaysia.*
Friend pretend stupid is it, why he did not fill full tank at SG before coming into JB? For sure is to suck our cheap petrol, isn’t it?
Malaysia have many law but no enforcement, that’s why this issue happened. Also those subsidies are from Malaysian taxpayer money. Enforcement not only to be done at border but through out whole Malaysia.
Malaysian driving license can be use for authentication before refueling, perhaps by upgrading it to have RFID build in features like our IC. This system later can be use for targeted subsidies, if goverment would abolish the fuel subsidy at refueling station and adopt the floating market price for fuel.
Also petrol station operator can put up a BIG highlighted sign at each of the pump on the warning of foreign vehicles only can purchase ron97. This no longer an excuse first time or don’t know.
In the end of the day we can make 1million rules but no enforcement equal to no rules.
most who pump 95 are Malaysian but SG PR. They are the most cheapskate.