The reopening of the Malaysia-Singapore land border on April 1 saw no shortage of traffic heading into the country, and with it, plenty of reports of Singaporean motorists refuelling with RON 95 petrol at Malaysian fuel stations during the first week of the reopening.
This action is of course not allowed, as foreign-registered vehicles (including motorcycles) are prohibited from buying RON 95 – which is heavily subsidised by the Malaysian government – under a ban that has been in place since August 1, 2010.
Monitoring subsequent to the initial period has largely put the activity in check – last month, the ministry of domestic trade and consumer affairs (KPDNHEP) has said it will constantly run checks at petrol stations to prevent this from happening.
But what about diesel, which is also subsidised by the government and is presently capped at RM2.15 per litre for Euro 5 B10 and B20 blends, and at RM2.35 per litre for Euro 5 B7? Under the ruling, Singaporean-registered diesel vehicles are allowed to purchase diesel at a Malaysian petrol station.
However, there are caveats to this allowance, which came into effect on October 1, 2020 – the purchase is limited to 20 litres per day at petrol stations within 25 km of the Malaysia-Singapore border gate. Presumably, this is to allow vehicles (primarily, commercial) that utilise the fuel enough of it for the return journey to the republic, and also to prevent smuggling of the fuel. This restriction is not in place further inland – a diesel car heading to KL, for example, will obviously need fuel, and can refill as per usual.
Singaporean motorists can of course refuel their vehicles with RON 97 petrol without limit, provided the fuel is supplied directly into the tank of the vehicle. At present, RON 97 retails for RM4.31 per litre. In Singapore, the price of RON 95 starts from SGD3.12 (RM9.88) per litre, while prices of RON 98 start from SGD3.60 (RM11.40) per litre. Meanwhile, the price of diesel in Singapore is around the SGD3 (RM9.50) per litre mark
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The government should match the petrol price of Singapore to prevent this from happening
A simpler solution is to allow only EVs from Singapore, since they pump neither RON95 nor diesel. :)
But, ooops, Malaysia still does not know how to charge more for Singapore EVs.
Charging them is no issue, funny how many are complaining about the high rates here. Still the issue is about them following the proper procedure to pay and not to steal electricity
https://paultan.org/2022/04/18/singaporean-ev-spotted-stealing-electricity-at-shell-recharge-180-kw-dc-electric-car-charger-in-tangkak/
PT are just dredging up a mountain for no purpose. I see no problem here. Our heavily subsidised diesel are in the form of Euro2 black which will kill just about any modern day diesel engined car, which itself is rare anyways, those that do come would have to pump our much higher priced clean diesel and again impact is lessened as Asia are not too keen on diesel cars. For trucks and buses, I think it is justified for them to use our black diesel as majority of the roads they will travel to & fro are in Malaysia.
Oh so u didnt know that we are also aelling our Euro 5 Diesel at a highly subsidised rates. Open your eyes bro.
Don’t forget our flour, sugar, chicken and cooking oil package how to control?
Oh ya, we should peg the salaries of Malaysians working in Singapore the same as Malaysians working in Malaysia too so there won’t have Brain drainage and no foreigners fighting over jobs from singaporeans.
Yea, I strongly support pegging Malaysian salaries in Singapore to be the same as Malaysian salaries in Malaysia….. If Malaysians continue to whine. If they want fair game, that shall be it.
delicious salt in this thread
There are only 18k diesel vehicles in Singapore now and by 2025 no more new diesel cars will be sold there.
It’s not a concern for us.