Maxx said:
our petrol mahal bcoz we import from other country. like links said, tax/transport
and our own oil export to other country so gov. got more money.
and we malaysian suffers to pay for the higher price.
Some zth forum member mentioned before that our petrol is premium grade so petronas export it and gain huge profit. then import the cheaper petrol from overseas. Supposingly, part of the profit from petrnonas must be use to subsidy our imported petrol but the money goes elsewhere....Datuks's pet toys...big houses....etc
it is really amazing for the foreigner that msia general house hold income are so low but still our purchase power on luxury goods such as yacht, super sport cars and even private jets are one of the strongest in the region...
infact, the natural crude oil reserve in msia will be finish up in few years time, till then...we will be petrol importing country.....
recently i read the news that our multi-million dollars tsunami alert system go crazy and generated false signals to whole countries....thats really lame...eventually our standard in monitoring those expensive equipments are always low....
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a comparative measure of life expectancy, literacy, education, and standards of living for countries worldwide. It is a standard means of measuring well-being, especially child welfare. It is used to distinguish whether the country is a developed, developing, or under-developed country, and also to measure the impact of economic policies on quality of life.
Cuba has an HDI of 0.826, the 50th best, out of 177 countries, better than Mexico (0.821), Bulgaria (0.816), Romania (0.805), Malaysia (0.805), etc. The bottom 30 are all capitalist countries:
147 Togo 0.495
148 Djibouti 0.494
149 Lesotho 0.494
150 Yemen 0.492
151 Zimbabwe 0.491
152 Kenya 0.491
153 Mauritania 0.486
154 Haiti 0.482
155 The Gambia 0.479
156 Senegal 0.460
157 Eritrea 0.454
158 Rwanda 0.450
159 Nigeria 0.448
160 Guinea 0.445
161 Angola 0.439
162 Tanzania 0.430
163 Benin 0.428
164 Côte d'Ivoire[5] 0.421
165 Zambia 0.407
166 Malawi 0.400
167 Democratic Republic of the Congo 0.391
168 Mozambique 0.390
169 Burundi 0.384
170 Ethiopia 0.371
171 Chad 0.368
172 Central African Republic 0.353
173 Guinea-Bissau 0.349
174 Burkina Faso 0.342
175 Mali 0.338
176 Sierra Leone 0.335
177 Niger 0.311
So Msia is 54th best in the 177 countries in the world....not so bad? but we are behind Cuba and Mexico also Bulgaria... so, even Castro can manage the country better than our lovely BN leaders......we are worse that a dictatorship country in terms of development and living standard....