Petrol Soar, People Roar

Remember the good old days when petrol costed RM1.91 per litre? For me it was still ok, spent roughly RM78-80++ for a full tank (for my 2005 1.3 Hyundai Getz). Well good news people, wake up and smell the petrol because:

PETROL RM2.69
DIESEL RM2.58
(as of 5th June 2008)

Die.

There you go. The price skyrocketed too fast and too much. The 6pm news about the uber 60% price increase spread faster than a typical spamming MSN worm. Within a time period of 6.30pm-12am the whole Sibu folks with vehicles panicked and rushed to the nearest petrol station to fuel up before the price increase the next day.

The situation was no different from the new year's night last December. Last year the government told their beloved people that the price will increase next year (2008). Some was gullible and thought it was effective immediately on 1st January 2008, so the person spammed the whole town telling them about the theory.

Now the suggestion from one of the newspaper telling us to use bikes and trishaw to save up some money for other living costs starts to sound relevant. Soon enough, with the petrol price hikes ever more often ceteris paribus, we will have to go gradually go back to basics as how our forefathers lived.

Slowly our cars and motorbikes will transform into bicycles and trishaw (and a 4 seater bike for family), With the price of other goods is affected and increased by the petrol price increment, we will also have to de-evolve all our goods and services consumption. A rice now is roughly RM60, a big family might need 3 packs (RM180 per month) so we have to remove the staple food out of our diet for good. We must plant and eat horseradish as what our grandparents did during the WWII/Communist era. Then to conserve energy (due to excess wastage of power generation, oh and of course global warming) we replace all our light bulbs with candles, even in the toilet (remember, don't fart).

After a long while everyone will be downsized to one single size of S or M due to malnutrition. This is good not only for healthy living, but also conserve the cotton/silk/etc supply. Then after a while a stone house with no more air-con is a hot house during drought, so it must be downgraded into wooden house. To help replenish the soil for the horseradish, we must rear livestocks e.g. chickens, ducks, cows etc. This means we have to turn the beautifully well-maintained garden and lawn into a farm.

Soon people will be busy attending to the livestock and more time traveling on bicycles, hence cutting the need for entertainment such as TV, ASTRO, PC etc. These hardwares must be sold off since it has outlived their usefulness, making the wooden house more spacious and bringing in better feng shui. The same applies to those wacky exercise equipments which can be sold as scraps.

By the end of the day you'll have a lovely, cool, spacious house with nothing but a happy and healthy family. Money would no longer be a pain in the arse, and thus crime rate decreases, causing a happier community. When everyones happy they will practice give and take, slowly eliminating the use and rat race for money. Everything will be for free or on goodwill in the end, making the country less stressful and actually living in harmony with each other.

There, I bullshitted a lot there. Reason: I'm tired of mocking, swearing at, cursing the price increase, waste of a good tantrum. No one's gonna listen anyways.