Petrol price increases... again!!!

As Malaysians, we are already finding it difficult to maintain with the price increase in the essential items such as rice, flour, cooking oil, etc.. Now comes a bigger blow - increase in petrol price!

Eventhough everyone were actually expecting the price to shoot up (despite assurance by some leaders that it will not), the level of this time's increase, which is about 40%, was a major blow to all.

Almost all major highways and main roads were jammed up from 6pm yesterday. SMSes were just flying across the networks and almost all phones were ringing non-stop, from house phones to mobile ones. The cause?

-The public, in its frenzy and panic, decided to save up a few bucks the last time before the price increase came into effect. And they also wanted to inform their friends and loved ones so that they could also do the same. So, all the petrol stations were jammed up, the line up of cars extending beyond the station compound and up to 100 metres and taking up 2-3 lanes of the road. Yes, including petrol station such as Shell, that was a victim of boycott call by some muslim parties againts all Holland products, just a few months ago.

And to add some icing, major newspapers such as the The Star reported that this increase will be reviewed every month. I wonder how malaysians or actually the entire world are going to cope with this very sudden huge impact on our lives. Brace yourselves as  we would soon see prices in goods  to increase as well..