Right.. that was the shocking revelation that flashed the headlines this morning. No petrol sales to foreign registered cars in Malaysia border town. This means states like Kedah, Perak, Johor, Perlis and Kelantan will have to stop their sale of petrol to foreign registered cars.

Should the the owners of these foreign registered cars wishes to top-up their petrol, they would have to travel 50km away from the border to get their nearest petrol supply. This ban was implemented yesterday to control the sales of subsidized petrol that was meant for Malaysians only. This is because foreigners that live near the border took advantage of the subsidized petrol by entering Malaysia solely for their petrol top-up.

It’s going to cause a great commotion amongst petrol station owners especially those that heavily relies on the sales from foreign registered cars. I can almost hear the groans and moans of Singapore workers who lives in Johor and drives a Singapore registered vehicle. There are alot of them doing that in Johor, living in two worlds as they would like to put it.

While the Singaporeans are groaning and moaning of their petrol source from their “Cheap Neighbour”, the Singapore government would be all smiles.

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