NGV scandals

The government has been asking the people to use Natural Gas Vehicle (NGV). The government has been telling us that they want to promote the use of NGV and are building the necessary infrastructure to support the use of NGV, such as building more refueling stations for these NGV.

For those who do not already know, NGV are cars that uses Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) instead of the normal petrol or diesel as fuel. Currently, the NGV in Malaysia are mostly those taxis in Klang Valley and the only refuelling stations are a few selected Petronas station. The number of refueling stations of NGV are really very limited. If you have been wondering why there are such a long queue of taxis at a petrol station, its because those taxi are waiting for their turn to refuel their tank with CNG. These long queues are very common, happens every single day of the year, minus maybe those long Raya or CNY break.

But from what is reported in the paper, I can tell you that its a big lie! NGV is not much of an option at all in Malaysia. I realised that when i did some thinking about it. The government has been cheating when they asked us to use NGV vehicle. Prices of NGV is damn low in Malaysia because it is HUGELY subsidised by Petronas.

Read carefully. There is a reason why i use the word HUGE. Look at this piece of news from TheStar. It mentioned there that the production of CNG is not sufficient to meet the demand of the country. They have to import from Indonesia to meet the demand.

Now look at the price stated there. Petronas sell the CNG at RM6.40 while the market price is RM40 when the a barrel of oil at that time was only USD80. If the Government were to go all out and promote the usage of NGV, imagine how much Petronas would have to subsidies. The market price is 8x the price that they are selling to the industry. Do you think the government can afford to give so much in subsidy?

They are lying. They just telling us to convert to NGV while at the same time, not building the infrastructure to support. Its an excuse that they are using for the imminent increase of petrol prices after the election. After they increase the price they would tell you that you have a choice. Why don't you people convert to NGV? When the fact is that its so inconvenient to use NGV.

What i'm trying to say here is that NGV is not the answer to the solution of alternative fuel. It may look cheap and easy, but the reality is that it is NOT as simple as that. Well, i might have been wrong. The is not much detail on the actual price of NGV on the market. All this is based on the news report. If anyone has a better idea of the price, please correct me if i'm wrong.