Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Change your lifestyles !!!

The hottest discussion topic on everyone's lips these few days is of course non other than the drastic increase in retail prices of petrol and diesel.

After announcing the 40% petrol and 60% diesel price hike, our PM dished out this piece of advice to Malaysians ...."change your lifestyes" ... to cushion the effect and to make life less painful. But how? What concrete suggestions and ideas does he have to offer?

I think we should take the advice seriously and think about how we can go about changing our lifestyles.

Perhaps, as a sign of good leadership, the PM and all the ministers can set a few good examples on changing lifestyles and saving money on fuel.

Here are a few options they should seriously consider:

With immediate effect, they should all drive Kancils to work; gas guzzling monster cars are a definite no-no these days.

Better still, since Kancils are not versatile enough as they also get stuck in traffic jams, thereby wasting precious fuel, they should abandon four-wheelers and instead zip around on Modenas Krisses.

But, that's not good enough. The best example they can show would be to use and personally experience the effectiveness that the combination of the public transport system (buses, kereta sapu, taxis, LRT, monorial) delivers our VIP commuters to their destinations in the course of performing their duties to the rakyat

And make sure the above actions of leadership by example get a good splash all over the mainstream media. It may hit home and the rakyat may learn a few fast lessons on how to conserve fuel and do what the government is telling them to do.....change your lifestyles.

It sucks !!! big time.

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