Tuesday, March 21, 2006

more distorted facts..

I received the following via IM today..

Berasaskan harga minyak semasa, katakan AS61 untuk satu tong, dan satu tong mengandungi 209 liter minyak. Kalau satu tong minyak berharga AS70 ini juga bersamaan RM259, jadi RM259 dibahagikan kepada 209 liter, ini bermakna lebih kurang RM1.23 untuk satu liter. Persoalannya bagaimana kerajaan menaikkan harga minyak kepada RM1.92 seliter," jelas beliau. Katanya, daripada apa yang difahaminya jelas menunjukkan rakyat telah menanggung semua cukai negara. "Jadi perincian itu harus ditunjukkan kepada rakyat secara telus seupaya rakyat tahu kenapa dikenakan kenaikan 30 sen, dan faham apa yang berlaku - tolong forwardkan
Whoever started this chain IM message is either stupid or just plain menghasut( I think the later because if you could research enough to know how many liters per barrel, you should know what's in the barrel in the first place..) ... And ordinary people not in the know ended up helping the person spread the lies.

Please.. do a little research.. Oil is traded in US commodities market in crude form... (minyak mentah, the black toxic stuff that comes out of the belly of our mother earth). The crude oil need to go through multi level of refining processes, added chemicals, etc before you get your sweet smelling petrol or diesel fuel. All these processes cost lots of money and that's my friend how the price goes up from your claimed less than RM 1.29/ lit to RM 1.92/lit.

Just like palm oil is traded in crude form. Then you would be asking how come you pay so much for cooking oil when the crude palm oil price is only RM 1.40 per kg.

Once again people, do alittle research before you start forwarding stuff. Coz you may be spreading lies with your good intention.

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