Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Electric car....bah, humbug!

Everyone particularly the PM is excited about the so-called new technologies like the hydro fuel and electric car to the extent of instructing Proton to expedite production of such cars. Old timers like him for sure will be excited since for them they are new technologies but pardon me those have already been around for quite some times especially in the developed nations. Hybrid cars or electric cars are commercially available there but they haven't reach reach user friendly viability or to be precise, money friendly as their costs are still exorbitant and those are produced by well-established manufacturers unlike the greenhorn, Proton.
There are immediate questions which necessitate prompt answers i.e how much will they cost? How reliable are they? Are they viable for hilly and rough terrains in Sabah for instance, or are they talking about Malaysia excluding Sabah and Sarawak? Looking at it's size, the locally made hybrid car is not suitable for family and for commercial as well as rough terrain. How are they going to go about these situations if they were to commercially produce such cars?
Looking and analysing the government approaches in lessening the people's burden of the skyrocketing oil price, it is clear that they themselves are lost in the twilight zone with no chance of finding the real solutions. What they have been doing and proposing are laughable and thus negligible thus proving that they are worthless and incapable of ruling the nation. While they especially the PM were saying that they were taking unpopular moves but in fact they are doing the opposite by maintaining their popularity among their cronies and ironically the foreigners who are still enjoying subsidised petrol as the dual pump system is yet to materialised. Oil price hike has long been criticised as being unwise not only by the Opposition but within UMNO rank and file itself.

"Malaysians are not donkeys whom they can easily deceived"

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