Was driving round the countryside, after a quick reconissance of the Lata Celak at Kg Iboi near Baling when the call of nature needs to be answered.
So, drop down to the nearest Petronas and I noticed this chap in a Pajero filling up 10 huge plastic jerrycans of Petrol for commercial purposes. I did ask the chap inside the station and said the fellow is a trader and a norm here. Well, so much for Health and Safety. 10 jerrycans?! That is alot of petrol not in his fuel tank. I thought it was diesel only but the qualms of petrol prices to go up 60 cents make these people stock up just in case.
The thing is, the station can't authorise more than RM150 of fuel using the internal kiosk, so he had to fill up at the Motorcycle Lane, which had no control and stuff like that. I mean, a can is about 30 Liters and thus means he is filling up 300 odd liters of fuel plus of his own, which works to about 400 Liters of fuel to be bootlegged into Thailand or the 'PENDALAMAN' or tribal areas. RM790 worth of fuel just by one person and well, seems the local KDNHEP office knows abotu it and shut one eye as the stations around there have been receiving threats at Parang Point to do the sale.
So, no wonder the prices are up. These is enough to drive for almost 4,000 KM or 180 hours of driving at idle speed.
Bootleg Petrol??
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