CNG Wars: The Forum Whores - NEW Reply "With Quote"
Long, long, time ago, in an island that nobody gives a damn a new fuel to power automobiles appeared. It was CNG.
First Genie47 and some other converted their PARF cars to use this highly cost effective and environmentally clean fuel. No rebates. No tax cuts. Nothing. Nothing but the desire to travel unperturbed by escalating petrol prices and improving the quality of air on the island where nobody gives a damn.
Then the Porsche came and installed. It was revealed that there were OMV rebates given. 40%! This gave others a desire to own a truly cheap automobile with cheap fuel. The parallel importers saw this golden opportunity and gave what the hungry people demanded.
The number of vehicles surged. Scantruck and Melchers were converting about 100 vehicles a month. There are many CNG converted vehicles. SMART put up an operational battle station at Mandai. The fleets of cars, taxis and even buses came. SembGas put up a puny outpost at the outskirts of an island from the island where nobody gives a damn.
Then came the high petrol prices thanks to the black substance that makes the island that nobody gives a damn polluted. Unfortunately CNG prices are tied to HSFO.Prices went up.
So the SMART people at SMART raised their prices, and up, and up......
This prompted a bozo to write to Today questioning the escalating prices of CNG and WHY THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JLN BUROH AND MANDAI.
Firstly, this person is very stupid. Typical of a Singaporean who only know how to complain.Nobody forced you to go to Mandai. You can go to Jln Buroh. It is very obvious the difference between Jln Buroh and Mandai is that SMART is a retailer. Jln Buroh is operated by SembGas who are wholesalers. When it comes to prices, who wins? Wholesalers. SMART just cannot tahan the price increases. This complaint about the "shock" shows how gullible Singaporeans are. A single ST Forum letter can force SMART to lower their prices to SembGas stock selling price? How stupid can that be? Thanks to this person and also from my sources. SembGas will be forced to increase price for their CNG. Their CNG meaning Jln Buroh and Jurong Island. Apparently from my sources, somebody in SembGas got "greased" by his superiors for keeping prices the way they are now which is lower than Mandai. Whoever you are who wrote to Today and complained. Thank you.
Then my next gripe is on a Mr Lauren Heng. JB CNG, only SGD6 and can go 200km. This I know. Every CNG user knows but the taxi drivers can't use JB CNG so we can leave them out of this. I will start with familiar bullsh1t bird story.
A little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold the bird froze and fell to the ground in a large field.
While it was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on it. As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, it began to realize how warm it was.
The dung was actually thawing him out! He lay there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy.
A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate. Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung, and promptly dug him out and ate him.
Its the same situation here. Don't start to sing when you are enjoying something. Just shut up.
Let your actions do the talking. Need to go into JB, don't need to annouce to the world. FYI, I was asked for an interview last year when I converted. I refused. Two things will make the interview politically incorrect. Firstly, I'm exclusively using JB CNG and petrol. I'm effectively robbing the Malaysians. You don't go on the newspapers and annouce to the world you blatantly cross the border to rob Malaysians of their fuel. BTW, their customs are going to reintroduce the white card again on 16 Jul 08. This same parable above can be applied if you are feeling the heat. If you feel the pinch, complaining will not get anything done for you. Let real economics work. Go to buy from somewhere else cheaper. You should only complain when prices are high and the same everywhere. Like petrol.
I've just got my gas from Jln Buroh. I was standing beside the compressor and I can hear it working.It goes like this "TOLONGTOLONGTOLONGTOLONGTOLONGTOLONG"
Next is my opinions on whoever it is who thinks the green diamond CNG sticker on the bumper is ugly. We've seen the ST Forum, My Paper Forum and Today Forum CNG attention whores. Those are whores. The person who complained about the CNG bumper sticker is a vain ugly attention whore. Nothing is said about the windshield decals. Nobody said a thing. Nobody complained a thing. Nobody died from a freak CNG accident....yet. Instead of questioning the safety involved from ill-displayed stickers, you talked about how ugly it is. I mean I have read that forum entry and also the posts from idiots about how ugly it is on MCF and SGCNG. I mean are these people for real! Oops forgot, I didn't see the warning sign on their heads about the congenital brain disease called stupidity they have. Today's papers contained a joint statement by SCDF and LTA on this matter. Now everyone has to put it on their bumpers. Its for safety. Not because they want you to look bad.
Then the stupid Stomper. BTW, I have a very poor impression of Stompers. I think they aspire to be some media whore like XX but fail it doing so that is why they ended up posting utter rubbish that is of even lower quality than the trash by the said blogger in Stomp. 31 Dec 2009. Special Tax. The epitome of kiasu and kiasee. Stupidity is a hallmark of any government only that this is a highly paid stupid government and civil service. Just use the fuel and go on with your life if you have converted. The stock market is doing very badly now. What are you going to do about it? Whatever is not in your control, you do nothing. As simple as that.
It also amazes me the stupidity extends to seemingly normal questions. "Go up Genting can use CNG or not?" I mean, what kind of moron asks that? The car is bifuel. Bi as in bisexual. Can do homo gay sex (or lesbian) and straight sex. Same with the bifuel car. You got the choice. See what I mean? A Singaporean is incapable of decisions because he has never been given choices in his growing up years.
Now for the price of CNG. What is a fair price? I don't know but what I know is that this is controlling the bifuel car growth but I think this control is way out of hand. It is not even 1% of the total vehicle population of Singapore. I just came back from the SGCNG meetup at Mandai. I swear I came but I didn't pump. The bisexual....ooops bifuel car queue went all the way into Mandai Rd itself. It was a horrible mass orgy.
So even though it is not 1% of the total vehicle population, we only have two publicly accessible stations. The scene is exactly what I encounter in JB in 2007. There are just not enough filling stations. BTW, things are different in JB now. There are more stations and you don't see queues snaking even into busy highways.
So this high CNG price might be good. It is deterring bifuel car growth. I've been hearing stories where people canceled their bifuel Airwaves from long waits till delivery. Some adopt a wait see attitude. Some are laughing at the converted. Some shake their heads and go for petrol. I mean all this is fine. It is economics at play. I'm all for economics doing its most evil to balance out the market. Like the song from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. "We don't need another hero. We just need another life beyond Thunderdome." Why? A good study on two countries, two experiences on CNG. Firstly Argentina.
In Argentina, the government didn't give tax cuts or anything for those converting to bifuel. The only plus is the cheaper fuel. People slowly converted. As a result, Argentina has one of the most extensive CNG networks with a large fleet of CNG cars.
Next New Zealand.
The New Zealand government pushed heavily for CNG conversion. Everything was thrown in. Tax cuts, rebates and all that. Bifuel car growth exploded but a network was not in place. There are long queues, CNG prices did go up for a while. However the damage was done. CNG became a second rate fuel because people went back to using petrol.
So don't write to any SPH or Mediacorp paper. You can post on the online forums for all you like. We don't want any government interference.
Anything that is touched by a government bureaucrat will eventually be ruined. Our football is a fine example. Our family and sex lives are ruined too. Think of the two is enough policy. I think next will be our science.
Do not let the government do anything for you. They have proven themselves highly stupidly paid.
It is fine to let things be. Do what you can like go to JB. But if you feel the urge to sing. Just write a song and hopeful get Tanya Chua to sing it. You might get the Cultural Medallion.
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If the pleasures of love be as ten, then three times three belongs to woman. The rest belongs to man. - Tiresias
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