The government has announced that full-time e-hailing drivers will be granted additional eligibility for the Budi Madani RON 95 (Budi95) petrol subsidy, with the additional allocation starting this October 15.
In a statement, the finance ministry said that full-time e-hailing drivers will not need to apply individually. Instead, the government will deal with the e-hailing operators (EHO) to process applications on a group basis.
Under the Budi95 initiative, all Malaysian citizens with a valid driving licence are eligible to purchase RON 95 at RM1.99 per litre at an allocation of 300 litres per month. It was previously indicated that the standard monthly quota would be insufficient for e-hailing driver operating on a full-time basis, as they can use up to around 25 to 30 litres of petrol a day for their daily work.
Elsewhere, the ministry confirmed that the monthly subsidised RON 95 allocation of 300 litres for every eligible citizen was renewed yesterday as part of the monthly reset for it, which will be on the 1st of every month.
It added that as of 6 pm yesterday, the total purchase of subsidised RON 95 petrol across the country had reached approximately RM84.2 million, involving more than 42.3 million litres of the fuel. From that amount, a subsidy of RM27.8 million has been channeled into the programme. The ministry added that over three million users have benefited from the programme since its phased introduction from September 27.
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business model would be for taxi driver to pump 600 liters a month then sell it across whichever country border for RM3 per liter so thats easy recurring profit of RM600 per month, hello @pdrm #hashtag#kpdn
Let’s hope the e-hailing drivers stick to the taxi business instead of going into petrol selling business. With a difference of RM60 per 100 liters there’s profit to be made selling to commercial users who don’t qualify for Budi95.
So how much is it? How many litres? This article just repeating orignial Budi95 information which everyone already know it.
Now my tax money is going to subsidize Grab
Fantastic superb mutha of friend unlike chong king
your tax money goes to subsidize malaysian partners-drivers of grab, and boss of grab who is also malaysian. in fact your tax money subisidizes my budi95 and my tax money subsidized your budi95. if ur not happy then stay far outside montkiara and drive merc more often to consume more petrol .
Billionaire Anthony Tan does not need Msian taxpayers to subsidise him lah. Is this Gomen just for the rich & powerful?
put it another way, the thousands of hardworking Grab driver/partners need support and subsidies from all malaysian taxpayers, so i guess this gomen is for the poor and downtrodden
Merc safe petrol la. You mean gas guzzlers like Alphart and Innova
What model is the car in the thumbnail of this article?
only a non-malaysian would ask this question
Open the image in a new tab, it’s an AI-generated image. The letters on the car plate and the Grab logo aren’t rendered well
King of highway la. Like that also can’t recognise??
Government are the public servant and they should be transparent about their spending on the taxpayers money. While we should be hidden from them. Without the subisdy , im sure the money not only to purchase Petroleum from other country, and we have the right to know where does it spend on? Next voting should be starting to enforce transparency on the government ledger.