That's poor thing for fuel stations in JB area, but good news to all stations in, say, Kulai area.
The implementation of this policy will kill those stations next to the border with little local consumers.
Good old-time is now a history, the fuel stations nearby the borders have to face a tough time before the launch of the new policy for fuel subsidy in the future. Especially for those stations that located immediately next to the check-points of the broders (the stations in Second-link is the best example where the only destination after the stations is Singapore).
Normally, I, as local fuel comsumer, won't fill up my petro tank until the very last station before entering Singapore. Because I don't think I am going to use up petro in my tank while travelling in Singapore, so the last minute filling up does not make sense to me.
Before this, only Foreign Plate Vehicles will fill up petro last-minutely, because that means every kilometre they travel in Malaysia will have powered in Malaysian's subsidied fuel and leave more subsidied fuel to in the tank for their journey in their home country. Having stopped them from filling up the tank just before the border will make the next-to-the-border-stations losing up all these kind of consumers and hence, in the future, the only source of income will have to rely on local consumers in which, I think, is scarce.
