{"id":389,"date":"2008-08-31T15:09:50","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T07:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=389"},"modified":"2008-08-31T15:09:50","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T07:09:50","slug":"cruel-fuel-world-or-cruel-world-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"Cruel Fuel World or Cruel World Fuel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another nice flash animation (sorry rss readers&#8230;) on how to view the world. Notwithstanding having fuel prices calculated based on an arbitrary set of conditions like taxes, tariffs, subsidies, and refining\/transportation cost is kinda moot, because none of the above applies equally to every citizen in the country, but overall, this gives a general regional picture of who&#8217;s being forced to stop driving most but all these forces. <\/p>\n<p>I think our generation go down the history textbooks as one of the most fortunate times because we get to vroom vroom &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>[kml_flashembed movie=&#8221;http:\/\/www.portfolio.com\/images\/site\/editorial\/Flash\/interactive-feature\/2008\/08\/fuel-world\/fuel-world.swf&#8221; height=&#8221;399&#8243; width=&#8221;582&#8243; \/]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portfolio.com\/images\/site\/editorial\/Flash\/interactive-feature\/2008\/08\/fuel-world\/fuel-world.swf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to launch a new window for a bigger size<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portfolio.com\/interactive-features\/2008\/08\/Gas-Prices-Around-the-World\" target=\"_blank\">Portfolio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Singapore vs Malaysia is $5.41 vs $3.16 (cost per gallon, everything in USD) still a far cry from Hong Kong&#8217;s $8.05, but make a sweeping assumption of equal GDP per capita (SG $50,299 vs MY $13,379) and the fact that Malaysians drives 50% more (assume MY 15,000miles \/ year but SG coz got ERP and small so only 10,000miles \/ year), and all cars are as efficient (say 30 miles\/gallon), then we can work out that:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image388\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/fuel.gif\" alt=\"Comparison\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>That indeed, fuel cost is a smaller consideration on the island. Do you agree with such an analysis?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another nice flash animation (sorry rss readers&#8230;) on how to view the world. Notwithstanding having fuel prices calculated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malaysia","category-singapore","content-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}