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Kaam Roko !!!

I got this amusingly ridiculous forward yesterday ....

Petrol in Pakistan Rs17 per liter
Malaysia Rs 18 per liter
In India it's 48 per liter
Why this difference in Asia itself ?

It has been calculated that if everyone did not purchase a drop of petrol for one day and all at the same time, the oil companies would choke on their stockpiles. At the same time it would hit the entire industry with a net loss over 4.6 billion dollars which affects the bottom lines of the oil companies. Therefore "Thursday September 22nd " the people of this nation should not buy a single drop of petrol that day.

My response to it ...

Growth rate of Malaysia 7.8%
Growth rate of Pakistan 6.4%
For India it's 8.2 %

Why should Indian's alone work hard?? Lets all sit and relax in our home - lets stop coming to office, stop going to markets, stop buying stocks, stop earning bonuses ....

I would have loved to avoid petrol on September 22 had they raised the cause of energy conservation or environment protection - but this is ridiculous!! On one end you want the nation to catapult itself into the ivy league of G7 and nuke-powers; and on the other hand you want your price levels to remain at the level of Asian countries - that too the ones like Pakistan !!

Communism is long dead but it keeps itself alive by such mails and forwards ...

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