“76% of drivers who do not pay ERP daily benefit from 15% road tax cut”, the state-managed media hailed, expecting us to fall in line and believe that the ERP is for the better good of the greater majority AND a necessary evil in land scare Singapore AND the government actually doesn’t benefit from it.

“Bullocks!”, says Stanislaus Jude as he explores the issue.

Local newspapers are heralding the success of the government’s obscene increment of the number of ERP gantries, as well as the charges levied at each gantry.

It’s almost like they have to make you believe, “hey, it’s working.”

Bullshit, I say. Pray tell how you derive at these ridiculous statistics about road usage and average speeds.

Across the borders North and South of Malaysia, in Thailand and Singapore respectively, motorists are in a flurry as Kuala Lumpur announced last week plans for a ban on sale of petrol to foreign-licensed vehicles within a 50km radius of its borders.

Resident writer Jane Goh gets to the bottom of the oil barrel as we keep track of this story as it unfolds.

*Tak Boleh = Malay for ‘Cannot’