I did an estimate of how much I spend on petrol traveling to KL every Monday and Tuesday every week just so I can do my attachment at UMMC.
Since the petrol hike this month, the expenses have definitely shot up. Now, the cost of driving to and fro each day is RM 50 and in a month I spend about RM 400 just on petrol and toll.
Now, that’s a lot of money. I have to fork it out of my own pocket.
RM 400 can feed my family for a week, maybe more. It can also pay my wife’s car’s monthly installment.
Which got me thinking…
Is it really worth it?
But then again, when I think about the experience I gain from just being there, who could put a price to it?
So, for now, I will have to bear with the high cost. I will look for alternatives, such as:
1. Drill for oil in my backyard.
2. Drive my wife’s Perodua Viva instead of the oil-guzzling behemoth that I am driving now (but my wife wouldn’t allow it, mainly out of concern for my safety)
3. Convert my car into a NGV guzzling one (a good option that I am seriously considering)
4. Drive like the Flintstones (you know, make holes in the floorboard and use my legs to propel the car!).
Sigh…
Tues, 170608 @ 0700
ngv may be cheap, but you won’t recoup your conversion costs unless you travel a lot. Some calculations show you may save enough on fuel to cover the kit + installation only after 4 years of driving.
LM, easier said than done. The public transport in boleh-land is no where as good as the ones in the Southern red dot. Besides, I have to send my kid to school before heading to KL. If I take the commuter, it will take me at least 2 hours to reach my destination (by which time, it would be about 10 am ~ hardly the proper time to start work) and the bus ~ no way am I getting onto these speeding killers. There have been a rash of buses plunging into just about everything except being on the road.
Take the komuter or bus to KL lah.
The largest NGV station is in Seremban. That’s another plus point. With NGV you will roughly save 3/4 of your spending on petrol.
But NGV will slash the car’s top speed dramatically. Can be good or bad, depending on how you look at it. It will do a speed daemon no good, but at lesat won’t kena saman.
Plus the fact I will have to put my kids on the top of the car and strap them there, once I get the NGV thingy installed.
NGV is so so cheap to compare with the petrol..
from kl to penang is only 8 bucks..
but looking for a station with the NGV sign is a problem one..:(