Man Refuelling Singapore-Registered Car with RN95 Petrol Claims to be Malaysian

It has been a law since 2010 that no foreign cars are allowed to fill up on RON95 petrol in Malaysia, which is subsidized by the government aka taxpayers’ money. But there is no end to Singaporeans trying to take advantage of the relatively cheap petrol by filling up their tanks in Johor Bahru, located at the southern tip of Peninsular Malaysia, just before they cross the causeway to return home.

Some have been spotted shaking their car vigorously—or what some describe as “giving CPR” to the car—to get more petrol into the tank (whether that works is debatable) or filling up multiple containers with the fuel and storing them in the boot.

The latest incident to go viral is of an owner filling up his Honda Odyssey, which had a Singapore license plate, with the subsidised RON95 petrol at a Shell station in Johor Bahru. In a one-minute video published on SG Road Vigilante’s channel, a woman behind the camera confronts him just as he has finished filling his car tank with the RON95 petrol, evident by the yellow handle.

The man then proceeds to claim to be Malaysian.  (“Even though I’m Malaysian also cannot?”)

The answer is, of course, cannot lah.

The woman is heard replying, “Cannot…cannot…If you said you are Malaysian, you should know. You cannot fill up the petrol using a Singaporean car.”

Watch the full video here:

According to a former Malaysian prime minister, Malaysia loses RM1.70 for every one litre of ROM95 that a foreign vehicle consumes. If 40 litres are filled into the tank, RM68 of the rakyat’s (citizen) money benefits the foreigner.

Netizens are calling for action to be taken against the man, whose car number plate is emblazoned across the video. The maximum fine for the individual breaking this law is RM1 million (S$312,000), three years in jail, or both.