My National Car Motivational Poster on Malaysia Chronicle

Lol, another of my Malaysian Politics Motivational Posters makes the rounds years after I stopped making them, unattributed again, at Malaysia Chronicle:

The full size (click on image):

But I actually think that my other one suits the theme of ‘wasted public monies’ better:

Thanks to tip from J.

See also more on PROTON:

For Just RM70,000 PROTON Saga EV Lets You Drive ALMOST From Ipoh to Penang and Die on the Expressway

Outrageous – Saudis Pay Tens of Thousands Less Than Malaysians For PROTON Cars

Dr M: Proton Plans Exports ‘Cos Foreigners Like Them (Srsly!)

Hypocrite Dr Drama Mahathir Says Bank Bailouts Wrong, Ignores His Own Past Bailouts of ‘Failed Institutions’

And other appearances of my posters:

Scott’s PENDATANG Demotivational Poster on Youtube

For Just RM70,000 PROTON Saga EV Lets You Drive ALMOST From Ipoh to Penang and Die on the Expressway

Die as in the car battery, I mean.

Of course, stalling in the middle of the highway with the nearest charging station far, far away might make you literally die too, when a vehicle doing 110kmh says hi.

Excerpts from The Star 15 Sept 2011:

Proton delivers first batch of electric cars to Government
By ZUHRIN AZAM AHMAD
zuhrinazam@thstar.com.my

PUTRAJAYA: Proton has handed over the first batch of electric vehicles (EV) to the Government for testing and expects to mass produce them in two years.

The cars three Saga EVs and five Exora REEV or Range Extender Electric Vehicle will be used by the Prime Minister’s Department and four other ministries.

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Proton Group managing director Datuk Seri Syed Zainal Abidin Syed Mohamed Tahir said the group was targeting to offer the vehicles to the public in 2013.

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“We are looking at RM100,000 or lower for the Exora REEV and RM70,000 for the Saga EV.

“Yes, the price is 30% to 40% higher than conventional vehicles but users get to save on fuel and road tax,” Syed Zainal Abidin said.

He added that on a full tank of petrol, the Exora REEV could cover up to 700km while the Saga EV could travel up to 130km before it needed to be recharged.

So let’s do some math, and see how much driving around an electric model will save you.

Very generously assuming a conventional petrol-running RM30,000-priced car’s mileage costs of RM1.00 per kilometre against RM0.00 for the electric. Tack in RM70.00 for a 1,300cc car’s road tax against RM0.00 again for the electric. It would take, lessee… Just four years to break even on your fancy electric model’s price tag! And that’s not counting how long it takes for a full recharge (which is conveniently not mentioned) and assuming the battery doesn’t go kaput every four years and needs replacing, thus wiping out your precious, precious savings.

From Real Clear Markets:

Electric and hybrid-electric vehicles are more expensive to make and bring in less profit than other cars. They cost more to finance, more to repair, and more to insure. Their sales depend heavily on tax incentives, which means that selling more of them will require more taxpayer dollars.

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Several crash tests have suggested that the plug-in hybrid Volt, the flagship vehicle at Government Motors, has a bit of a problem: when hit or badly disturbed in accident tests, the Volt’s Lithium-Ion (Li-ion) battery packs have been seen to spark, or burst into flames afterward.

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While few may remember it now, GM’s EV-1 also had battery-related problems. In the case of the EV-1, fires, euphemistically known as “thermal incidents” were happening when people plugged the cars in to recharge. GM had to recall 600 of its first-generation electric cars after 16 such “thermal incidents” including one where the vehicle was engulfed in fire.

From Associated Press:

2nd electric car battery fire involving Chevy Volt

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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday that three Volt battery packs were crash-tested last week. In one instance, the battery caught fire afterward, and in another the battery emitted smoke and sparks.

Last May, a fire erupted in the battery of a Chevy Volt that had been damaged during a government crash test three weeks earlier. Last week’s tests were an attempt to replicate the May fire.

By the way, don’t count on any carbon or environmental savings.

How many multiple billions (of YOUR money, see here and here) were poured into something that no one is going to buy once it is finally released to market?

For comparison: $40,000 gets you an American GM Volt with a max range of maybe 80km per full charge (which takes 10 plus hours plugged in) – so the PROTON Saga EV wins on both counts of affordability and performance! Go PROTON! The GM Volt sells maybe 100 units a month (and Ford sells zero. Surely the far superior Saga EV will sell TEN TIMES as many units – which is like, I dunno, 1000 a month. At RM70,000 that means RM70 million for PROTON!!! That’s gotta be some record broken there somewhere, right? /sarc

See also related PROTON posts:

Outrageous – Saudis Pay Tens of Thousands Less Than Malaysians For PROTON Cars

Dr M: Proton Plans Exports ‘Cos Foreigners Like Them (Srsly!)

Hypocrite Dr Drama Mahathir Says Bank Bailouts Wrong, Ignores His Own Past Bailouts of ‘Failed Institutions’

Above from Malaysian Politics Motivational Posters

Pew Pew! Opinion in The Star Shoots Mahathir’s Hypocrisy on University Racial Mix

Wah ka ka ka! I actually mulled over it but decided not to blog about Dr. M’s latest selectively amnesiac ranting learned opinion.

From The Star 8 Oct 09 Opinions:

Dr M did not practise what he is preaching

HOW very refreshing to read the call by former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad for Malay students to enrol in institutions of higher learning with equal racial breakdown if they want to gain a competitive edge.

How right he is that if Malay students wish to attain superlative academic achievements, they must compete with others.

I wish Dr Mahathir had preached and practised this principle when he was Education Minister and then Prime Minister for 22 years.

I remember how I was chided for being “politically incorrect” and “acting against national interest” when I had used the same argument in advocating that a mere 10% of non-Malay students be admitted into my university’s Matriculation programme in the late 70s.

DATUK SHAROM AHMAT,

Penang.

Don’t act surprised, Datuk Sharom Ahmat!

Dr. M is a renowned hypocrite on plenty of things.

But you can probably get away with blasting him in the media due to your status, ke ke ke!

PS. Meanwhile, another reader complains about the price of imported cars… Another poke in Mahathir’s eye!

Posters #11 and #12 from Malaysian Politics Motivational Posters

Tut tut, The Star… Just because the days of Ops Lalang are over! Ha ha ha!

More Malaysian Politics Motivational Posters

21 original posters… Read ’em and weep! (If you’re a crony, that is.)

The motivational mockery of Malaysian political figures continues at Malaysian Politics Motivational Posters!

Here are some samples of the posters:

If you like them, see the whole collection (with new ones added all the time) at this link. Share with your friends and spread the mockery!

Malaysian Politics Motivational Posters

LATEST UPDATE: 11 Nov 2008

TOTAL POSTERS: 57

Updated with new ones as they are created.

Created by yours truly. (Blog address added to posters on Kean’s prompting.)

Click to view and save full versions. Images and free for forwarding, use on blogs/sites and other reproduction. Show your friends. Spread them around.

Kudos to Macam Macam Ada and kchan for linkage.

1) Correct – Wikipedia on Lingam Tape, Youtube video search

2) Chinese Blood – Police Warn Against Race Baiting in 2008 General Election (Like That’s Gonna Stop UMNO)

3) Street Protest – Penang: Massive Illegal UMNO Street Mob Protests Anti-NEP

4) Malayan Union – Najib Tun Razak Says Street Demonstrations Such As Bersih Rally Not Part of Malaysian Culture, Conveniently Forgets Malayan Union Protests

5) Insulting Royalty – Sultans, Politics and MBs – Another Giant Kayu Balak in UMNO’s Eye

6) Police Restraint – 2007 Bersih Rally – Super Cover Up Job by Government and Mainstream Media (with link to video evidence)

7) BN Selangor – Barisan Nasional Selangor Shredding Documents Photos

8.) Irrelevance – Wikipedia on Malaysian Parliamentary seats 2008

9) Happy 72nd Birthday – Wikipedia on Sammy Vellu

10) National Hero – Economics Quiz – What Malaysian Political Party Are You?, Malaysian Astronaut Cosmonaut Angkasawan and joking reference to Captain America

11) National Car – 70% tariff on imports and Wikipedia on Malaysia’s killer car tariffs, duties and taxes

12) Let Comatose Tigers Lie – PROTON loses top spot to PERODUA, EPF ownership of shares and Billions poured into PROTON

13) Your Oil Money – Economics Quiz – What Malaysian Political Party Are You?, Sarawak gets only 5% royalty from its petroleum and 1970 Sabah richest state, today poorest state

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14) Dialogue – Youtube Video Warning For Namewee (Negarakuku)

15) House of Worship – Bobjots: Orang Asli Church Demolishment

16) Do Not Disturb – Bumiputera Malaysia: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi sleeps when Malaysia is not OK

17) I Has A Nap – Bumiputera Malaysia: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi sleeps when Malaysia is not OK and based on this lol:

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18.) Dialogue 2 – Megaton Punch! UMNO Supporters Punch Guangming Daily Press Photographer

19) Keris Hero – Police Warn Against Race Baiting in 2008 General Election (Like That’s Gonna Stop UMNO) and Guitar Hero video game

20) My Pokémons – Lee Jeok: Malaysian Cabinet 2008 Chart and based on this lol:

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21) Officer On Duty – Lim Kit Siang on crime rate increase during Badawi’s four years and Bumiputera Malaysia: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi sleeps when Malaysia is not OK

22) Khalwat Alert – Perak Religious Department to Continue Raids on Hotels, and made more relevant by Beware: Khalwat for you, too

23) Our Next PM? – Badawi names Najib as his successor. If so, please kill me before I kill myself or his policies kill the nation. This guy…

• Criticized the Bersih rally as ‘not Malaysian culture’ and then said nothing when his UMNO buddies illegally rallied in Penang
• Called for the keris to be ‘bathed in Chinese blood’
• Blamed local floods on global warming instead of admitting BN responsibility for poor preparations
• Urged us not to vote Opposition even if BN is the suckiest suck to ever suck a suck
• See also Do you want Najib as your next PM? and Can the man with ‘no balls’ be prime minister? for much more rotten-nuttiness of Nut-jib.

24) M.A.H.A.T.H.I.R 1 – Mahathir asks Badawi to resign recently, and long history at Sean the Man: Mahathir vs Abdullah Badawi

25) M.A.H.A.T.H.I.R 2 – Saya Zalim Anwar Video: Dr. Mahathir Admits Arresting Anwar Ibrahim Without Cause? and based on joke from Seventh Rangers (Mechanized). (Boy, he sure doesn’t like his Deputy PMs eh?)

26) Khairys Angels – Wikipedia on Khairy Jamaluddin and Mat Rempit, MageP’s Lab: Mat Cemerlang’s clubs and Malaysiakini: Putera Umno’s glorification of Mat Rempit ludicrous. Title is a play on Hells Angels.

27) Not News – Haris Ibrahim has a concise summary of the blinders the MSM wears. 20,000 rallying at Anwar Ibrahim’s return to politics, and all the Government Enslaved Media (GEM) can focus on is the police response to it. But can’t really blame them, because if anyone dares cover it properly, they get their newspaper banned.

28.) National Service – IAmMalaysian on NS deaths which gets some info from Wikipedia, and NS doesn’t fulfill its main purpose of building unity.

29) Ketuanan Cina – See the titular post Ketuanan Cina and Ketuanan Melayu. Compare with Posters 2 and 19. The Chinese supremacist featured is Lu Bu.

30) Khairy Jamaluddin – See his blog here. Ironic because he called bloggers – you guessed it! – monkeys! See here and here for details. Excellent monkey pic from National Geographic.

31) Public Enemy #1 – Raja Petra Kamarudin Chooses Jail Rather Than Pay RM 5,000 Bail

32) Last Words –Latest Malaysian National Service Death, 9 May 2008. See also Poster #28 and its references.

33) May 13, 1969 – This one was a gift to Jed Yoong after she expressed her initial disbelief that a certain newspaper editor could trivialize May 13 as catching dragonflies. See A Day of Infamy That’s So Infamous, No One Knows What Happened Actually for facts.

34) 22 Is Less Than 5 – See Dr M Quits UMNO, Blames Badawi For 22 Years of Mahathirism

35) 22 < 5 – Same as above, only using mathematical symbols.

36) Temptresses – Mockery of claims made in School Uniform Causes Rape: Malaysian Pervert Group Leers at Underage Schoolgirls, Assumes Every Other Male is Just as Deviant

37) Preventing Rape – Refresh your memory at Veiling the Uncovered Meat

38) African Bumiputra – Although the Chinese in South Africa have one sixth the history as Chinese in Malaysia, they beat us to it. See Even Chinese in South Africa Considered ‘African Bumiputera’

39) Rape Deterrence – See the titular post Rape Deterrence’. Be sure to compare with Poster 36 and 37 above.

40) Whodunit? – See Seven Conspiracy Theories of the Anwar Sodomy Allegations and the major news shakeup of Anwar Accused of New Sodomy.

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41) Our Next PM? Statement – See major shocker Anwar: Najib Had Sex With Altantuya, Had Her Murdered To Shut Her Up!!!!

42) Our Next PM? C4 – Same as preceding.

43) Whodunit? 2 – See P. Balasubramaniam Retracts Statutory Declaration: Najib Didn’t Have Sex With Altantuya!

44) Class – Yeah, observe their high moral standards at Susan Loone – UMNO’s pornographic acts during nomination day.

45) DRaMa – Here we go again… Drama-laaah, Dr M! Mahathir Now Thinking of Rejoining UMNO

46) Monty Python – The Sun, Sin Chew Daily, Suara Keadilan Issued Show Cause Letters For ‘Sensitive Issues’

47) & 48) Pendatang – Pendatang (that is, Datuk Ahmad Ismail)

49) to 53) I Survived (Teresa Kok version) – They Survived ISA Detention! which has versions with the names of the survivors (Tan Choon Heng, Teresa Kok, Lim kit Siang, Kapral Singh)

54) Silence Him – Free Raja Petra Kamarudin Tribute Poster

55) Utusan Malaysia – Utusan Malaysia Issues Unsubtle Death Threat Against Teresa Kok, Defended by Rocky Bru

56) I Survived (RPK version) – Raja Petra Kamarudin Survived the ISA!

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57) Khalid Abu Bakar – Did the Police Move in During Negaraku? Watch Video, You Decide