• Sri Lanka

    Posted on May 28th, 2008

    Written by Acromantula

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    I got this mail from D this evening and it really made me sit up..

    > > > Dear Friends !!!
    > > >
    > > > Petrol in Pakistan Rs. 17 per litre
    > > > Malaysia Rs. 18 per litre
    > > > In India it’s Rs. 48 per litre
    > > > In Sri Lanka it is Rs. 157 per litre
    > > >
    > > > Why this difference in Asia itself?
    > > > World Market CRUDE Oil is not
    > > > the reason for this.
    > > > It’s all Gain for private owners?
    > > > As we are the general public, or
    > > > Common Man as R.K.Laxman would
    > > > have said, we have to raise our voice,
    > > > let’s raise thru Emails.
    > > >
    > > > Forward this to all
    > > > Indians (and Sri Lankans ???) who cares.

    (To make a long story short) it asked every one not to buy Petrol Next Friday ..

    India 48 Rs and 157 Rs in Sri Lanka?

    NO WAY…

    Then I did some research and actually In India the Price is 48 but in Indian Rupees… So Comparatively the Price I Sri Lanka is around 50 Rs..

    Why do people write stuff that like without thinking… This mail was forwarded to at least 300 people down the chain. (and imaging how many ppl those 300 mailed it to) Apparently no one has bothered to really figure out why..

    So I did the Socially Responsible thing and “replied everyone” along with the people who has forwarded the mail to others down the chain (I tried to copy the “To Section” down in the chain.. but yahoo uses a cute little trick to prevent those kind of copies)..

    10 minutes later I get a mail from D screaming bloody Murder… lol.. Apparently I was being insensitive (and showing off) by replying to everyone in her mail list, but someone has to put an end to this. So it may well be me!!

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  • 2 Comments

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    1. niroshinie
      May 28th
      Reply

      haha yes i got this one today as well. Apparently this is a very old mail thats being circling around…They’d just change the current price for fuel in SL

    2. Nishadha Silva
      May 29th
      Reply

      Actually even in Indian Rupees price would be around 62 , so thats more than 20% high. Converting currencies isn’t enough too , you have to compare average salary levels etc , and in that regard I guess we are below India , But you got a very good point about forwarding mails without doing some investigations , so many just press the forward button.

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