COMMENT | When the news about the government extending the petrol subsidy to include diesel, I was ecstatic.

I have not driven my truck for too long. I love my truck. I bought it years ago because growing up, one of my favourite movies was “Back To The Future”, and in it, Marty McFly (played by Michael J Fox), dreamt of having a pickup truck.

So, when diesel prices started increasing like crazy, I almost completely stopped driving my truck. My wife and I are lucky because our second car is an electric vehicle (EV), so we just use that car most of the time.

Honestly, we were already using the EV more even before the price increase because it just made more sense.

When Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim announced that diesel users would also start getting...