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29 Jun 2022 5:47 a.m.
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The Thai government is strange. Oil is expensive because the United States and Europe have combined economic, financial and energy sanctions against Russia. when oil is expensive Shipping costs are expensive. Traveling by car is expensive. The cost of living for people is expensive. Trouble in every country
Instead of the government to solve the problem of people's cost of living to reduce
which has many methods
Uncle Tu's government could only think of one thing.
Use the power to control the price of oil not to be more expensive.
Control the price of the product not to be more expensive.
Even though Thailand has to import more than 90% of crude oil from abroad, more than 1 million barrels per day, even if the refining cost is reduced, it cannot reduce the retail price of oil.
because crude oil must be imported from abroad
The seller sets the price.
We do not set prices.
So I don't know why we're arguing with each other.
oil refining cost
because it is not the cause or cause of the expensive oil
The price of crude oil is expensive.
The important point I think
General Prayut Chan-o-cha, who is both the prime minister and head of the economic team and his cabinet, has yet to think about it, is to think of "an alternative" to "lower the cost of living" for people affected by oil. expensive
In addition to reducing the price of oil by reducing taxes and using the oil fund to compensate
Today, the oil fund is negative for more than one hundred billion baht.
There is no bank to lend.
Either a state bank or a private bank
In fact, Thai retail oil is not more expensive than neighbors.
Every country uses expensive oil.
Thinking of reducing the cost of living, people have to find alternatives.
One way that I quickly thought
and saw the opportunity
Cost reduction is the transportation of goods by rail or rail, which now trains already have few passengers. Rail transport can greatly reduce transportation costs in times of high oil prices.
The train can transport a large amount of cargo at once.
save fuel
Cheaper than transporting by truck, dozens of times. The day before, Mr. Nirut Maneephan, Governor of the State Railway of Thailand (SRT), recently gave news that in 2022, the SRT aims to transport 12 million tons of goods by rail. Increase from 11.3 million tons in 2021. It is expected that next year 2023 will be able to transport 12.5 million tons of goods by rail.
I saw it and was shocked.
It's a very low number.
Compared with the whole country freight
Khun Nirut also revealed that freight or freight charges
Based on distance and weight, currently, SRT freezes fuel surcharges at 30/liter for 3 months from June to August.
Trying to pull goods from the road to change to transport by rail.
At this time, there are more than 10 charter customers who will contract with SRT. SRT has about 1,000 cargo bogies, which is quite tight.
Proposing to procure another 965 cars, amounting to 2.3 billion baht.
In fact, rail or rail transport is the cheapest way to transport. One freight train can carry more than 30-50 containers of cargo.
Compared to 30-50 trucks, China mainly uses freight trains.
The cost of transportation is very cheap.
As a result, Chinese products are cheaper as well.
Today, Thai products, such as durians, have to rely on bundling leaves, Laos-Chinese trains, carrying hundreds of thousands of tons of them to China.
Europe, which is tens of thousands of kilometers from China.
Today, China uses express trains to sell more than 40 routes to Europe from major cities in China.
On June 23, last week, Chongqing held a celebration of the 10,000th China-to-Europe freight express train from Chongqing to Duisburg.
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The world's crude oil will be expensive for a long time.
As long as the US hasn't lifted sanctions on Russia, I think Lung Tu's government should think about ways to "increase rail transport" to reduce shipping costs.
Replace trucks with expensive diesel fuel.
Reducing the cost of transportation can definitely help reduce the cost of living for people.
It's better than arguing over refining values.
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