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As the title suggests, I was one of the few thousand dumb ass motorists who queued up for Shell’s $1 per litre offer on Saturday to the displeasure of others, especially public transport drivers. Seriously, I am not one of the many who find joy queuing for a good half hour while leaving our engine idling and wasting more fuel (and killing the environment) just to take advantage of such gimmicks. But when you fuel tank is about to be empty after procrastinating for days (my bad my bad), and your tight night activity requires long drives, I guess I don’t have much of a choice.

Of course another option is to pump elsewhere but I’d rather pump at Shell. Yes, they got me and I’m stubborn like that. Thankfully, there was a Shell station about a good 2km away from my home that does not cause much trouble to the other motorists. Hence, I decided to take that route. 20 minutes later, I departed happily with a full tank and looking forward to my night outing.

Left: Told you I was running out | Right: View of the queue at the back (see, clear road lanes, we don’t bug other motorists)

Left: View of the queue at the front | Right: Poor girl advertising for Shell under the scorching sun

Left: Nearing the station, and yes, its $1 per litre | Right: Waiting for my turn

Left: Shell engaged a number of Cisco Security folks to manage the queue | Right: My profit, it would have caused me a good $69

While passing by a Shell station on my way home and listening to the endless rants of the taxi uncle about how the government is screwing us with the increase in ERP, food, fuel (the list goes on) prices, I couldn’t help but noticed that the petrol pricing on Shell’s price board had changed.

Thinking that it was perhaps something I might have missed out a couple of days back, I popped over to our trusted media like the Straits Times and Channel NewsAsia to see what the heck was going on. However, after taking a quick look through, I was pretty upset to find nothing. It was until KP showed me a page from Shell about how lucky Singaporeans are considering that our petrol prices are far from being the most expensive in the world did I decide to probe further.

So still sticking around Shell’s website, I chanced upon their new pricing only to confirm that petrol prices did increase as of today. So for us drivers pumping Shell Formula 95, we will pay about $2.124 after discount… . So even with a discount, I would have to pay about $80+ to top my tank.