I was just wondering. How many ministers and deputy ministers and what nots are there ? Let say 300 for example.
Out of this nearly all of them drive monteros or a vehicle that consumes the most amount of fuel and is expensive.
so we have 300 monteros. Lets say a liter of petrol costs 100 bucks.
a montero has a tank of 80 liters. On that 80 liters it runs about 400Km more or less.
lets assume the petrol is refilled every 3 days
for one montero, filled once costs 100x80=8000 rupees
so for the month, filled 10 times(30/3) costs 8000x10=80,000
am I right ?
so for the 300 vehicles for the month it comes to
80,000x300 = 24,000,000 per month on fuel
now as we know most of these ministers have more than one vehicle, one for the wife, one for the son, one for the daughter and one brother, one for the brother-in-law, one for the nephew and so on
so lets assume each of them have on average 4 vehicles, the kids need to show their friends they have a cool car, and it has loads of power, and the wife has to show her friends at hilton her husband has given her the best car, and so on.
so we’ll follow the same formula, let’s assume they all got monetros or a skylines, or a jags or bms
24,000,000x4=96,000,000 a month for all minister vehicles
let’s break it down for one
96,000,000 / 300 = 320,000 per minister per month for fuel for whole family
now we need to include the convoy vehicles
let’s put an average of 3 vehicles, these we’ll put a diesel something
let’s assume 5000 for fuel per tank and it’s filled twice a week
5,000 x 10 = 50,000 per vehicle per month
then for all three vehicles 50,000 x 3 = 150,000 per convoy per minister
so the total per minster for all vehicles per month comes to
320,000 + 150,000 = 470,000 rupees
is that ok ?
now lets take all of them together
470,000 x 300 ======
RUPEES 141,000,000 per month on fuel for ministers
or lets divide by 100 for US dollars
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1,410,000 US DOLLARS per month on fuel for ministers
1.4 Million US Dollars on fuel per month for ministers
I’m no math whiz nor am I a policy whiz I could be wrong, so please correct me if I am. Are these correct or have I gone way off ?
I would like to know the actual amount. Our tax rupees cover these or don’t they ?
If my thinking is incorrect please correct me.
Thank you
Dinesh
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A montero costs about 10 Million Rupees ? I recently saw a minister going in a BMW X5 Jeep is that double the price of the montero ?
Comment by Dilku — August 7, 2006 @ 9:16 am
Lol
nice calculation ! Is there some particular shed they pump from ?? like the army has their own ones?
Any way i wanted to suggest something.. How about taking the average salary structure of people in SL and calculating how much peopel hand in from taxes? If you take the employment levels and average it out in the worst case scenario for the taxes.. lowest that is.. I wonder how much the govt collects in that sence from people..
Comment by Blind Critic — August 7, 2006 @ 10:53 am
oh leave the poor ministers and MPs alone.
They should recieve an immediate Pay Hike IMO. i mean really, an average MP legally recieves half of that of his driver as wages. and we are wondering why they steal!! seriously, they should get about at least 0.5 Mill a month, then at politicos after this generation might stop stealing.
oh and news flash - there are unconfirmed reports that Commerce Minister Jeyeraj Fernandopulle is now the third richest man in Sri Lanka.
Comment by Deane — August 7, 2006 @ 2:58 pm
i don’t think they get all their fuel for free.
it is ceratinly better if they are paid better legally. way it is everybody has to steal.
Comment by sittingnut — August 7, 2006 @ 9:03 pm