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Also, what happens if you dont have a choice????

That e-mail must have been made by someone in the cities....

Not Canberra - Fuel here is closer to $1.50 for std unleaded, $1.10 would be a dream. Anyway, most of these have been debunked in one way or another. It's not going to make a scrap of difference who sells the petrol as to what the price is.

Oh, and yeah, my eyes hurt too.

Ps - notice the 'sponsored by Caltex' watermark on the last page.

I don't think it'll catch on, purely because it takes too damned long to read the whole thing.

Also, we may have more petrol now than we had 50 years ago, but we've also got a sh1t load more people buying it. And really when you think about what goes in to manufacturing it, $1.50 a litre is pretty cheap. I'm not saying I like filling up, but things could be worse...

$1.50 isnt cheap when it costs them like 5c a liter to make.

There ripping us off, plain and simple. But what can we do about it.

alexxx wrote:

its not just the petrol companies, the government takes out some rediculous figure (something like $0.80) per litre!

If this 'petrol tax' goes back into our roads, I dont mind paying a bit extra. I dont know about you eastern states yobo's but our roads in WA are 1000% better than (for example) Sydney streets which is the only place I can compare it too.

if it gets ridiculous take your plates of and do drive bys. QLD has always had cheap petrol compared to other staes as the government doesnt pass on alot of takxes which people liek us NSW recieve.  when i first got my license lastr yr petrol was 1.20 and i was like f**k this is dear now its creaping up to 1.50 its daylight robbery. but people are right what can you do. if it gets to 1.70 id really contenplate drive bys.

Have alook at some of the budgetting for road repairs and such, then compare that against the Government sallaries, and budgets for "caucus meetings". They piss away more cash on themselves then they put into the community.

Edited: Cheers protest.

Suprauc wrote:

$1.50 isnt cheap when it costs them like 5c a liter to make.
There ripping us off, plain and simple. But what can we do about it.

There's a lot more to it than that. Scarcity, refinery costs etc. play a big part in it.

And if they aren't making any money, why would they bother? I mean, it's a business everyone is trying to run.

BP owns all the fuel in WA anyway. So they can't really lose.

My closest town only has one fuel station.

A fuel station makes less than a cent a litre out of the fuel on the bowser, nearly all profit is generated through the shop.

I do roughly 1000k/week - I also live rurally, so I know all about the sting. I filled up with BP Ultimate this morning, it was $1.64.

By the way mate, I think you are chasing 'caucus'.

I also think the point was lost in the completely retarded layout of the document.

Emails similar to this were circulating the UK 5 years ago. They did SFA.
Some people (farmers IIRC) even tried to block the refineries in protest with big trucks. All that did was cause the fuel to sell out in the cities and cause big ass queues, with only emergency services and nurses being able to get petrol for 2 or 3 days (again IIRC) unless you knew someone...

Unfortunately we either vote in a government that doesn't tax the hell out of the fuel in the first place or drive less or drive more economical cars.

PS fuel in the UK is now ~$2.50 a litre...(for 95 RON not POS 91 that is standard over here.)

Petrol Prices explained, FuelWatch


UK breakdown @ 90p/litre:

I think WA is the only state that has Fuel Watch too. I wouldn't hold your breathe for the tax to be reduced.

As mentioned in that Fuel Watch report though, and is good to note again, with our dollar being so strong at the moment we really should have been seeing an easing of the price.