I suppose that most of you would have seen the re****t from the Caltex
spokesman that
fuel prices would rise to $3.00 a litre.
What a brilliant marketing move.
You have most people now complaining about the $1.40 a litre and about how
the ACCC
is not doing their job properly,
So, in comes this marketing ploy, telling everyone that even though you
are
complaining about the price now, wait for a little while and the price is
going to go
to $3.00 a litre.
This in effect, susbdues thte population into thinking they are getting a
great deal
now at $1.40 as the price will go up and they are sooooo lucky now to get
it at
todays prices.
I also believe what they are doing, is telling the people, that they, (
the oil
companies), don't give a **** about the ACCC and they will lift the price
when and by
how much that they wish.
They know also, that the ACCC, does not have the power to force the oil
companies to
ease prices, , lower them, or keep them at a steady rate for any length of
time.
Why we have to adhere to the overseas pricing of petroleum products is
beyond me,
especially when we have out own oil and gas reserves.
Anyone got any connections with a ****pping company or do you have a spare
oil tanker
sitting around doing nothing?
If so, then clean it out and go to Venezuela and pick up a lod of fuel
there, already
refined for 12 cents a gallon 4 litres
copied from a web page:
>>Taxi driver Jaime Tinoco works the streets of Caracas in a 1976 Chevy
Nova that
>>guzzles 19 gallons (72 liters) of gas a day. But he doesn't worry about
fuel
>>efficiency -- filling his tank costs just $2.30.
While US consumers struggle with soaring energy prices, Venezuela's gas is
now the
world's cheapest at 12 cents a gallon and Wa****ngton's regional foe,
President Hugo
Chavez, vows to maintain subsidies that keep fuel dirt-cheap.<<
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