"Toby Ponsenby" <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:fsb4ik$kf1$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Posted in response to someone recently on here crapping on about lack of
> a tax component to the fuel used by the Septics.
>
> <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/24/
> MNEUVPO10.DTL&tsp=1>
>
> or
>
> <http://tinyurl.com/39mq4f>
>
>
> So there.
> And aren't the numbers interesting.
Indeed. They're screaming about paying half the price we are paying
(imperial vs US galls taken into account). It;s an interesting exercise.
Did
our Gov (Hawkey from memory) put an ever increasing levy to maintain
"world
parity" code for ripp-off, or to get an ever increasing bounty?
The cost of fuel has far more reaching effects e.g. cost of food due truck
fuel cost inceases. This burden is chucked onto pensioners and other
low-income earners at the shop who may not even have a car (they use
public
trans****t I suspose), is that fair?
The kernel of the issue is the inherant unfairness of the tax-system on
fuel. If they want us to pay a tax to stop us wasting fuel, which is how
one
polly put it back in the Hawke govt IIRC, then *make sure* any "windfall"
tax gains do not double dip us at the food supermarkets.
Make no mistake, "battlers" will start avoiding large cars if it keeps
going, and its become apparent the Arabs have finally learned it's a
limited
resource, hence their resistance to increasing output. Surprised it took
this long.
From site:
"I think we've finally come closer, if not reached, a tipping point where
gasoline prices are affecting people's behavior," said Bill Leonard, a
member of the Board of Equalization. One evidence is the slight decrease
in
gasoline consumption for the past couple of years, he said"
This is one good outcome from the whole thing.
Jason
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