"Scotty" <scoter1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Albm&ctd" <alb_mandctdNOWMD@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> : ULP prices:
> :
> : May 11 2004
> : Brisbane 89.7
> : Refinery price 34.3
> : Tax 37.9
> : Shell and retail margin 17.4
> :
> : May 16 2004
> : Brisbane 96.1
> : Refinery price 34.3
> : Tax 38.5
> : Shell and retail margin 23.2
> :
> : May 28 2004
> : Brisbane 91.0
> : Refinery price 50.5
> : Tax 38.1
> : Shell and retail margin 2.4
> :
> : Today April 28 2008
> :
> : Brisbane 137.1
> : Refinery price 87.4
> : Tax 42.3
> : Shell and retail margin 7.4
> :
> : What do you make of that, paper hat.. aeroplane?
> : Al
> : --
> : I don't take sides.
> : It's more fun to insult everyone.
> : http://kwakakid.cjb.net/insult.html
>
> Hmm, lets see, the Govt is making more tax and why wont they force the
fuel companies to reduce the
> prices?
> And I find it very hard to belive that its THAT much more to produce the
petrol. I mean refineries
> have better processes these days to make fuel cheaper than ever before.
If the people that worked
> there werent to damn lazy then the fuel may go down approx 2c/litre and
if
they weeded out all the
> dead wood from Supply to Retail then that would take another 5cents off,
Im sure that if they REALLY
> wanted to they could supply petrol as low as $1litre at the moment. Why
dont they? Well cause then
> there would be another 1000 or so bums at centrelink and the
shareholders
wouldnt get thier nice
> dividends each 3 months.
>
> Paper hat Id say!
Nahh, paper-plane, then throw it at the petrol tax-man. It was Hawkey who
tied our petrol pricing thru taxes "to the rest of the world" IIRC to"not
let Australians get a valuable resource too cheaply,..as it doesn't
promote
frugality of petrol use" It wasn't exactly word for word, but Hawke did
say
something like that whilst PM.
Jason
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