"John Ward"
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Posted on:
Nov 16, 2007, 6:13 PM
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Hi Martin C,
"... If you are totally confused by all this, it means that you've got
about the same understanding of it as the average Australian.".
About the same prices, and cycle, here, mate, but us Queenslanders are
supposed to get an ~ 10 cents per litre discount from the State Government
(its been that way for decades, along with the discount on cigarettes...).
So, as many people are now asking up here in Brisbane, and have been
asking for a couple of years now, where's the discount????
Simple answer - to the Peter Beatty Queensland State Government coffers,
and now the Anna Bligh Queensland State Government coffers.
They get away with this in exactly the same way the petrol companies
do - smoke and mirrors, and no government, State or Federal, is interested
in pursuing them very rigorously, since these governments receive such a
huge amount of taxation revenue from every single litre of petrol retailed.
QED (quad errat demonstrandum), mate, the bastards!!!!
The sooner we develop, and implement, alternative energy sources the
better, since then, the oil-rich Sheiks, etc, can go fuck themselves,
instead of fucking everybody else, IMHO.
Regards,
John Ward
"Martin C" <mkcowley_remove_this_@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:14:24 GMT, "Canuck" <someone@shaw.com> wrote:
>
>>That works out at approx 79 cents (US) a litre bear in mind UK'ers that US
>>gallons are slightly smaller than UK gallons, but it boils down to the
>>fact
>>that we in Canada are being ripped off but that in the UK you are getting
>>royally screwed.
>>Would be interesting to hear other countries prices, perhaps someone with
>>MSExcel-pertise could run up a spreadsheet comparing prices including
>>relative currency exchange rates.
>
> In Adelaide, South Australia, we have a strange situation where the
> wholesalers vary the price to retailers over a weekly cycle, and this
> is reflected in the consumer price.
>
> As an example, I filled up on a Tuesday for $1.2399/litre, but on
> Friday, the same retailer was selling at $1.3499/litre (unleaded 91
> octane). A further wrinkle is that a major supermarket chain issues a
> voucher on your supermarket docket if you buy over $30 worth. That
> voucher gives you $0.04/litre off petrol sold at Shell petrol
> stations. Further, if you buy goods from the petrol station's store
> worth $4 or more, you get another $0.02/litre off your petrol price.
>
> The upshot is that I could have paid between $1.1799/litre and
> $1.3499/litre from that same petrol station that week, depending on
> the above-mentioned factors.
>
> The prices given are in Australian dollars, which are currently about
> 90cents US. Australian fuel prices are also varied according to some
> price in Singapore, but I am not sure exactly what that is.
>
> If you are totally confused by all this, it means that you've got
> about the same understanding of it as the average Australian.
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