Fuel prices.

[Motohaus]

get used to it not defending them but nz has some of the cheapest petrol in the world in england they are payingf $3.00 a liter
buy the end of year we will be paying $2.00 a liter and by xmas 2006 it will be $3.00 inline with rest of world got this from friend who works in the biz
if you really want to do something get rid of fuc@#*! labour with the kioto bullshit
worry more about the wire barriers along the motorways with have just been given the go ahead to be used over concrete barriers and ualso to be used on the shoulders to protect cars from going into the colverts drains and the like

[poorbastard]

Other places in the world mite pay more for fuel but then their pay is generally alot more as well. Shit $1.47 is bloody bad enough if it gets much higher there will be no more weekend riding for me. I can barely afford it as it is. Poor student and all.

[SARGE]

Other places in the world mite pay more for fuel but then their pay is generally alot more as well. Shit $1.47 is bloody bad enough if it gets much higher there will be no more weekend riding for me. I can barely afford it as it is. Poor student and all.

i think this whole fuel prices / Kyoto Treaty thing is funny as.. back when the Kyoto thing was getting voted on.. all the Greenie Hippy fucktards were all for it .. now that its hitting them in the wallet.. they are all bitching about it..

"no Blood for oil, but i reserve the right to bitch when i have to fill up my car.."

[poorbastard]

"no Blood for oil, but i reserve the right to bitch when i have to fill up my car.."

If it keeps going up like it is I may end up having to trade blood for oil

[SARGE]

If it keeps going up like it is I may end up having to trade blood for oil

wonder if you can donate Sperm in NZ.. seems a shame to let it all go to waste like this..

[idb]

wonder if you can donate Sperm in NZ.. seems a shame to let it all go to waste like this..

Just what were you actuall doing when you wrote this?

[jimbo600]

Right on no BP. Dirty money flogging maggots

[dhunt]

It's quite interesting really as Kiwi's seem quite placid about the whole issue, sure we complain (me included) but that's as far it goes.
My parents in the Philippines were saying that they tried to put up the petrol prices there and everyone striked/protested etc and accordly they were promptly lowered again. Maybe this is more what we should do? I.e more visual, get some media coverage etc.

[froggyfrenchman]

how bout a ride? how many bikes could we get to appear at parliment? im willn to bet each kber member knows 4 or 5 non member bikers that would be up for it

[SARGE]

there IS of course an Upside to this fuel crisis...

there has never been a better time to get great deals on V8 Holdens and Falcons, Turbo Riceboy cars and 4WD's...

[scumdog]

there IS of course an Upside to this fuel crisis...

there has never been a better time to get great deals on V8 Holdens and Falcons, Turbo Riceboy cars and 4WD's...

And being the winner I am I 'only' have a grand total of 20+ litres of various engines to 'feed'
And another 7 litre one in the wings, waiting....

[Lou Girardin]

And being the winner I am I 'only' have a grand total of 20+ litres of various engines to 'feed'
And another 7 litre one in the wings, waiting....

Time for a commision based salary package.

[bugjuice]

thing is, as good as it sounds on paper, it isn't really going to work.
The easiest way for this to fail (amongst many), is that;

a) BP start dropping in sales. So they pump their prices up to compensate. Other companies see this, 'If BP can do it, so can we..', so prices go up.

b) other brands are shopped, which leaves them running low. They have to start rationing gas in areas, or buy off others, such as BP..

c) the gas stations see a protest going on, and BP being avoided. So they hike their price up to take advantage..

And that's just before my brain starts thinking, and they will do it. why? cos they have us by the short n curlies, and they know it. I hate it so much. Fucks me off beyond reason, so I try not to think about it too much, and hope I get a payrise to compensate the fuel rise. Probably won't, but hey..

The only way I can think of anything happening and being effective, is to copy what happened in the UK in 2000, where a few guys just parked their tractors in front of the oil company gates, and then everyone went mad for a few weeks, then petrol dropped in price for a while.. If people want to make a dent, you have to make a bloody big noise. These fatcats don't hear anything below a million people in a place like NZ. It took 30 million for the UK to run it dry in a few days.. Some one has to have the balls to do something more drastic, than a bunch of people avoiding a company. Plus there's not enough people to make the slightest bit of noise by avoiding BP. You'd need all of Auckland to avoid it to start with, and how would you do that? banners by their stations? on the motorway? in the newspaper?

no. we need a cunning plan. so cunning, you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel..

[Postie]

the thing is, we get pissed off about our fuel prices soaring and the good old government don't help with their levies and GST, but thats life. Anyway as i was saying, the price of gas is going up in every country, not just NZ and they know that even if its double what it is now, people will still pay it as its a consumer product (to state the obvious)

anyway, heres where your hard earned green goes.

out of $20 in your tank

$9.47 is tax, that is GST, Petroleum Excise, National Land Transport Managment Fund, Petrol Fuels monitoring levy, ACC levy and Local authority tax............. or to sum up, GOVT FUCKING US.........

$8.27 is International Oil Producers Marging

$1 is the Oil Company Margin

$0.69 is the Service station margin

$0.57 is international freight and insurance...... ???? (insurance for gas???)

thuis data from this year but when fuel was $1.29 for 91 octane and taken from the MTA site.........

[Motu]

There was a hurricane in the US yesterday - today fuel goes up again...like,don't you have to buy a product at the increased price to pass it on - that fuel has been in the tanks all week.....Diesel now costs what 91 did just a few months ago.