Well wouldn't this make motorcycling much more fun

[Scuba_Steve]

Since you wanted to live in a scenic paradise with empty roads, you pay more for petrol because it has to be transported to those locations. "User pays" is the term, apparently.
Auckland has a pipeline direct from the refinery (when some yokel hasn't fucked it with his digger...).

'Cept that has little to do with the way petrol is priced... It's more to do with "there's not much choice so we can rape them", or "they can afford to pay more so lets rape them"

[pritch]

I can easily become a fuckwit and toat up a huge backlog of fines .How long before I get sent away for a holiday ?

Nah. I had dealings with a hit and run through work. The Police were glad to get the complaint, "We've been after him for a long time". So they charged him with failing to keep left.
When I asked what happened at court I was told he failed to appear and the new fine was added to the $6,000 that he already owed - and wasn't paying.

A solicitor of my acquaintance was saying one of his clients owed over $10,000 in accumulated fines. Mostly no warrant or Rego etc, apparently they rack up quickly, but his client didn't click that his shit box car is like a magnet to a bored cop.

When a judge does put someone on PD to work off the fines, if you divide the amount owed by the hours awarded you could be forgiven for thinking the guilty party was a heart surgeon.

[Swoop]

Hardly what I would call wasted.

However they continue to gather the $$$'s from the last price hike, and now return to increase that amount again.
Double-dipping?

[granstar]

Hey, just in jest but maybe I'm onto something?

Just don't drop the soap.