Help return the favour to BP

[Magua]

I fuel up at shell most days anyway, can't get 95 at my local bp.

[Dafe]

Yada yada yada - It's still only 20 somethin' bucks to fill the buell from when the light comes on.

I wave my private parts at your fuel prices.

Yeah likewise, I wouldn't batter an eyelid if it was $2.50 a litre.
It's all good having a company car with company fuel card.

The occassional bike topup doesn't exactly break the bank......... Well not yet anyway!

[Finn]

And when will the Commerce Commission be brave enough to take on the cartel that is comprised of New Zealand oil companies? Even Gull, which is allegedly supposed to directly import its own petroleum products, is charging exactly the same as the big four. Maybe this left-wing Government could nationalise the whole business and sort it out once and for all.

Why would the lefties want to do drive down the price of fuel? They get their cut in taxes and GST. The more expensive it is, the more money they have to spend on buying votes.

[Squeak the Rat]

$20 to fill the bike maybe, but those trucks drink a lot of gas and pretty soon the price of everything is going to go up as transport costs are passed to customers. That means inflation. And all we can count on our left wing facist government to do is to let Mr Culen combat inflation with the only method he has - pull his interest rate lever.

Bring on the revolution.

[Hitcher]

Why would the lefties want to do drive down the price of fuel? They get their cut in taxes and GST. The more expensive it is, the more money they have to spend on buying votes.

But why let the multinationals make a profit when they could have all of that as well?

[saiko]

I wonder if this government would consider coming to the party. Perhaps the government could help by lowering the 70 cents per litre tax they charge the public. Petrol companies are charging about a dollar a litre now. The govt charges us the extra 70 cents. hence the $1.70/litre.

The people don't want it. National promised to lower petrol taxes, and drop income tax. People voted Labour, which means that the majority of NZ'ers want to pay lots in tax, and enjoy high petrol prices.

Mind you on election night the labour HQ was full of people looking like they just came straight from the local WINZ office. Ha. Tells you something.

[Motu]

And when will the Commerce Commission be brave enough to take on the cartel that is comprised of New Zealand oil companies? Even Gull, which is allegedly supposed to directly import its own petroleum products, is charging exactly the same as the big four. Maybe this left-wing Government could nationalise the whole business and sort it out once and for all.

I remember the debate when they deregulated the oil industry - to remove the monopoly of the oil companies,stop price fixing....at was all going to be a great benifit to the consumer.The oil companies have had it their own way ever since.The Drivers Union control over deliveries had been removed years before when they practicaly gave the trucks to the drivers and made them ownerdriver.They've been pretty smart over the years to set it all up their own way - once the Government released control it was all over.

[Fishy]

I just about always use Caltex so yep no problems avoiding BP!.

[The Stranger:Me]

You would probably be doing BP a favour if bikes didn't fill there.

[GR81]

i never use BP for anything... remember that old boycott email that went around? im still employing that motive
now that gas has gone up so much... i get 1 flybuy at Shell for filling up the bike

[Finn]

Actually, BP is the most environmental (cough) oil company? They have invested significantly in ulturnative energy sources such as Solar and in fact now own one of the largest solar producing companies on the planet. Did you know that BP (that big one down the motorway) run almost completely on solar energy?

It amuses me how kiwi's piss and moan about small stuff like petrol prices. Meanwhile the country is falling apart and you do and say nothing. Wake up you stupid sheep.

[Motu]

You could always get out and leave us too it.

[Blairos]

Too much of the gas price is TAX

Add to that, they charge GST on the petrol tax component as well - therefore a tax on a tax

The biggest issue I have is that the petrol tax we pay, is not allocated in its entirety to the upkeep of our roads, rather a good portion of it goes into the "Consolidated Fund" and is used for various things like Health, Unemployment etc etc - this is criminal - Road tax should be for roads!

[Finn]

You could always get out and leave us too it.

That's the plan. But first I've got some exploiting to do.

[roogazza]

As our friends at BP seem always to be the leader with petrol price rises,let's do our part to return the compliment,and never fill up at their stations.
There are plenty of other stations to go to.
Do your bit to screw them back.
Tell your friends too.

Ditto Pixie !!! been doing that for a while now....... G.