DAMN FRIGGIN OIL COMPANIES

**Drunken Monkey** · 12th May 2004, 09:33

Originally Posted by marty

although when i was in the UK in dec 2002 it was costing .80p for a litre of regular 91. that was $2.40 a litre converted! it was costing me more to run a rented vauxhall corsa - 3 door 1300cc than it does to run my V8 commodore

That was a spanky vauxhall corsa! The one I rented was a 3 door, 3 cylinder 1000cc version! Still did 92 miles an hour, foot to the floor...

**Marmoot** · 12th May 2004, 09:34

That's a bit far-fetched for me at the moment.
The current concern is how to be able to save for my retirement when my wages don't go up as much as the petrol price hike.
Imagine that, if we go by petrol prices, we have had 35% inflation for the past 5 years alone.....

**Drunken Monkey** · 12th May 2004, 09:39

Originally Posted by Hitcher

I hope all you Aucklanders enjoy the roading network the rest of us motorists are subsidising for your driving/riding pleasure...

Other way round, buddy! More than half the national total road tax revenue comes from Auckland (can't remember the exact figure quoted in the report, but it was over 60%).

Still, I couldn't get over the length of the traffic queue going into Wellington that Easter Sunday down SH1. Bumper to bumper all the way from Paraparaumu...

**Hitcher** · 12th May 2004, 10:16

Originally Posted by Drunken Monkey

Other way round, buddy! More than half the national total road tax revenue comes from Auckland (can't remember the exact figure quoted in the report, but it was over 60%).

You're forgetting the surcharge specifically levelled on the rest of us...

**James Deuce** · 12th May 2004, 10:21

Originally Posted by Drunken Monkey

Still, I couldn't get over the length of the traffic queue going into Wellington that Easter Sunday down SH1. Bumper to bumper all the way from Paraparaumu...

It's been like that for 15 years, every flaming holiday break.

**vifferman** · 12th May 2004, 10:38

Originally Posted by Marmoot

$1.33 per litre 98.........

70litre tank on a sportscar

Yeah, I filled the wifie's Peugeot up yesterday. Er, that is, I intended to fill it up, but the dials were racing around so fast, I panicked, and stopped at $50. By the way - I must've picked an expensiver station - it was $1.34/litre. Bastids.

**vifferman** · 12th May 2004, 10:42

Originally Posted by Drunken Monkey

Other way round, buddy! More than half the national total road tax revenue comes from Auckland (can't remember the exact figure quoted in the report, but it was over 60%).

The annoying thing is that they're busy debating ways to fund roading improvements, when less than a third of the road tax portion of the petrol taxes is actually spent on roading. AND there's an additional surcharge of a few cents a litre which was supposed to be for Auckland's roading woes, which has gone.... where...??? AND the GST is calculated on top of everything else, so every time the price goes up, we're taxed more.

BASTIDS!!!

**Coldkiwi** · 12th May 2004, 12:51

perhaps its time for Mr cullen to pull his over inflated head and budget surplus in to absorb some of these costs then????

How the hell does one end up 7.4 BILLION dollars in credit without providing some massive tax cuts at the end of it... with 4 million people here (assuming we're all tax payers) we could all have $2000 back in our pocket this year!!! That'd cover the fuel bill nicely thank you.

**Deano** · 12th May 2004, 13:10

Originally Posted by Drunken Monkey

Other way round, buddy! More than half the national total road tax revenue comes from Auckland (can't remember the exact figure quoted in the report, but it was over 60%).

Still, I couldn't get over the length of the traffic queue going into Wellington that Easter Sunday down SH1. Bumper to bumper all the way from Paraparaumu...

"Straight" Highway 1 you mean - Paekak Hill is much more fun.

I don't even take the car up SH1 !!

**Marmoot** · 12th May 2004, 13:24

Originally Posted by Coldkiwi

we could all have $2000 back in our pocket this year!!! That'd cover the fuel bill nicely thank you.

I'd even be very happy with $500 back..........
It feels like milking a stone, eh?

**Big Dog** · 12th May 2004, 16:15

Originally Posted by Jim2

"Well it all comes from the same refinery, and we really can't be bothered competing on a brand basis in NZ so we decided to just charge the same, and jack the price when we think we can get away with it".

Or try this on for size instead (purely hypothetical).
"Existing fuelstocks will only take 20 years to completely deplete at current consumption, assuming no growth, when there has been a 20% annual growth in demand for the last 10 years. And only us and 5 other companies have the resources to develop, refine, distribute petrol, like it or lump it cos in 20 years we will be out of a job unless an alternative is found soon that we can still distribute through our existng network. Oh and Helen is taking 43%!"
It aint pretty but if I owned a oil company that is pretty much how I see would it.

**Drunken Monkey** · 13th May 2004, 09:14

Well then...I stand corrected!

We've had it fairly cheap for a while, granted some of the roading is shocking where it shouldn't be and there are some fancy expensive roads where they needn't be. Road Tolls and increased fuel bills are just something we'll have to learn to live with. Still, none of us appreciate being given the run around about where our tax dollars are going.