Another 10 cents per litre.

[jafar]

Meh it's not so bad. It usually costs me $10 for near 300kms, like anybody who rides a motorcycle ever cares about the price of petrol? OK, maybe some thou riders.

The reason for the tax is to build new roads. Why are we complaining? Less congestion and cagers clogging up the roads, for about a dollar every week? Care-factor=0.

New roads have already been paid for by the petrol tax / diesel tax / road user charges etc that we have all paid . This is just another tax grab & will make no difference to the roads @ all.... 10 cents per litre + tolling the roads that we have already paid for , what a crock
Current political policy is to redirect monies collected from the roads to the consolidated fund , there is no reason to think the policy will change.

There are liars, damn liars & politicians

[oldrider]

Anyone know where the boundary between "Auckland" and "not Auckland" will be? I think I'll buy a petrol station just south of that line....

Just heard on the news TV1 budget report, that the Southern boundary for Auckland will be Wellington.

The Northern boundary for Wellington will be Auckland!

Have they missed anybody? John.

[xwhatsit]

You're not seeing the point, possibly because your bike has 1800cc. These are new, big, massive roading projects, that could be done with the existing taxation but it would take much longer; meanwhile the traffic is getting worse and worse. I'm glad they're actually doing something instead of procrastinating (which is what they've done in Auckland for years). This 10c per litre helps to get there a lot faster. I thought the tolls had been done and dusted?

Consolidated fund, blah blah blah. Again, pointless. So the money from the road tax gets spent on, e.g., education. Well that's good, because that way the money from education won't be spent on the health system. Don't you see the point? Simple finances; net money comes in, net money goes out. Who cares where it comes from, it's all consolidated in its own way and all gets spent where it needs to be spent.

[jimbo600]

Good ridance, you'll raise the IQ levels of both cuntrys when you leave.

By the way, can you take some pictures of me ridin' me bike?

Sure. Need a big lens to get some pics from Canberra though.

[more_fasterer]

Simple finances; net money comes in, net money goes out. Who cares where it comes from, it's all consolidated in its own way and all gets spent where it needs to be spent.

Absolutely. Which is why the govt. had a $6.5 billion surplus for the eight months up to february this year.

[Patrick]

Just heard on the news TV1 budget report, that the Southern boundary for Auckland will be Wellington.

The Northern boundary for Wellington will be Auckland!

Have they missed anybody? John.

The southern boundary for Wellington will be the bottom of Stewart Island??

[avgas]

No, but you DO live in Hamilton

Is that the place in between Huntly and Taupo?

[Lias]

Best law labour have ever introduced.

I've long been a very staunch advocate of higher prices for Auckland.

Auckland needs more power, so they are railroading new pylons through the waikato despite massive opposition. As far as I'm concerned they should underground it the entire way, and just charge aucklanders more for their power.

Aucklanders need new public transport and more motorways? Guess what it should all come from auckland only petrol taxes. You guys are bikers and only use a fraction of the petrol that cages do anyways, so uncle chopper definitly says harden the fuck up.

It's not just an anti auckland thing thou, I also think that farmers should be forced to pay the full cost for delivery of power and phone to rural locations, rather than urban dwellers subsidising them as it currently is.

[avgas]

This 10c per litre helps to get there a lot faster. I thought the tolls had been done and dusted?

Route PKJ or whatever has a toll
Fact of the matter is that it never works. I've seen it done too many times and fail before. Had a claim on ACC lately? That increased a fair wack a while ago. There always has been (since we needed to put aside money for roading) a road tax of 4 cents. I realise that the population has increased but so has the income from this tax.
Also in terms of us getting better roading - we had it, back in the 90s'. All they do now is take my corners away to save the idoits who are allowed to drive. If the corners are such a hazard then how come pissed parrots only crash on them Transit?
Dont forget your GST, income tax (to stop you earning more) and now a retirement scheme (because the govt cant afford it no more).
I'm giving this cuntry 2 years to sort its shit out. Otherwise i will go elsewhere and ditch this dump (for the rest of the world)

[avgas]

It's not just an anti auckland thing thou, I also think that farmers should be forced to pay the full cost for delivery of power and phone to rural locations, rather than urban dwellers subsidising them as it currently is.

Really, i dont mind that concept (seeing as most rural dont even have decent dial up yet). Seeing as a fairly large percentage of beneficary NZ live in urban areas.

[Patrick]

Is that the place in between Huntly and Taupo?

Could be... always covered in fog, so a little hard to tell...

[peasea]

Lets just hope this petrol tax actually gets used on roading and transport unlike the current petrol tax that was supposed to get used on roading and transport........

FAT CHANCE!!

We run four vehicles, two bikes, two cars, one of them a V8. We use the V8 for touring so we can grab the first few litres near home, head out of town and fill up. They'll have to fight pretty hard to get that extra ten cents from us!

We're outta town at Christmas anyway.........

[ZeroIndex]

Best law labour have ever introduced.

I've long been a very staunch advocate of higher prices for Auckland.

Auckland needs more power, so they are railroading new pylons through the waikato despite massive opposition. As far as I'm concerned they should underground it the entire way, and just charge aucklanders more for their power.

Aucklanders need new public transport and more motorways? Guess what it should all come from auckland only petrol taxes. You guys are bikers and only use a fraction of the petrol that cages do anyways, so uncle chopper definitly says harden the fuck up.

It's not just an anti auckland thing thou, I also think that farmers should be forced to pay the full cost for delivery of power and phone to rural locations, rather than urban dwellers subsidising them as it currently is.

What he said

[oldrider]

FAT CHANCE!!

We run four vehicles, two bikes, two cars, one of them a V8. We use the V8 for touring so we can grab the first few litres near home, head out of town and fill up. They'll have to fight pretty hard to get that extra ten cents from us!

We're outta town at Christmas anyway.........

But it's not just 10c, because the 10c/ltr is at the wholesale rate and there is multiple GST on top of that, they are really putting the screws in tight apparently.

So I heard on the radio this morning, glad I don't live up there! John.

[MSTRS:Me]

The reason for the tax is to build new roads. Why are we complaining? Less congestion and cagers clogging up the roads, for about a dollar every week? Care-factor=0.

Huh? That is the head-in-the-sand attitude that helped develop the problem with Auckland roads in the first place. Improve the roading and more people will drive = back to the same old problem.
The answer lies in an integrated public transport system that is convenient to use.
It'll never happen tho.