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    Quote Originally Posted by firefighter View Post
    really....? for me it would be bye bye cage...and definately keep the 250!
    Cant get the wife and kid around on my bike mate!

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    Quote Originally Posted by ManDownUnder View Post
    ... am I just being cybical ...
    Well if you are being "cybical" MDU you are probably out on your own. Kudos though, I think you have just invented a word.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy B View Post
    Well if you are being "cybical" MDU you are probably out on your own. Kudos though, I think you have just invented a word.
    LOL yaaaa woops - but yes... you're right. Cynical per Cybil (Fawlty Towers).

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    Quote Originally Posted by megageoff76 View Post
    Cant get the wife and kid around on my bike mate!
    ahhhh, true true, well there's always the sidecar option! hahaha, fair enough.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ManDownUnder View Post

    Should I be proud or embarrassed?
    How about a feeling of emproudment

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    Filling Betty up the other day cost me $40. I'll get 300km from that.

    Ten years ago, filling my Ford Laser cost me $40 and would get me 400km.

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    Quote Originally Posted by renegade master View Post
    you can give me your bike, i'll look after it i promise
    If I ever lose my mind and decide to give it away, then concider yourdelf at the top of the list mate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by skidMark View Post
    Running out of petrol = go to nearest gas station.

    Either way you have to pay it, who gives a shit. I mean c'mon.

    Oh noes 1 cent more than the other place, wow 17 cents extra for my entire fill up
    That's half your pocket money.

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    In my youf, well not that long ago, OK ten years, I had a twin turbo mitsi GTO. I sold it when gas hovered around 1 buck. That sucker would make me eyes water these days.

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    The thing you need to remember is that the pump prices are rising because the underlying product has become more valuable.

    If the kind folk of NZ don't want to buy petrol at the asking price, then the oil companies can easily sell it into other countries who will pay.

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    In Aus it's our wretched government taking an ever-increasing [but hidden] cut with their bloody taxes

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    Increase production of the oil fields off the coast of NZ

    Stop selling all the oil produced overseas

    Nationalise the petrol manufacturing facilities

    Ask countries like Equador how they supply their internal customers so cheaply

    Tell the "septics" and "camel jocks" to take a hike.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jrandom View Post
    Filling Betty up the other day cost me $40. I'll get 300km from that.

    Ten years ago, filling my Ford Laser cost me $40 and would get me 400km.

    That's because Betty has a bigger engine ya dozey bastard...
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    1c price difference!
    Over here locally, it's around $1.49.8 for 91, but in town its around $1.39.8 / litre.

    Guess where I try and fill up......

    Caltex seem to be the price jump leaders.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jimbo600 View Post
    However the worst pirate is Michael Cullen as something like 50% is tax. Excise tax first then GST, so you're paying GST on tax. Tax on tax so's to speak.
    So, er, how about those roads that keep breaking up? The concrete barriers we'd like instead of cheesecutters? Replacing shit-house chipseal with tarmac? Resealing a road instead of putting down so many tar-snakes that there's more tar than road?

    Where'd they get the money to do that again?

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