I know you are all sick of this topic (fuel prices) but...

[blossomsowner]

yes fuel prices are crazy high but i am interested if anyone knows the bonafide figures of what the petrol stations pay for it and exactly what taxes and how much the stupid moronic greedy bastard government takes

[Mom]

Sadly, the on the ground petrol station owners make but a few cents a litre. The petrol company owned stations obviously do a bit better.

The fuel companies are the ones that raise my ire. They react to crude oil going up in value within hours. I used to work in international banking. Any company worth its salt has forward cover in an attempt to slow the effects of currency movement on their profits.

Bottom line, we pay what we have to to get around.

Thankfully 2 wheels cost much less in petrol than other forms of transport!

[AllanB]

Never seen a poor petrol station owner. Never.

Don't even start me on the taxes on taxes relating to fuel. Oh sorry Helen calls some a 'levy' - definition of Levy - "to impose or collect a TAX by the use of authority or force".

I am in the very lucky position of having a company fuel card. However I can foresee the time coming when a weekly or monthly dollar value is placed on this.

[homer]

use it to the max while you can m8

[blossomsowner]

Never seen a poor petrol station owner. Never.

Don't even start me on the taxes on taxes relating to fuel. Oh sorry Helen calls some a 'levy' - definition of Levy - "to impose or collect a TAX by the use of authority or force".

yes but are you able to clarify a little more these taxes on taxes and so called levies

[rainman]

yes fuel prices are crazy high but i am interested if anyone knows the bonafide figures of what the petrol stations pay for it and exactly what taxes and how much the stupid moronic greedy bastard government takes

Have a look here.

Think it's still current info.

This pdf is also worth a look. Apparently our "stupid moronic greedy bastard government" takes less tax per litre than 22 of the 27 OECD countries.

[MacD]

Have a look here.

Think it's still current info.

This pdf is also worth a look. Apparently our "stupid moronic greedy bastard government" takes less tax per litre than 22 of the 27 OECD countries.

Oh come on, don't try to confuse us with facts. Everybody knows it's the government's fault!

[DingoZ]

Still it is somewhat of a laughing matter. (cause otherwise you'd be broken down crying somewhere through frustration)

I can still remember when petrol was .60cents a litre, when it was proposed to jump up to .75c a litre people said "yeah right". Then it jumped to .75c a litre. People complained for a little while, then there was talk of it going to .80c a litre, well the public outrage was enourmous, how can the fuel companies do this to the ordinary people. Then sure enough .80c was commonplace, then .85 then .90c a litre, and people were spouting doom and gloom at the looming spectre of $1.00 a litre.

Well tickle me sideways and call me a duster if the price of petrol didn't hit a $1.00 a litre, and what good did all the posturing and complaining and the public demonstrations do. Nada, bubkis, zip, zero. Even the so called blockades of petrol stations in Aus, did not have even the smallest ripple on the impact of the pricing.

So get ready, bend over, apply a liberal coat of vaseline, cause the price of petrol is just going to keep going up and up, to match the rest of the world.

Ho fuckin Ho merry christmas, Santa brings you a present of $3.00 a litre. While the politicians sit back on their $100.000.00 + salaries and chauffered driven chrysler 300c company cars, do they have to fork out for any petrol they use, NOPE. Do they have to try and budget with a mortgage, kids, fuel. Don't fucken think so. How about they take a pay cut down to the ordinary average wage in NZ, and have to pay a mortgage, and fuel like everyone else, then maybe then they might understand..... But then again highly unlikely really...

[Disco Dan]

Once upon a time it was possible to obtain 'old' company fuel cards and tape them back together and use them for a few weeks... but alas, companies became smarter and stopped giving them to lower down 'dodgy' employees to dispose off...

I reckon fish and chip shops will be the winners... what with all that veggy oil...

at least I can nip down the road to work and 'borrow' the car for an hour here and there and not worry about petrol... I should start timing my bike petrol stops with that of the company cars... ..skwurt for you.. skwurt for me...

[yod]

yeah cos they're not real people like you and me and they dont deserve their pay, they dont earn it, they just had their jobs handed to them on a platter....




feel free to go out there and do better....anyone

[skidMark]

Who cares even if it was $5 a litre we still have to buy it.

Put it in, get on with life.

No point getting upset about things you have no control over.

[skidMark]

Once upon a time it was possible to obtain 'old' company fuel cards and tape them back together and use them for a few weeks... but alas, companies became smarter and stopped giving them to lower down 'dodgy' employees to dispose off...

I reckon fish and chip shops will be the winners... what with all that veggy oil...

at least I can nip down the road to work and 'borrow' the car for an hour here and there and not worry about petrol... I should start timing my bike petrol stops with that of the company cars... ..skwurt for you.. skwurt for me...

Well it is a work VAN....

[DingoZ]

Who cares even if it was $5 a litre we still have to buy it.

Tell that to the struggling families out there, who are having a tough enough time making ends meet as it is now. When the difference between food on the table versus petrol in the car to get to work to be able to put food on the table gets to be a riduculous amount.


Put it in, get on with life. Yup for shortly, it will be too expensive to enjoy like we do now.

No point getting upset about things you have no control over. Absolutely correct, thats why I don't care....

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[Virago]

Never seen a poor petrol station owner. Never...

You're obviously not looking hard enough.

I'm guessing the owners of all the smaller suburban stations that gave up the struggle and closed down, are now living in off-shore tax havens?

[homer]

stupid question , but if it works for cars why not use LPG in a bike