Petrol Prices.What a scandal.

ibbo · Guru

Petrol Prices.What a scandal.

dave06 · Guru

it really is a joke and the oil companies, and government are having one hell of a laugh at our expense, they just set the prices at the level that they want and thumb their noses at us,

government is reliant on the revenue from the fuel so nothing is going to change there, oil companies are making squillions so they are not going to change

interesting show on the idiot box that caught my eye on the way to the showers last night, abhu dahbe is building a whole new city, completely solar powered and carbon neutral, all traffic will be non fuel related public transport and electrically driven,

power is to be generated with the largest array of solar panels in the world, I guess the excess would be stored in a few Eveready aa's out the back, under the plastic panel

interesting to note that the biggest supplier of oil to the world is going away from oil

mikeody · Veteran Member

Petrol is of course an 'essential' commodity that the vast majority of the population cant do without.
When governments surrender responsibility for such things to the private sector [no different from telecommunications, transport infrastructure, aged care, etc etc etc] and when at the same time a de facto monopoly exists, thats what you get - consumer rip-off or non-service.
Still sometime after we nomads are all dead and buried there will inevitably be a massive revolution - there has to be - pity I wont be around to take part.

mike and Judy · Guru

Totally agree with all the above,
BUT WORDS and LETTERS are NOT THE ANSWER
We have to fill our tanks and jerry cans and stop buying fuel for a week at least, in a united effort ALL TOGETHER,
suggested the first week of Feb, so what about we all make a date for June
then publicise it ???

enjoy your sunrisesM&J

dave06 · Guru

mate, name the week and I'm there, just not in april or august please, we are choofing off again in those months if not before, august is the big gathering at uluru and I think we are going back up to the high country in april not sure yet

Wombat 280 · Guru

dave06 wrote:

it really is a joke and the oil companies, and government are having one hell of a laugh at our expense, they just set the prices at the level that they want and thumb their noses at us,

government is reliant on the revenue from the fuel so nothing is going to change there, oil companies are making squillions so they are not going to change

interesting show on the idiot box that caught my eye on the way to the showers last night, abhu dahbe is building a whole new city, completely solar powered and carbon neutral, all traffic will be non fuel related public transport and electrically driven,

power is to be generated with the largest array of solar panels in the world, I guess the excess would be stored in a few Eveready aa's out the back, under the plastic panel

interesting to note that the biggest supplier of oil to the world is going away from oil

The reason they are down playing oil they can see that solar energy for basic electrical needs is coming on fast and unlike dear old OZ they want to be a world leader in the technology. Many of Australia's Keenest and Brightest minds in solar technology are currently over there working for the Arabs on their solar farms.

While Big Kev was handing out little pockets of money to all comers to put off a recession that we now have anyway, the lateral thinkers of the world are spending there dollars on future infrastructure and energy alternatives, not just a useless electric car.

The only people Kev helped in the money give away stakes was Korea, Japan , China, India. Lets face it there's bugger all made here to buy, even tonight's vegies and possibly the fish or stake to go with them was imported.

Cruising Granny · Guru

Since camping in Cairns over the last 7 months, the price of diesel has dropped from 1.79.9 cents per litre down to 1.31.9 c/l, less the Woollies discount. It's almost exciting pulling up to the pump to fill up, after paying up to 1.80c per litre in some places. I won't even mention the Nullarbor.
When I left Broome in Aug 07, I filled up at 1.42.9 C/L. I've travelled around this country when the fuel was at it's hightest, so any travel I do from now on will be easy as far as my diesel fund goes.

Wombat 280 · Guru

Wombat 280 wrote:

dave06 wrote:

it really is a joke and the oil companies, and government are having one hell of a laugh at our expense, they just set the prices at the level that they want and thumb their noses at us,

government is reliant on the revenue from the fuel so nothing is going to change there, oil companies are making squillions so they are not going to change

interesting show on the idiot box that caught my eye on the way to the showers last night, abhu dahbe is building a whole new city, completely solar powered and carbon neutral, all traffic will be non fuel related public transport and electrically driven,

power is to be generated with the largest array of solar panels in the world, I guess the excess would be stored in a few Eveready aa's out the back, under the plastic panel

interesting to note that the biggest supplier of oil to the world is going away from oil

The reason they are down playing oil they can see that solar energy for basic electrical needs is coming on fast and unlike dear old OZ they want to be a world leader in the technology. Many of Australia's Keenest and Brightest minds in solar technology are currently over there working for the Arabs on their solar farms.

While Big Kev was handing out little pockets of money to all comers to put off a recession that we now have anyway, the lateral thinkers of the world are spending there dollars on future infrastructure and energy alternatives, not just a useless electric car.

The only people Kev helped in the money give away stakes was Korea, Japan , China, India. Lets face it there's bugger all made here to buy, even tonight's vegies and possibly the fish or stake to go with them was imported.

Dave
Have a go at this article that only managed page 7 of the Telegraph today . I did mention ear;ier that Australia's brightest minds were on the job at Abu Dhabi particapting in the competition to design and build solar farms.

Crazy as it may seem but a searched other sites to see who won found nothing, so a page 7 mention in our top morning paper is right up there in keeping with down playing Australian achievements in any field I suppose.

Worth noting the second place prize is less than 0.000001% of the Arab investment on this one solar energy design experiment so far .

dave06 · Guru

it continuously astounds me to think we have the brightest minds in the world at anything that anyone would like to mention and yet we outwardly discourage them at every turn

we are the worlds best at almost any sport, we have the best scientists (all getting shut down at a rapid rate of knots) we have the best inventors and yet they must go overseas to have the invention to be even looked at. the brightest minds in the world are right here

we are tottally self sufficient in all minerals and oils and yet we export only to reimport at an inflated rate, we refuse to invest in our own people we refuse to value add to anything

japan has nothing and yet they are or were amongst the richest people on the planet "WOT THE" ok we helped a lot after the second world war but they were OUR IDEAS, we sell off our minerals and oils at a pittance and then pay "world parity prices" to get it back

absolutely bloody ridiculous, we pay our politicians big money to shaft us at every turn!!!

Road Ranger · Senior Member

Treason is the word your looking for I think, in my opinion most Polly's are guilty of it, when the Howard gov have himself the big back pat for selling OUR natural gas to the Chinese for what was it? 3 cents a litre? we should be paying that for it not 75 cents

dave06 · Guru

treason indeed, and granny when you mention it being a pleasure to fill up at the pumps, I have found a new, very strange emotion overcoming me, it is one of fuel pump impatience, I use roughly $50 per week driving to and from work everyday, so I put $50 in, I find myself getting angry at the pump because it is so slow at ticking over the dollars and then at times it wont let me get $50 in the tank, I just want to get the $50 in and go on my way end of story just let me do it and leave me alone!!!

now how stupid is that......................I look in the mirror and just go duhhhhh!!!!! you idiot, just another modern world frustration, I'm going mad one step at a time!!!