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Cheap piss 4 kidz!
some of those people, those Tarago drivers with a wheelchair in the back* and five kids – some of them ONLY HAVE ONE GUITAR!!!
* idiot, obvs
Swan kicked arse on 730 report. Better than Rudd’s been doing on it.
Now, Im not exactly the petrol price commissioner, but I seem to recall that Market Economics 101 involves a presumption that consumers have info about their choices. The reosumption is necessary, otherwise, the whole theory goes to shit.
Why then, are some allegedly well-informed heads advocating the continuance of pure consumner ignorance? I for one never know thing one about the price until I turn up. And isnt the evidence from WA that there was a 1.9c advntange to consumers, on average?
I must be missing the ‘no fuel watch’ case.
Lefty E, the line the ALP are running that the ACCC found a 1.9c decrease is bunk. The ACCC report actually said the price could rise.
The most likely outcome will be the average price is the same as now, except people wont be able to take advantage of the low points in the cycle anymore.
Theres also evidence the major oil companies in WA are hedging by running one price in half of their stations, on one day, and another price the next day. Small independents cannot do this and so they are going out of business.
And will the Federal libs urge their WA Counterparts to pledge to axe WA’s Fuelwatch scheme if they’re re-elected, especially since it was Richard Court’s Government which introduced it in the first place
I filled my car at the local Shell servo west of Sydney last night (Tuesday night). This is normally the cheapest price point of the week and has been for quite some time.
I noticed the price had only come down couple of points icne the high price point. When I asked the manager what had happened to ‘cheap Tuesday’, he said that as a result of Fuelwatch, the federal government and the ACCC, cheaper fuel days were soon to be a thing of the past. He said all days will have the high price points.
Asking working families if they think a cut in the fuel excise might make a bit of a difference is a ridiculous proposal. Last I checked, the RBA didn’t have any economist who are wheelchair bound parents of five.
Rodney, so he told you this, despite the fact the ACCC has done shit all, Fuel Watch hasn’t started yet, and neither has the federal government?
Cripes. I hope you didn’t believe him.
Imho, people frankly need to harden the fuck up. Petrol is being heavily speculated in, ergo prices are rising, the solution is simple: don’t speculate in it: drive less where possible.
As for Brendan’s “Five cents is the difference between life and death for these gutsy, little aussie battlers in Struggle Street!!!”, assuming a fuel tank size of 70 litres, that’s a HUGE OMG!!! difference of $3.50 every time the tank is completely filled up.
$3.50. Fuel is cheap. People should check out the prices in Europe to get some perspective.
However Brendan likes to spin it, a 5c per litre excise cut on petrol is about $2.50 off the price of a fill-up. $20 a week tax cut is a far, far bigger removal of imposts on “working families”.
Robert, the tax cut was not Labor’s though.
Also, if you use a tank a week, thats $130.
Which is better than a $20 tax cut.
Never mind, i’m a dickhead
lol
Welcome to the end of days, Petrolheads.
What sort of wheelchair runs on petrol anyway? Special Liberal party one?
[What sort of wheelchair runs on petrol anyway? Special Liberal party one?]
I think he’s referring to the Wheelchair owned by one of the 5 kids in the back of the Tarago.
Lefty E: fear not, there’s always more opportunities for the petrolhead.
You would not believe the performance modifications you can get for 125cc motorcycles in Asia
jesus christ that was painful to watch. I hope for his sake it didn’t get replayed on the commercial news channels.
Actually, I would Robert. Every man and his chicken is on one in Dili!
Back to the post: doesn’t 9 of 100 come up an absolute toolbag in that clip?
Maybe the poor huddled wheelchari-bound Tarago masses could drown their sorrows in Alcopops?
LE: This one’s pretty good too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnztBEGRKwg
Thanks Laura, what a big wet lefty welfare sponge he is! Those young guns attacking Ballieu should do up a site.
It might be time for a Nelson inspired song, along the lines of “give me a home among the gum trees”
Give me a home amongst the huddled,
three am cuddled,
a fuel cut there for your old wheelchair
Tarago out the back, alco-pops are for the shunt,
and the joy that is my hair.
“Swan kicked arse on 7.30 report”
Yea Wayne’s the guy.
One comment though on the YouTube link asks if he has wig on ?
Wig, plugs or just weird dye job?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ILOoPE_PYc&NR=1
Not very Prime Ministerial, is he? I was reminded of Andrew Peacock’s “a very serious matter, a very serious matter”, or the occasional tantrums that Kim Beazley would throw in order to look “passionate”.
he finished his last sentence on a rising tone. Did Nelson always sound this westy and drippy at the same time and I have forgotten, or has he received a bit of “real aussie battla” accent coaching recently? He sounds like a trekkie from Rooty Hill.
Brendan moved the second censure motion against the Prime Minister in two days, this morning. Ended up getting himself censured. Very nicely done, in my opinion. I hope that’ll learn him to try and abuse the Government in its own house…
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make that the second in three days.
There we go: fuelwatch in WA is held by the RAC WA to be good for competiton – and doesnt raise prices.
end of story. Who cares what some Howard-appointed leaking loser in canberra reckoned after one day’s thought?
Ram the scheme through parliament, punters will like it, and Brendan will have to find some other ridiculous crap to whine about.
Can’t quite ram it through the Senate, at the moment… not like Johnny used to.