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Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:15 pm 
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Stop the presses fuel hits $1.40 in Sydney. Well F**k me!! I wish we could get fuel for $1.40. Even gas out here is 75c or thereabouts!!!
I am gunna start an argument here but shouldn't people in the city ie. those who have access to public transport, pay more for fuel. This would encourage them to use public transport. Out in the scrub we don't have busses/trams/trains that can take us to work so we have no choice but to drive.
Waddaya think? Am I nuts or just insane?

 

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Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:26 pm 
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that is da most sensible thing i ever heard... us people in the country get slugged sooo bad for fuel prices and yet it is our only means of transport. Even if it is to get to the big cities

 

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Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:32 pm 
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apparantly if everyone in the country were to not to buy a drop of fuel for 1 day, oil companies would lose something like $4.65 billion.

Im sure if the whole country went on strike and didnt buy fuel, they would soon drop prices

 

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Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:42 pm 
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they would just keep the prices up higher knowing we would have to buy it one day ;)

 

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Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:46 pm 
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how about you move to the city :)

 

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Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:47 pm 
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Would look funny tryin todrive a tractor down the main drag. Besides if we all move to the city wot r u gunna eat????

 

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Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:51 pm 
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mrnasty wrote:
apparantly if everyone in the country were to not to buy a drop of fuel for 1 day, oil companies would lose something like $4.65 billion.

Im sure if the whole country went on strike and didnt buy fuel, they would soon drop prices


untill the next day when every one realises they need petrol and the oil companies would get the money anyway.
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Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:55 pm 
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Stop the presses fuel hits $1.40 in Sydney. Well F**k me!! I wish we could get fuel for $1.40. Even gas out here is 75c or thereabouts!!!
I am gunna start an argument here but shouldn't people in the city ie. those who have access to public transport, pay more for fuel. This would encourage them to use public transport. Out in the scrub we don't have busses/trams/trains that can take us to work so we have no choice but to drive.
Waddaya think? Am I nuts or just insane?
By the looks of your ute i'd say your insane..It costs money to get the petrol to people in the bush and someone has to pay for that and guess who that is...or did you think the petrol fairies dropped it to the servos at night

 

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Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:57 pm 
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It don't cost 15 to 20 cents a litre to transport. But wot I was gettingat is that people in the city that dont use public transport should subsidise delivery outside the city by paying higher prices because they choose to choke up the roads in the city by driving their cars

 

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Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:59 pm 
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Understand what your saying BUT the thing is people in the cities dont give a s**t about people in the country...

 

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Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 10:02 pm 
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Thats been obvious for years.
Remember the knobshiner in Canberra a few years ago that wnted to sue the farmers because they had a dust storm in the city. We shouldve charged him for the topsoil. Some people have no NFI

 

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Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 10:07 pm 
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Thats been obvious for years.
Remember the knobshiner in Canberra a few years ago that wnted to sue the farmers because they had a dust storm in the city. We shouldve charged him for the topsoil. Some people have no NFI
I grew up in a small country town in N.S.W didnt even know what Maccas was till i was 15, bet half the kids in the city wouldnt even know where milk comes from...

 

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Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 10:18 pm 
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if they did know they wouldnt drink it

 

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Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 10:19 pm 
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Would look funny tryin todrive a tractor down the main drag. Besides if we all move to the city wot r u gunna eat????


Maccas, no real food in that anyway. :)

 

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Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 10:26 pm 
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This arguement is so true, in the cities, we have heaps of ways to travel around, and in the country, you would be lucky to have a train come once a day (depending where you live). The fuel prices are just disgracefull, the price just reflects our s**t tax, like cigarettes for example, I know afew people that work for BATA, and they say, that about $8 of the cost of a packet of cigarettes is pure government tax. I'm not too up to date on the petrol taxing, but it wouldnt be far off. Another thing that s**t me to tears, after paying somuch tax, I STILL have potholes to avoid on the main road here (King Georges Road).

 

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