Petrol Price crisis......

[hackney]

Originally Posted by five 7

We're does it start, incompetent pollies sucking the life out of the motorist with high exise tax, the green dream, no way to process oil now so reliance on off shore supply, also at end of supply chain. And with Auckland a local exise tax added on, Then 15% gst which is also a a tax on tax with the exise portion. Maybe I have it wrong, but the motorist is always a easy target. Also our previous dictator put a ban on any oil or gas exploration.

Every country in the world(western) pays excise on fuel, without that money coming in, roads don’t get built etc..It is for infrastructure & roads.Stop ya whining!

[Adamz Ghia]

Originally Posted by hackney

Every country in the world(western) pays excise on fuel, without that money coming in, roads don’t get built etc..It is for infrastructure & roads.Stop ya whining!

So where’s all Victoria’s fuel taxes going? Because I drove to Daylesford recently and there’s not much of a road left to get there.

[hackney]

Originally Posted by Adamz Ghia

So where’s all Victoria’s fuel taxes going? Because I drove to Daylesford recently and there’s not much of a road left to get there.

As I alluded to, fuel excise taxes goes into funding infrastructure & roads(fact) where do you think the funding for the Pacific Highway up to QLD comes from? The Barton highway between the A.C.T.border & Murrumbateman is currently being duplicated.This particular road has been an ongoing issue for nearly forty years.

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by Adamz Ghia

So where’s all Victoria’s fuel taxes going? Because I drove to Daylesford recently and there’s not much of a road left to get there.

Funny that, I was in Daylesford on both Saturday and Sunday and I thought much of the same.

[five 7]

Originally Posted by hackney

Every country in the world(western) pays excise on fuel, without that money coming in, roads don’t get built etc..It is for infrastructure & roads.Stop ya whining!

Have you seen our roads. Brand new ones fall apart before they are open, built on the cheap and we are in a close run for potholes with Papua New Guinea. Not alot filters down to roading infrastructure, our govt also has a obsession with cycle ways, it is eyewatering the cost per km for those. Allgood I'll stop whining now.

[hackney]

Originally Posted by five 7

Have you seen our roads. Brand new ones fall apart before they are open, built on the cheap and we are in a close run for potholes with Papua New Guinea. Not alot filters down to roading infrastructure, our govt also has a obsession with cycle ways, it is eyewatering the cost per km for those. Allgood I'll stop whining now.

You have to remember there has been an enormous amount of rain in the country in the past two years, councils have had enormous amount of road repairs to do,(& they have literally been chasing their tales on road repairs)it does not happen o’vernight, & there is only so much money that can go around, everything has to be prioritised.Nearly all governments(state) are doing cycle ways.I have no issue with that one.(I don’t cycle btw.)

[five 7]

Originally Posted by hackney

You have to remember there has been an enormous amount of rain in the country in the past two years, councils have had enormous amount of road repairs to do,(& they have literally been chasing their tales on road repairs)it does not happen o’vernight, & there is only so much money that can go around, everything has to be prioritised.Nearly all governments(state) are doing cycle ways.I have no issue with that one.(I don’t cycle btw.)

You reliaze I live in NZ.we spend half the year submerged always have.

[hackney]

Originally Posted by five 7

You reliaze I live in NZ.we spend half the year submerged always have.

How ‘unlucky’ for you!

[five 7]

Originally Posted by hackney

How ‘unlucky’ for you!

Luck is in the eye of the beholder....

[kypez]

Originally Posted by hackney

Every country in the world(western) pays excise on fuel, without that money coming in, roads don’t get built etc..It is for infrastructure & roads.Stop ya whining!

Then why do I pay my rego every year? That's supposed to be for roads and infrastructure which is why it's weight based.