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Article #341Re: Excess petrol prices petition
From: Peter Kerwin
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 00:00
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maddison@connexus.apana.org.au (David S. Maddison) wrote: > Regardless of this, by far the biggest predator on the consumer with > regards to petrol prices is our beloved Government! > Why doesn't anyone care that petrol prices at the pump are about 50% > tax? (I don't have the _exact_ figures with me on hand. The data is > available from the Australian Institute of Petroleum.) They have to be high to pay for all the non-transport, certainly not aviation, related programs that this Government has invented. You're paying for a pair of orthopaedic shoes for the proverbial black lesbian single parent whale. I don't know how road and aviation safety is funded, but I suspect it isn't between major accidents. Pete (fok@dove.mtx.net.au) Adelaide, South Australia
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10e4c9,ffeb5961d875e901 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e4c9,public X-Google-Thread: f8259,ffeb5961d875e901 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8259,public X-Google-Thread: f9008,ffeb5961d875e901 X-Google-Attributes: gidf9008,public X-Google-Thread: 108659,ffeb5961d875e901 X-Google-Attributes: gid108659,public X-Google-Thread: 103407,ffeb5961d875e901 X-Google-Attributes: gid103407,public X-Google-Thread: 1153d9,ffeb5961d875e901 X-Google-Attributes: gid1153d9,public X-Google-Thread: 108c83,ffeb5961d875e901 X-Google-Attributes: gid108c83,public X-Google-Thread: 101ee4,ffeb5961d875e901 X-Google-Attributes: gid101ee4,public From: fok@dove.mtx.net.au (Peter Kerwin) Subject: Re: Excess petrol prices petition Date: 1996/02/13 Message-ID: <4fqpkg$ff5@curlew.mtx.net.au> X-Deja-AN: 139289218 references: <4fmjus$1ss@canb.cin.gov.au> <4fpm7p$ema@preeda.internex.net.au> organization: Microtronics Information Systems reply-to: fok@dove.mtx.net.au newsgroups: aus.archives,aus.aviation,aus.cars,aus.books,aus.computers,aus.culture.china,aus.education,aus.electronics,aus.enviroment.misc,aus.foodtech,aus.games.bridge,aus.gardens,aus.general,aus.invest,aus.legal,aus.motorcycles,aus.personals,aus.radio.broadcast,aus.rail,aus.sport,aus.sport.motor,aus.students,aus.tv