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David Maddison (maddison@connexus.apana.org.au) wrote:
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: On Wed, 14 Feb 1996, gravityboy 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.)
: > :
: > : Aren't people aware of this fact, or what?
: >
: > Yes I am aware of this, and the money goes  to pay for roads etc.
: > Its about time people realise the government represents the people and if
: > its not representing you well thats your fault.
: >
: >
: >
: > peace and love
: >
: > chris

: Virtually none of that tax goes to roads. Most of it goes to consolidated
: revenue. If it did go to roads we wouldn't have so many dangerous ones
: and the road death toll would be lower.

You got that right. And wasn't the initial concept of 'Registration' 
going to pay for roads. Come to think of it, what does registration
do any more? Another tax...

: And _please_ don't tell me that Australia has relatively low petrol
: prices compared with "other countries". Mostly these comparisons are made
: with Europe which has about 30 times or more the population density we have,
: where people live in tiny high density apartment complexes and a 1 hour
: drive can take you across several countries. It is more appropriate to
: compare our petrol prices with the US or Canada, which are similar sized
: countries to Australia, and have petrol prices of about half or less. And
: they still have a higher population density than we have.

And they are probably not self-sufficient in producing petroleum
grade crude oil as we are. They have to buy it from nasty OPEC
(at a slightly smaller price than we buy it from ourselves).

: David Maddison

Mark.