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So how long until that 25c a litre is eaten up by increases at the pump?
Effectively all they've done is roll back the calendar by a week or two, but ultimately it's not like that could really do anything really meaningful - someone's got to pay for the roads! Fun fact, fuel is currently 4c a litre in Venezuela.
The half-price public transport is a nice touch though. Not of much use to the gold card-toting oldies, but at least it provides an incentive to go public.
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(14-03-2022, 03:58 PM)yousnoozeyoulose Wrote: So how long until that 25c a litre is eaten up by increases at the pump?
Effectively all they've done is roll back the calendar by a week or two, but ultimately it's not like that could really do anything really meaningful - someone's got to pay for the roads! Fun fact, fuel is currently 4c a litre in Venezuela.
The half-price public transport is a nice touch though. Not of much use to the gold card-toting oldies, but at least it provides an incentive to go public. $2 a gallon in Pakistan ,so who is the third world country now ?
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This gold card toting oldie is delighted by the fare thing. I want public transport to be totally fare free. For everyone.
Because of Climate Change.
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15-03-2022, 01:28 PM
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(14-03-2022, 08:06 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: This gold card toting oldie is delighted by the fare thing. I want public transport to be totally fare free. For everyone.
Because of Climate Change.
Chloe Swarbrick pointed it out via Twitter that, based on the Govt's estimates, a full year of free public transport would cost less than three months of cut-rate fuel taxes.
She single-handedly is driving my decision to consider voting Greens for the first time ever.
(14-03-2022, 03:58 PM)yousnoozeyoulose Wrote: So how long until that 25c a litre is eaten up by increases at the pump?
Effectively all they've done is roll back the calendar by a week or two, but ultimately it's not like that could really do anything really meaningful - someone's got to pay for the roads! Fun fact, fuel is currently 4c a litre in Venezuela.
The half-price public transport is a nice touch though. Not of much use to the gold card-toting oldies, but at least it provides an incentive to go public.
Why can't we just buy our petrol from Venezuela?
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15-03-2022, 01:57 PM
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(14-03-2022, 08:06 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: This gold card toting oldie is delighted by the fare thing. I want public transport to be totally fare free. For everyone.
Because of Climate Change. Yep, me too. I do resent though, that I feel the urge to mentally thank Winston every time I use it. 
On the subject of climate change, I came across this.
An Australian court has overturned a successful case brought by two children & a nun last year which sought to prevent expansion of a coal mine in NSW.
Those neighbours of ours across the ditch are a pain in the proverbial sometimes.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/03/15/austr...ge-ruling/
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15-03-2022, 02:13 PM
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Pisses me off, I filled the car up yesterday, wish I had waited for today (sigh)
Despite the high cost of living it remains popular
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(15-03-2022, 02:19 PM)Oldfellah Wrote: Pisses me off, I filled the car up yesterday, wish I had waited for today (sigh) You're probably not alone in that, if its any comfort. There'll likely be a few people cursing about it.
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(15-03-2022, 02:31 PM)king1 Wrote: yep, we did three cars Bugger. Well, at least you won't run out any time soon.
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For those of us that were chatting about EVs in this thread that content has now been shifted over to the Motoring/EV category, at my request. It seemed like the more fitting location was why 
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(25-03-2022, 05:32 PM)harm_less Wrote: For those of us that were chatting about EVs in this thread that content has now been shifted over to the Motoring/EV category, at my request. It seemed like the more fitting location was why Got it, thanks mate.
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