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| Thread ID: 145408 | 2017-10-26 01:17:00 | Auckland to get 10c a litre fuel tax | Zippity (58) | PC World Chat |
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| 1441160 | 2017-10-28 03:21:00 | I predict boom times for prefect :lol: | KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1441161 | 2017-10-28 19:53:00 | I can see if this tax works out for Auckland all the other council is NZ will want to do it as well. | paulw (1826) | ||
| 1441162 | 2017-10-28 20:21:00 | *2 In ChCh. we are "full page" advertising some MUECK bloke's work at the Art Gallery, for whom! a few rich ******. Then there's St Asaph Street. Wheeewww. |
Lurking (218) | ||
| 1441163 | 2017-10-29 06:44:00 | Meanwhile, across the ditch: I've just got back from Queensland and $1:14 was readily available, but, the thieves closest to the Airport charged $1:42.9 Anyone else reckon 8375 we're being screwed? You do have to take into account the 12% exchange Rate differential. Australia is the only country of the many I have lived in were the price varies by the day of the week. We are all sick and tired of being ripped off by the Oil Companies and their resellers. Last Thursday it was $A114.5, and on Friday it jumped to $A142.9, as the fuel price cycle jumped back to the top of the range, and over the next 2 weeks it will gradually come back down to about $1.15 - Bloody crazy. The biggest scam we have had to suffer in Oz is the two big Monopolist Supermarket chains get a stranglehold on Servo Outlets, Woolworths with Caltex, and Coles with Shell, and their lousy 4c a litre supermarket discount coupons. It has resulted in the unholy duopoly controlling the retail motorfuel market, and jas put most of the independents out of buisness - less competition, the easier it is to gouge the consumer. The ACCC should never have allowed it to happen. NZ is costlier because of the exchange differential, and also because the NZ Government screws more fuel tax out of the motorist than the Australian Govt |
KenESmith (6287) | ||
| 1441164 | 2017-10-30 03:26:00 | You do have to take into account the 12% exchange Rate differential. Australia is the only country of the many I have lived in were the price varies by the day of the week. We are all sick and tired of being ripped off by the Oil Companies and their resellers. Last Thursday it was $A114.5, and on Friday it jumped to $A142.9, as the fuel price cycle jumped back to the top of the range, and over the next 2 weeks it will gradually come back down to about $1.15 - Bloody crazy. The biggest scam we have had to suffer in Oz is the two big Monopolist Supermarket chains get a stranglehold on Servo Outlets, Woolworths with Caltex, and Coles with Shell, and their lousy 4c a litre supermarket discount coupons. It has resulted in the unholy duopoly controlling the retail motorfuel market, and jas put most of the independents out of buisness - less competition, the easier it is to gouge the consumer. The ACCC should never have allowed it to happen. NZ is costlier because of the exchange differential, and also because the NZ Government screws more fuel tax out of the motorist than the Australian Govt It was much the same last time I was there when the exchange rate was only about 5% difference. |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 1441165 | 2017-10-30 07:49:00 | You do have to take into account the 12% exchange Rate differential. Australia is the only country of the many I have lived in were the price varies by the day of the week. We are all sick and tired of being ripped off by the Oil Companies and their resellers. Last Thursday it was $A114.5, and on Friday it jumped to $A142.9, as the fuel price cycle jumped back to the top of the range, and over the next 2 weeks it will gradually come back down to about $1.15 - Bloody crazy. The biggest scam we have had to suffer in Oz is the two big Monopolist Supermarket chains get a stranglehold on Servo Outlets, Woolworths with Caltex, and Coles with Shell, and their lousy 4c a litre supermarket discount coupons. It has resulted in the unholy duopoly controlling the retail motorfuel market, and jas put most of the independents out of buisness - less competition, the easier it is to gouge the consumer. The ACCC should never have allowed it to happen. NZ is costlier because of the exchange differential, and also because the NZ Government screws more fuel tax out of the motorist than the Australian Govt Yes, I realise where you’re coming, from but I don’t think the exchange rate is a valid argument, simply because if you live in Australia, you are paid in Australian Dollars. Add to that that the Australian Minimum Wage is $2 an hour greater than ours, then your petrol is significantly cheaper. Oh, your groceries are about half price too. My wife brought home dockets to show her friends she was so impressed. :) (ps That Fire on the River show you had at the beginning of the month was brilliant.) :thumbs: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1441166 | 2017-10-30 10:28:00 | Yes, I realise where you’re coming, from but I don’t think the exchange rate is a valid argument, simply because if you live in Australia, you are paid in Australian Dollars. Add to that that the Australian Minimum Wage is $2 an hour greater than ours, then your petrol is significantly cheaper. Oh, your groceries are about half price too. My wife brought home dockets to show her friends she was so impressed. :) (ps That Fire on the River show you had at the beginning of the month was brilliant.) :thumbs: Must disagree with you BM on the exchange rate not affecting petrol prices - it most certainly does, as both NZ and Australia buy petroleum products on the same International market. It is just that exchange fluctuations are taken as an opportunity by the Oil Companies to jack up the price by more than the percentage rate variation, and when the rate moves to the advantage of the consumer, the price doesn't fall nearly as promptly or as much as it does when it goes the other way. I must admit the last time I came home to Auckland for a visit, I was appalled by Food prices, NZ lamb on special in Foodtown was $3 a kg dearer than the standard supermarket price in Brisbane - and the bulk of lamb sold here comes from Tassie, which is 1600km from Brisbane. We pay $3.00 for a 3 litre container of Full cream milk, and NZ is the most efficient cost effective dairy farmers in the world. now work that one out. Aussie supermarkets are in business to make loads of money for the shareholders, and they do it very well, so it looks like the Kiwi Consumer is being royally ripped off. Brisbane is not a bad city to live in, bit bloody hot in summer but winters are virtually non existent, we use expensive electricity almost year round to cool our homes, central heating is virtually unknown, and certainly not needed in Queensland. Brisbane is a very livable City, about 1.6 million people, they complain about gridlock in the rush hour, they don't really know what gridlock is compared to Auckland's Southern Motorway. Rush hour driving time from Brisbane CBD to Calamvale 22 km via M1, is round 40 minutes max as a rule - public transport is faster. You enjoyed River Fire, a great spectacle ,it is an annual event. There are downsides to Oz, not in our current home, but in our previous one, Eastern Brown snakes were regular uninvited guests in our garden, they rate No2 worldwide in toxicity, a definite hazard for pets and young children - it is illegal to kill them, but I have accidently dispatched quite a few while using a spade. Actually the number of aussies killed each year by snakes can be counted on the fingers of one hand . Can't say the same for the numbers of shark attack victims, don't swim round sunup and sunset especially in overcast weather. Then of course there are venomous spiders, see quite a few redbacks, but they aren't a big problem. Being laid out by a coward punch to the head by some drunk bogan while out round the late night drinking spots is a far greater risk. House values are up in Brisbane, nowhere near as bad as Sydney, and really none can hold a torch to Auckland's unrealistic house prices, when interest rates finally get to move upwards, quite a few homeowners are going to catch a life changing cold. For a Kiwi to retire to SE Queensland is a pretty good option, Superannuation/pension is reciprocal, but means tested in Oz, if you have got stacks of cash and assets one cannot suckle the Centrelink tit, which is fair enough I guess. Own your own home in Brisbane and one can live a reasonably good life on the pension here. Only problem is the place is full of Aussies, and the All Blacks are not a home team. . |
KenESmith (6287) | ||
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