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That's basically what I'm talking about.
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I Agree
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I'm convinced that this will work ,who do we boycot first,
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It depends, which small business owner do you wish to bankrupt first ?
You don't like fuel prices so you want bankrupt a few hundred Aussie owned businesses, try researching the topic instead of getting a bee in your bonnets over random fuel boycott chain emails. |
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I received my Motorcharge statement from June. I compared it to May's statement. The only difference being my Super Pursuit sat in the garage for the month of June, as I really didn't need to use it for work. I drove my Mitsi Express Van instead for odd site inspections and planned my travels a little more thoroughly. There was around a $600 lower fuel bill between June and May.
Bottom line is fuel prices aren't hurting my business I just don't drive the ute as much. Plus, as others have mentioned, I have a greater appreciation of the SP when I drive it. As some else said in a previous post, crude oil prices are being driven up by investors bailing out of property investments and are pooring their money in oil and energy companies. I know, I do it with my SMSF, and am reaping the benefits of higher oil prices. I tell you what though, if Iraq and Iran are left alone oil will dramatically fall in value. It's the war mongers keeping crude oil prices high.
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spam ^^^^
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60% of oil produced comes from state owned entities i.e. oil companies account for 40% of oil production.
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You dont need to jump off a 600ft cliff to realize it will kill you, unless of course the laws are gravity are different in *your* country.
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Here we go again...
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Cuban... nothing like it
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how much?
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If pressed, I will find the release to prove my point. Anyway, oil companies make what they make. They just pass the wholesale cost on to the consumer. Their 'margins' will always guarantee a profit under just about any circumstance. What I don't understand is that governments all over the world are making more revenue... in other words, our federal govt is making almost twice the money that they did 18 months ago just from fuel excise alone... yet they see fit to introduce additional (carbon) taxes. Go figure!
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I pull into the servo I pull into, I favour BP as it receives most favourable reviews for my car and I get 5% off fuel. If you decided that BP was going to be the target for your boycott I'm now required to use a lesser fuel and pay an extra 9c/litre in the process. Pass. Get 1000 people over the country to follow this silly scheme, do you think a chain like BP will even notice a difference? Doubt it. |
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Bugger Oil and bugger OPEC, its time we moved on to something else that's viable, and having said that......drumroll....... Gentleman I present the future of Motoring.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Nucleon I wonder if RDP and the other tuners could edit one of these babies :hihi: |
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Adapt or perish...
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So $1.60/minute ;)
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Petrol over here at the moment is $2.25 for 95 and about $2.31 for 98.
Makes you think twice before you get in and drive.
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Wait until they try for Iran!!! cheers |
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Well more attractive then daily Chernobols happening on the Ring-road???
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100% Look at it this way, 5 years ago oil was around $30-$40 a barrell pump was around $0.80, today it's over $130 for the same barrell and fuel is around $1.65, more than a 4 fold increase in crude prices yet the price at the pump has only gone up by a factor of 2, please explain. Governments and oil companies all pad prices in order to safe guard themselves in bad times, this is more like the biggest jumping castle in the world not just padding, they're all in their jumping around like little kids having the time of there lives. Quote:
If people are so happy with the current situation then why are threads like this even in existence let alone as popular as what they are. It's the same as an election that brings a new party into government, enough people went out and made a difference, this is no different.
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Tassie update.
Ultimate just hit 1.89, diesel 1.96.
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Another point is that the news articles quoting 'speculators' when announcing pending oil price increases... the articles never seem to quote the actual source but instead uses some 'speculator' from an investment company, who happens to talk jibberish... but wait, there is no issue with supply as the oil reserves are higher than when fuel was around 80c/L. It all seems like smoke and mirrors to me. Time and time again we've heard excuses ranging from supply/demand, hurricanes, China/India consuming too much, outdated technology, fewer discoveries, impending wars etc... but wait, this sort of stuff has been going on for decades. More likely (IMO) the IMF has set the price artificially (or some other power?). Those in the loop engage the Cone of Silence so we'll probably never find out the true story.
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One more example I forgot about, most of us would not really remember this but saw it on SBS or ABC a couple of weeks ago (just remembered about it again). Anyway most of us are too young to remember the "OIL CRISIS OF THE EARLY 70's" where speculation was rife about "WORLD OIL SHORTAGES" , sounding familiar, anyway fuel prices hit record highs and suddenly there was not enough fuel to go around so they did the old odd and even day thing. Well what basically happened is that this is when many people gave up there hungry V8's and started getting into compact cars, this is when the Japanese cars really came into play on a world wide scale due to there economical engines. But, as a consequence of this happening suddenly they found all this extra oil reserve, funny that, and we have been riding that wave now for over 30 years when at the time I think they speculated less than that in reserve. Moral is that people can and did make a difference, the oil/fuel companies saw massive drops in profit by people converting to smaller capacity engines that used less than half the fuel of the big V8's. They quickly about faced there argument for higher fuel prices and came up (out of nowhere, it was a miracle) with all this extra oil reserve and prices suddenly dropped. By then it was too late and many were enjoying the savings benefits of the smaller cars so prices have been kept as low as possible in order to increase volume by sales to larger cars. I think the problem now is that we are so close to an alternative source of fuel for cars that they see a mass exodus once it arrives that they are making as high a profit as possible before they are no longer in the game. The other thing as mentioned last night on the news and a few months back when the ACCC investigated fuel docket scams was that companies like Coles might actually be increasing prices artifically in order to recoup lost profits through fuel dockets. To a degree it is true that these servos (Coles/Safeway/Woolies operated) tend to up the price before anyone else then suddenly drop it with dockets. It's as if they raise the price so others follow then drop it just in time for the peak hour drive home, the others can't match them quick enough so they (C/S/W) make an absolute killing. The ACCC and the Fuel Commisioner are a joke and do nothing just as last nights response from the FC justifying the "Pump Out Of Order" scam proves, we're screwed but I guess we get the choice of who does it to us. ![]()
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Also as has been mentioned in the last couple days oil needs to stop being indexed in $US, as the $US is in rapid decline this reflects on the price of oil, the rest of the world is bolstering the US economy.
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Aren't our fuel prices set by Singapore? Who's to say those prices are determined by a even higher body (IMF?)... call me cynical but I don't accept the convoluted tripe we seem to continually read.
My basic belief is this, if an explanation isn't simple, then it's not all it seems to be.
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i think the CIA is keeping fuel prices high so the aliens at area 51 cant afford to fill their spaceships and fly home
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