Petrol pricing is a joke.
Fri 7 Sep 2007Filed Under: Automotive, Cars, Current Affairs, Motorcycles | Comments Off
See what I mean! Experts that don’t see the obvious. Even the ‘Peak automotive body’ appears to support high prices. Shame on you. Sack your stupid expert advisers and employ house wives and husbands etc…
There aren’t any complex issues to consider no matter how experts try to justify their employment.
If taxes supposedly increase the price of petrol how come in QLD that does not have the state fuel tax is just as expensive as the other states. All these experts sound pretty un-expert to me. We don’t need to be told we’re not being ripped of regardless of tax or not.
The inquiry to me sounds like a waste of time. Especially when they are saying ‘oh because petrol on Tuesday is cheaper everthing’s fair’. What a absolute joke.
We are not stupid!
Oh my gosh!
Thu 6 Sep 2007Filed Under: Politics | Comments Off
A lot of news happened today but the highlight was a the APEC summit held in Sydney Australia!
The best moment was when Kevin Rudd – leader of the opposition spoke in fluent mandarin welcoming the leaders of China. S*** Even funnier was his quip about Pandas to offset the current PM Howard’s Panda jibe. Even better was the mention about the foreign minister’s badly received joke about Pandas. It’s Panda-monium! (Been wanting to say that for ages!)
The second best moment was when the Chaser team, a political satire ‘comedy’ show ‘breached’ the security in Sydney today. Funny only because the level of security is described as the best we’ve got.
Petrol pricing rip-off
Mon 3 Sep 2007Filed Under: Automotive, Cars, Current Affairs, Motorcycles, Petrol Price History | Comments Off
First let me say that every company is entitled to make a decent profit. However when they make profits because they’ve got no competition then I don’t think that’s very fair. I especially think this applies to petrol companies and their supermarket partners.
Government’s especially the current one don’t live in the real world. They don’t see the obvious like biscuit prices increasing by $1.00 over the course of a year. The biscuit company didn’t make a massive profit, instead the supermarket chain makes a huge profit. More so when they enter the fuel market they and promote their brand by shopper dockets or coupons then I start to see a trend don’t you?
Supermarkets say NO we aren’t ripping you off – see our accounts! Done by a reputable accounting firm. Sorry guys – every decent accountant knows what goes into the figures – I’m not going to reveal the secrets yet. You see official government inquiries don’t examine the making of the books just the results they don’t do the practical thing. So nothing will result unless the right thing is done and ignore the figures.
Then they get experts to justify whatever they want – pity the experts are all theory and only good in one particular area and miss the whole point.
Like the post on Telstra with their dubious reception figures – Telstra says look at our recorded measurements we cover soooo much of the country we can stop the old network. Then a group does the right thing and tries to make a phone call and guess what it doesn’t work. Then the Telstra PR kicks in saying the group that did the test was totally STUPID and they don’t know what they are talking about. The group are customers – opps! Telstra then blames the phone manufacturer still denying there’s a coverage problem.