The Whining and Bitching Thread
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the thing americans benefit from the most has to be petrol/gas prices. not sure about australia, but much like cigarettes it's taxed to shit in europe, i think ours is like 2.5x more than in the US and in some european countries it's even more.
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Smokes are taxed to the point of something like 56 cents of every dollar cigarette is tax and it goes up twice a year.
Petrol is the same but different. It cops two different taxes and both are indexed so they go up with the wholesale price.
Gas is a different kettle of horse shit, we export that to Singapore and then buy it back at a dearer price.
I can't be fucked doing the imperial conversation but standard fuel here is about $1.50 per litre and diesel and premium (higher octane) fuels are a about 10 cents per litre dearer. It does drop in some states to around $1.30 but I haven't seen diesel prices around here drop from $1.50 for about 5 years.
Petrol is the same but different. It cops two different taxes and both are indexed so they go up with the wholesale price.
Gas is a different kettle of horse shit, we export that to Singapore and then buy it back at a dearer price.
I can't be fucked doing the imperial conversation but standard fuel here is about $1.50 per litre and diesel and premium (higher octane) fuels are a about 10 cents per litre dearer. It does drop in some states to around $1.30 but I haven't seen diesel prices around here drop from $1.50 for about 5 years.
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Your from Melb aren't you bro? It's below $1.30 at a fair few places around town at the moment.
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Nope I'm a country boy with hay between me teeth tooth and cowshit on me boots!
For the last 3 years we've had the ACCC looking into collusion in the fuel industry and they have been focusing on areas from Melb to Bairnsdale and the price of diesel hasn't changed in the entire time since the ACCC started their investigation. Can't be collusion if all the service stations charge the same price!
For the last 3 years we've had the ACCC looking into collusion in the fuel industry and they have been focusing on areas from Melb to Bairnsdale and the price of diesel hasn't changed in the entire time since the ACCC started their investigation. Can't be collusion if all the service stations charge the same price!
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Stupid thing is for more than a decade we have been told that fuel prices in the valley are high because of transportation, yet Bairnsdale another two hours further usually has prices very similar to Melbourne.
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Tax is big on fuel but collusion is bigger and the ACCC are fucking gutless and a waste of time.
Oh yeah I want an electric car that gets stuck on speed humps, travels at a speed just faster than walking pace and wont even get me to Melbourne without stopping at least once to recharge. Toy cars belong in the sand pit!
Oh yeah I want an electric car that gets stuck on speed humps, travels at a speed just faster than walking pace and wont even get me to Melbourne without stopping at least once to recharge. Toy cars belong in the sand pit!
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Haha, well if the major car manufacturers would invest a little more into them you'd think they'd be a bit better than that. Petroleum companies hold back the development of electric cars, kinda how pharmaceutical companies hold back the development of stem cell therapy imo.
Reminds me of the stonecutters song from the Simpsons.
Reminds me of the stonecutters song from the Simpsons.
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Even if car manufacturers could pull a magical finger out of their arse and produce a battery/power system that was better than we currently have the idea that everyone in a country as big as Australia could drive electric toys is laughable. We don't all drive on the paved roads, we don't all drive past service centres with power points multiple times a day and with the way power prices are increasing in this country how cheap are electric cars really going to be when the car costs more to buy than petrol cars and the batteries which make up the majority of the cost need to be replaced every 5 years.
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Companies who are shit at catering for the disabled maybe shouldn't abandon their old Twitter and Instagram handles. This is from an online friend of mine who's very vocal about this stuff. Good on him:
https://twitter.com/LBComicCon/status/1088238870112555010
https://twitter.com/LBComicCon/status/1088238870112555010
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I spent a week in Bali and all I got was this lousy ear infection.
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Watch out, guys. Mods who don't even post in GMD are messaging people about how certain posts they've made recently are 'abusive'
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