Fuel Pricing

I reckon the leaves would be falling in the usa as well!

QUOTE: Makes an absolute joke of the Govt's $2000 rebate on LPG installation - what a rort that is.

Why does it?

Also heard on Sydney radio this morning that one economist predicts fuel to drop to a dolar a litre in the new year!

The con/rebate was a give-away that really gave us nothing.

There is plenty of evidence that the price of installations went up by roughly $1000 overnight and the desperation of motorists made the booking in time blow out to April - May 2007.

As a diesel owner..where is my rebate???

As a petrol owner with limited k's for the year...how long do you expect me to wait until I begin to get a return????

As I said...another showbag from the Howard Government.

In the paper someone said we could be paying $2/l by Xmas.
We normally pay more in summer because the Northern Hemishere use more oil for heating in there winter.

Glen.

Hi Shaker,
- LPG is a by-product of diesel production
- LPG vehicles are not fuel efficient
- CNG is what we have heaps of in the Cooper basin - and is the "forgotten" fuel that should be encouraged
- Converting a bunch more vehicles to LPG doesn't achieve anything apart from a $2000 windfall to those who were going to do it anyway.
- The LPG fitters will raise their prices, and take a share of that $2000.
- For those who do the diesel/LPG thing, its another $2000 windfall for no good reason
- LPG is 1/2 to 1/3rd the price of petrol - that alone is enough incentive

- And finally I'm annoyed because its my taxes being wasted. And secondly, the only reason they did it was to get votes.

The governments are getting a windfall from the higher fuel prices - they are getting teh extra tax revenue - I'd rather see that go into CNG development.

Cheers
Phil

as someone above said...
60 mins interviewed some one sunday and the jerk said ..be prepared for it nudging 2bucks by Xmas

is one scaremongering and/or the other is trying to keep us calm?

who cares it aint as dear as that amber fluid ...yet

You are right Phil G. This $2000 LPG rebate is another expensive scheme to buy votes. Does nothing for the long term. This $80 million would be better spent on public transport infrastructure, CNG or solar. There must be an election soon, hang on....next year!

4 corners the other night showed big business leaders coming together to work out ways to reduce Oz's greenhouse gas emissions. Seems like things may get going now. And what does Johnny say? "I don't think it's a problem, I'm not convinced yet. Why should Australia do anything about CO2 emissions when 1 or 2 other countries around the world aren't either?" (meaning the US said no).

What does it take to convince him on energy matters? Too busy watching his bum for Costello therefore looking backwards.

Off the track but interesting i think. Bush beat Al gore in the 2000 US election. Dodgy behind the scenes rip off. Gore was a campaigner for CO2 reductions, even before he ran for office. How different would the world be if he became President rather than Bush?

Barnesy

If they spent it on public transport, would you use it?

If i lived in the suburbs and worked in the CBD i would use it. Couldn't think of anything worse than driving an hour each way in peak hour. I used public transport a lot when i lived in the suburbs and was always lamenting the poor service.

More people are using public transport already due to petrol prices. Even more would do so if services were improved. Is there another way to reduce oil use? I can't use public transport now because there isn't any in my town.

Cannot be right, Mr Howard says the fuel companies are utterly trustworthy and critics are mistaken.

i'm with you ev700....that dictator wouldnt lie to us

How ya doing Redeye??
Hope Yourself , Gab and the kids are well.

On another forum i use a couple of the guys said they had heard it would/could get down to around a $1 a litre buy then end of October.

That is until some useless towel head goes and blows himself and a heap of others up again. Or our war monger PM goes and invades Iran with George Dubbya

Bigcol, Where did they hear it would get down to $1/litre? You would have to question the validity of any prediction where the price drops 25% in 2 months.

I also don't actually think that suicide bombers are the ones infuencing oil prices. It's demand from China. US, Oz and Pommie governments use terrorists as an excuse for high prices to deflect media and confirm the validity of their stupid Iraq war. But I agree Bush is a warmonger and Johnny loves his free trade agreement too much to care.

Barnesy