Qld Fuel Prices

That's the plan... Any non QLD resident will pay the full non subsidised price.

How are they going to police that.

Most servo operators dont have the time to check your number plates and see where they come from, then have to do the sums to apply the extra 8.3C per litre.

Their consoles wont be set up for that and the cost to do so would be astronomical per servo.

Cheers,

Cruiser

What is most interesting about all of this is that the reason for this situation in the first place goes back a few years when all the states charged their own fuel excise but Qld did not have an excise unlike the other states. There was a successful court case in NSW that challenged the state’s ability to collect a tobacco excise and it was found that only the Commonwealth could collect excises. So it began with a universal rate to be applied across all states by the commonwealth for the benefit of the states and with Qld not having an excise to start with it resulted in a status quo when this new excise was refunded to the Qld motorist. And off course locally we never really got back the full value anyway because of all the parties in the food chain syphoned off their share.

Seems like a reasonable solution but I remain concerned that there is another piece of privacy lost to big brother. For those that don’t follow the news closely there has also been a suggestion of fuel rationing as a response to dwindling oil supplies. That bar code now has a whole new meaning. How about this for an example, “Mr Beatit you have swiped your licence and are not eligible for further fuel under our fuel ration scheme. Please come back next week when you are once again eligible – have a pleasant day and is there anything else we can do for you?”

Not sure I like the idea either but sure would like that 8.35c/l though.

Kind regards

Sounds like it will be linked to the new Qld Licence Smartcard apparently being introduced around 2009.

Andrew

As I see it nder new system the price displayed in Queensland will increase by 8cents and Queenslanders will get a discount of 8c once their drivers licence is swiped.

This would mean the servos south of the border will probably be rubbing their hands as they can increase their price to match the displayed price in Queensland.

Pedro