I saw the editorial in the Herald Sun the other day........ it suggested that the federal govt should cut the petrol excise..... BRILLIANT!!! THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T READ THE HERALD SUN COS YOU GET FUCKING STUPID!!!
Scary thing was... they were actually serious! To cut a measley 10c off the per litre price of petrol at the pump would cost a staggering 3billion dollars and cut the budget surplus by a third!
The other, arguably worse, effect would be to relax the price incentive to move away from petrol. Petrol is cheap...... and it always has been, the fact that it's going up is a signal from the market that it's going to be harder to find from now on. The idea should be that we start looking for alternatives but according to the Hun it just means that the govt should subsidise our addiction to middle east oil!
Thankfully, both the federal govt and the opposition understand this and wont be following the Hun's advice.
That message again........... The Hun is terrible. It's use should be confined to covering the bottom of birds cages and wrapping up broken glass....