GRRRRRRRR

I couldn't help myself when I filled my car with petrol today - I berated the little man behind the BP counter regarding the excessively high cost of petrol. I asked the few people in the forecourt if they were happy with the petrol price and surprise, surprise they had no opinion on the matter - SHEEP!! You wouldn't know it but the Kiwi dollar is at a 23 year high trading at 74 cents against the US, so why is it that our petrol prices are $1.52 a litre and only 1 cent a litre cheaper than this time last year?

Unfortunately, the NZ public is generally financially illiterate and consumers get ripped off blindly as a result. Now the Labour Govt may impose a 10 cent a litre petrol tax for the Auckland Region - the average JAFA of course accepts this - when are they going to wake up? Don't they realise that Aucklanders contribute more than 40% of the tax and have had little back in the way of infratructure spending.

So the leader of the Green Party announces that the new petrol tax will go into Auckland's public transport system and NOT into roading. Well, Aucklanders voted this Government in, they will get what they deserve, unfortunately the rest of us (a minority) will have to campaign extremely hard at the next election to rid the socialist lefties out!!