Bad News for Motorists

McFarlane, unfortunately has absolutely no idea but strangely enough he is the government spokeperson. Yet, he has done absolutely nothing with the price parity of petrol - the massive hikes at the petrol stations - mind you, "not a word to the petrol companies" but yes! hit the tax payer, the individual who drives to work and or is involved in some activity. Cut Mcfarlanes benefits totally and let him survive as most tax payers do with no sympathy or care. That is the issue. I wonder if the public will stand for this tax grab. Whose fault is it when the reserves have fallen to just 52 days of export? not the public's but this incompetent member of parliament. I am disgusted with this minister. 

What a Government - More TAX - Pensioners HIT again - Who do we BLAME 

It seems that successive Federal and State Governments in Australia only know 1 trick, that is taxing the tax payers to the hill, anytime, due to their incompetance in managing the national finance, firstly, blame the previous government and then the opposition, then increases the taxes, when they ran out of excuses, then, introduce a new levy (they would say levy is not tax!!!) I don't know what they are if it's not another form of tax. Our politician do not have any innovative policies to encourage people to work harder, to assist our industries and companies to be more efficient due to massive government red tapes. We have been spending billions after billions of our public money in participating unnecessary wars and conflicts. Just look at hoe well our neighbour New Zealand is doing, it's government will be having a surplus!!! Our Aussie Battlers (AUD) is approaching parity with The Kiwis!!!! 

Just another example of political short-sightedness. How could Australia safe guard our national security, allowing the closeure of our refineries and solely rely upon the oil shipment from Singapore? Australia is a big continent far away in the South Pacific, we have plenty of crude oil and LNG, all successive Federal Governments from both sides of politics, have absolutely no foresight to allow the current situation of our oil totally dependent supply from Singapore. The Federal Government and politicians from all sides should take immediate action to remedy the current situation, if necessary, nationalize the oil refinery and oil industry, ensure oil refinery remains in Australian hands, in order to maintain and control our national interest. One could imagine if we have no oil supply arriving from Singapore, what are rhe consequences Australia will face up to???? If required, make it mandatory that oil producer and oil company must have refining capacity in Australia. I am sure, no way United States will allow this sort of nonsense and stupidity happening to our lifeline (the oil supply). 

Give us a break. They can take the 2 cents out of all the money they are ripping out of petrol at this point. I do not have a car, however I would like someone who has the figures on petrol costs and profits to give an approximate breakup on profit per litre, or per $100 retail. This would give us some idea as to how much, refineries ,transporters retailers and others,THE ONES THAT ACTUALLY DO THE WORK. required for us to be able to put petrol in our cars get, and how much our government takes. That may not only be a surprise but could make anyone who runs or knows some thing about business, quite angry. By the way which of the money grabbers can we blame for allowing this situation to develop? 

Rubbish, What crisis can you solve in 90 days but cannot solve in 52 day?. The oil companies must manage their stock as an ongoing part of running their business like any other company. As if the oil companies are battling. They reap the profit of shutting down the refineries but want to pass the additional cost of oil stock to the public. This additional cost should be offset against the benefit of shutting down the refineries. This is another instance of government looking out for the big end of town at the expense of consumers Makes me ponder about the concept of nationalisation of key industries because big business cannot stop themselves from greed.