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Niel

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#621213 7-May-2012 19:53

Dingbatt: My round trip commute to work is 70km so that alone accounts for 350km. I would say it is more likely that timmay's vehicle(s) probably use more like 9-11l/100km around town like our two do.

Ha-ha, my wife and I do a 7km round trip to work. We work at the same place but different hours. Anyway, we do 15L/100km as the cars never properly get to temperature except the weekend. We go about a month on a tank each including both the kid's sports and stuff, but that is 60L and 75L tanks. Move closer to work!

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#621248 7-May-2012 20:42

Niel:
Dingbatt: My round trip commute to work is 70km so that alone accounts for 350km. I would say it is more likely that timmay's vehicle(s) probably use more like 9-11l/100km around town like our two do.

Ha-ha, my wife and I do a 7km round trip to work.? We work at the same place but different hours.? Anyway, we do 15L/100km as the cars never properly get to temperature except the weekend.? We go about a month on a tank each including both the kid's sports and stuff, but that is 60L and 75L tanks.? Move closer to work!

Was close to work. Then work moved away! Not going to chase it as I'm happy living where I am. That's why I don't complain about the commute :p

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Colinspocket

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#621814 8-May-2012 18:27

One word.

Scooter.

Scoot scoot scooter. Love 'em.

That being said don't go to Scootling in Auckland. Sent mine there to get fixed and it's been a three month nightmare.

matisyahu

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#624000 12-May-2012 14:08

Dingbatt:
alasta: Yes. Believe it or not roads are expensive to build.

You don't think the excise from petrol has been spent only on roads for all these years do you? You've got to pay for the country to run somehow, so it's that or jack GST or personal and company tax even higher. At least the people who use the roads pay for them as well.
But wait there's more....... you will see in the not-to-distant future increasing numbers of toll roads. Supposedly to pay for the newly constructed roads that you thought your petrol taxes were paying for.

While you are on the subject of taxes don't forget local body rates, school fees and even medical insurance to cover what the public system can't hope to. And all of the above with GST added.

The petrol tax for years has been going in the general coffers - when I was running for the ACT Party down in Christchurch (Wigram to be exact) I proposed that all petrol tax should go into a dedicated trust to only be used on the transportation and nothing else - when proposed such an idea I received a fair amount of positive support for just such a proposal. There is more than enough petrol tax collected over the years to pay for the upgrading of infrastructure many times over but the problem is that the tax was merely used to prop up the budget.

It goes back to what I said regarding raising road taxes - if people knew that the money was going to a dedicated trust and wouldn't only get spent on transportation then I'm sure the population would support it but it is a well known secret that it never happens that way.

Colinspocket: One word.

Scooter.

Scoot scoot scooter. Love 'em.

That being said don't go to Scootling in Auckland. Sent mine there to get fixed and it's been a three month nightmare.

I've just bought one recently - will pick it up in a week or so. One of the greatest purposes I'll make - cheap, affordable and can get me from A to B with minimum fuss and bother. Once I get a motorcycle licence I'll trade it in for a 100cc scooter. When it is just me who needs transportation does it make any sense getting a car? nope.

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#625179 14-May-2012 23:41

In the US, it is cheaper to pay for a galleon of petrol than a litre here.
Even with all this taxing, the government is broke, go figure.

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