Govt announces halving of fuel excise for 3 months

[onetrack]

The Govt has announced the halving of the fuel excise for 3 months as a way of easing the pain of major price increases in fuel costs. This means that the price of fuel should drop by 26c litre at the bowser.

 

Nothing has been outlined as to how the Govt plans to ensure that the full amount of the fuel excise drop is passed on to motorists, and how they can stop oil companies from keeping a portion of it for themselves.

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-30/fuel-excise-halved-three-months-petrol-diesel/106510432

[facthunter]

There will still be a lot of whingers. Whinging is much easier than thinking  and finding out what is really going on. Bl@@dy Hell. If things got really BAD you'd go deaf from the whining.. People are Being Bombed in the ME..FFS. Nev

[red750]

To hopefully reduce the demand for fuels, Jacinta Allen has announced that Victorian Public Transport will be free for one month.

[randomx]

Well, atm that equals 23c on not sure if he was talking about diesel or petrol as he didn't say that l could see.

Butttt, better than nothing eh. Ofc fuels just gonna keep going up anyway that 23c will be on the price anyway by end of wk but it should still be cheaper at whatever price it gets to.

Pm also reckons we have more fuel in the country now than we did 3wks ago at the start of this so if so we should be right for awhile yet then.

There's a lot of extra stuff in it to help truckies to so that was good to hear, farmers to then l'd assume.

[facthunter]

IF you'd listened to Question time today you'd have all the details. Albo even acknowledged Barnaby's contacting him to get something fixed and suggested others do the Same IF they become aware of Individual Problems. BTW you won't read about that in the Murdoch RAGs

[Jerry_Atrick]

5 hours ago, facthunter said:

There will still be a lot of whingers. Whinging is much easier than thinking  and finding out what is really going on. Bl@@dy Hell. If things got really BAD you'd go deaf from the whining.. People are Being Bombed in the ME..FFS. Nev

Peopel are whinging because the government - some of whom the people elect and pay for, the others whom the people have no visibilit or accountabilioty of, but the people still pay for (i.e. the public servants) don't seem to be doing what they say on the tin - serving the public - at least properly.

 

We have, since the days of Howerd, run down our emergency fuel reserve and then outsourced it to Texas. 

 

 

We give away our gas to foreign companies and nations (Japan, it is alleged, made USD$1.1bn of reselling our gas!!!), yet we don;t properly charge those entities for ou r resources nor properly tax them, you know, such as places like Norway, Qatar, Saudi and the like. 

 

Quite frankly, the way our government and public servants rip is off, the whingeing and whining is very tempered. 

[randomx]

Yep spot , they're absolute bloody idiots they way the handle all that and yet don't even look after our own people.

Apparently they're back up to their other old trick again to now and back to selling the place off in bits and pieces left and right to China and Japan atm too. 

Edited 16 hours ago by randomx

[Jerry_Atrick]

Here is why Aussies should be whinging louder:

 

[nomadpete]

I recall working out near the Qld oil fields (St George?).

I was told that the oil only needed primary filtering & water removal before going straight into the delivery tanker fuel tanks. 

 

Did those wells run dry? Could they be a source of diesel again?

[onetrack]

Nomadpete, those sources of pure light crude are generally only very small reserves and don't warrant major expenditure on extraction, because they soon run dry.

A mate worked for a drilling company in Central Australia, around Alice Springs, about 1982-83. The company had several drill holes that yielded the same type of light crude.

It was drawn off and just filtered and used to power the company Landcruisers. But there wasn't enough of it, to warrant the infrastructure to draw on those small reserves. 

[Siso]

I want to know what punishment the government is going to give the CEO's of the company's that gouged the fuel price on fuel that was not affected by the war. It is the only way this sort of thing will stop. Qantas, commonwealth bank, woolies/coles etc

[facthunter]

There are Independent Bodies set up to  perform that function, Fortunately. They have the resources to get the evidence. The Government have Increased the Penalties. It's already happening. Guess where you won't read about it. Nev

[Siso]

They aren't doing there job.  Must be penalty's for people for this to stop. We keep getting told CEO's get the big bucks because the buck stops with them. Still waiting to see it happen. While some of the fines seem big, they are budgeted for as a cost of doing business.