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RUC is hardly a hidden tax, everyone else has to pay it
Current Affairs 🌡️ Weather / climate change
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Petrols halved in price to $0.50 per litre in the US (Gallon converted from $1.90) over the past few years.
1 - we have so many taxes on our fuel it’s not funny which causes our cost of living crisis
2 - why doesn’t our petrol ever half in price and jump around like that?
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Because the ones who set the taxes don't want us not to pay them.
Gummy bear
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Firstly because of your first point, with excise duty, road tax, GST, Carbon tax etc more than half the cost of petrol at the pump is tax. Only the GST element varies with the price of the goods, the others are all fixed to volume.
Secondly oil is sold in USD. For the last 8 years our governments have shown very little fiscal prudence. As a result the NZD has declined from 74c to 57c against the USD.
Where are you getting your petrol prices from Wiz?
The average petrol price for regular grade in the US is $2.81 per gallon or $NZD1.24/litre
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US petrol price varies massively from state to state. IMO is misleading to look at the average price as this is very distorted by California.
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The wise one himself
Where Trump is likely getting his $1.98 gas price figure
U.S. drivers were paying $3.165 per gallon on average Monday, according to the motorist association AAA.
Lowest Prices,$2.25 – $2.45,"Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, Iowa, Mississippi"
Highest Prices,$3.80 – $4.45,"Hawaii, California, Washington, Nevada"
Highest Prices,$3.80 – $4.45,"Hawaii, California, Washington, Nevada"
One thing you should know by now is that the King is anything but wiseThe wise one himself
Where Trump is likely getting his $1.98 gas price figure
U.S. drivers were paying $3.165 per gallon on average Monday, according to the motorist association AAA.www.cnbc.com
Yes, yes, it is real.
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Extreme rainfall events a 'peek into the future', climate experts say
One expert says the kind of weather events New Zealand was now experiencing on a regular basis had long been warned of.
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Because everything about climate change is bad and everything bad that happens is because of climate change.Yes, yes, it is real.
Extreme rainfall events a 'peek into the future', climate experts say
One expert says the kind of weather events New Zealand was now experiencing on a regular basis had long been warned of.
No, because it's science and it's real. You're on your own journey, sorry for that, you've been conned
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Like the science that said the vaccine was "safe and effective", or maybe the Nazi’s eugenic sceince that said they were the master race or maybe we should follow Al Gore who says “the seas are boiling”. Well they must have been boiling yesterday because when I went for a surf this morning the sea temp was more like 20 than 100 ˚C.
Science is all about skepticism, the day we agree the science is settled is the day science stops advancing our knowledge or the universe.
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yep keep calling anyone who disputes your view a nasty name, that is the foundation all science is built on...ahh wait, what.
Antivax is hardly nasty, when that is exactly what you said above. I am interested as to how you think that science wasn't correct though
The government know man made climate change is directly related to the increased strength and frequency of weather events.
Yet this hard right government are doing everything possible to return to no mitigation and fossil fuel reliance
The insurance companies know man made climate change is directly related to the increased strength and frequency of weather events.
They won't insure you any more
The banks know man made climate change is directly related to the increased strength and frequency of weather events.
And they all walk away and socialise the losses, while privatising any profit to be gained.
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Yet this hard right government are doing everything possible to return to no mitigation and fossil fuel reliance
The insurance companies know man made climate change is directly related to the increased strength and frequency of weather events.
They won't insure you any more
The banks know man made climate change is directly related to the increased strength and frequency of weather events.
And they all walk away and socialise the losses, while privatising any profit to be gained.
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‘End state’: Simon Watts signals reset of Govt’s role in buyouts for homeowners after major weather events
Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says government objective is to mitigate genuine hardship not distort risk signals for homeowners hit by extreme weather
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