Petrol Problems Again
The old familiar cry from the newspapers has been raised again as they howl in anguish over the petrol prices and the fact that motorists are being ripped off by oil companies. Well, gee, that’s a new one. I can’t believe the journos are acting so surprised, the oil compnies have had our pants pulled down and bums bared to the world for years.
This time the observation is that the oil prices have fallen by 20 per cent since September, yet over the same period the price at the bowser has risen by 5 per cent. They’ve got university professors and NRMA president Alan Evans weighing in on price gouging. Meanwhile the Australin Federal Govenment and the toothless ACCC will sit back, make their complaints but prove once again how impotent they are when absolutely nothing happens.
The sooner a biofuel is developed at a cost that can sink the oil companies once and for all, the better off we’ll be. Yeah right, like THAT’s gonna happen.
