IMAGINE the increase in disposable income if Australians paid only for the fuel at their weekly petrol station stops.
But of course it’s a pipe dream as vehicle-owning Australians have become tax slaves of big government and their corporate partners in crime.
In Cranbourne West, Victoria, this week, the dream of tax-free fuel and freedom came true, but only for an hour. Prices fell to just under a dollar, their lowest since 2016, after members of the state’s Libertarian Party paid what would normally be grabbed by Canberra Corp.
Organising the stunt were Southeastern Metropolitan MP David Limbrick, Jordan Dittloff, the party’s senate candidate and the APCO petrol station on the Hall Road’s corner with the Western Port Freeway.
The promotion only lasted for an hour between 10am and 11am, and motorists were quick to line up outside the premises, jamming up the turning lane from the intersection.
Limbrick and Dittloff wanted to demonstrate the extent of the growing government grab for money of everyday Australians at the petrol pumps. They said the price slashing just a small example of the impact it could have on everyday people’s lives.
“Fuel excise is about 30 per cent, and we are also paying GST on top of that, so we’re getting slugged with that double tax,” said Dittloff. “Libertarians say that out of the $15 billion a year that gets taxed for fuel excise, only about $10 billion of that goes on roads, so you’re getting a lot of overflows and the government’s pocketing a lot of extra change.”
Prices minus the fuel excise and GST were 99.9 cents a litre for unleaded, 95.9c for e10, 111.9 for diesel and 69.4c for L.P. gas. “Whatever it is that saves us money, it’s great and I do hope this happens in the long term, but for now it’s good,” a motorist told the Dandenong Star Journal.
Officially, the fuel excise is a tax on fuel consumption and contributes to the Federal Government’s general revenue rather than being specifically allocated for road funding or other similar infrastructures.
The Australian Automobile Association says the current rate of the excise is at 50.6c a litre, and over the decade to 2022-2023, only 57% of this excise was reinvested in land transport projects.
Specifically in 2023-2024, Australian motorists paid $15.71 billion in fuel excise, and are expected to pay $67.6 billion over the four years until 2026-2027, as cited from the 2023 October Federal budget.
The Libertarians believe the $15 billion can be cut down by defunding the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), getting rid of the eSafety Commissioner, the Federal Department of Education and lots of other bureaucratic duplication and overlap.
The Libertarian program to prune the bloated, self-serving Govcorp is basically what President-elect Donald Trump is planning in the US, and the resistance is no less furious in Washington DC than it would be in Canberra.
“The government spends $10 billion without really breaking a stride, so we can absolutely find savings without making a difference to people’s lives,” Dittloff said. The Libertarians believe media can best be delivered by private media companies while education should be managed at a state level.
“Going back 20 years now and basically what this shows is that people are really struggling, cost-of-living is something a lot of politicians like to say, but nobody’s actually putting the money where their mouth is and doing anything about it,” Dittloff said.
“If the government were serious about actually helping people out on the cost-of-living, they’d be doing things like what we’re doing today – and they did during Covid, for six months the excise was gone.” He said Australia did not have a cost-of-living crisis, it has a cost-of-government crisis.
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And another one for Daviddd, from the Australia i Institute, achieved simply by searching: Australia Institute gas Studies:
https://australiainstitute.org.au/initiative/gas-the-facts/
Someone asked me where all the rego money goes, and I have nary a clue.
Maybe it is just siphoned off to who knows where, just like the fuel excise?
It seems, as best I can remember, that that Civic Compliance Victoria, which collects all the fines, is privately owned, last known owner being the Salteri family, who previously owned Tenix, Transfield and so on,which built navy ships for the federal government.
An example of Civic Compliance PTY LTD, in action:
https://corpau.blogspot.com/2013/12/civic-compliance-victoria-police-fraud.html
A bit behind the times Daviddd-duh!
I detailed all that a couple of years ago-a coupe of months before the last Victorian election, to be exact-as per my video:
https://rumble.com/v3k2vok-the-victorian-power-and-gas-rort-according-to-obvious-bob.html
On to that one over two years ago, David:
https://australiainstitute.org.au/report/appea-members-who-pay-no-income-tax/
https://australiainstitute.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/P1256-APPEA-Tax-Briefing-Note-UPDATED-13072022.pdf
He, he… speaking of rip offs, has anyone managed to note that Australia is being told it’s facing a gas crisis and gas shortage?
We’re prolly the world’s biggest suppliers but don’t have enough for ourselves? How does that work, fellow morons and squibs?
We’re being sold out and fkd over for years, both by the LNP and Labour/Green/Teal Uniparty, and we know nothing? Even worse! We DO NOTHING,.
Hold the course… Steady as she sinks, Mateys.
Malaysia and Singapore have lots of oil wells in the sea, you fly over and see them, same with Brunei, but Thailand specialises in drilling for others and they have a famous one that leaked in the North West but probably more.
As for the government duty to supply they don’t have a duty to subsidise, the ALP is struggling with that now (electricity) and John Howard was struggling when he removed fuel excise indexing and left it in the same place.
When the unaparty decides something is a monkey on their back on both sides they do a 50:50 deal, we’ll start it and you can finish it. When Gillard went terminal she dumped Ford then Abbott’s turn was to dump Holden and Toyota.
Since we have effectively reverted to a developing country we should keep going with car assembly, instead they are investing in mRNA injections development which no sane person wants. Would you let a chimpanzee attempt to repair your computer ? Why would anyone want their RNA and DNA tampered with, yet that is our new industrial base.
Like any developing country our currency is not worth much, our wages are very low compared to housing cost, we have been screwed for decades now we have lots of debt and no assets and disappearing jobs all thanks to LibLab, the tertiary education is full of foreign students and the mining profits go to billionaires and offshore trillionaires, when the debt crunch comes we have no way to resist, LibLab are piling up debt and removing income streams as fast as they dare at the bidding of their masters in Switzerland, the WEF, UN and such places.
If I remember correctly Howard was selling our LNG to China t around 6 cents per litre, which was robbing himself and us.
I just rang Dutton’s office to suggest modular nuclear rather than the big plants, and also (voicemail only with Big P today) say that the governments are contracted service providers, only, and failure to deliver on those services means breach of said contract, and loss of any right to govern-basically: provide the base-load power for everything, or bugger off.
I don’t see what’s so hard to understand about that, Joe.
In regard to the OS refineries: it is our oil they are refining, as far as I know, and we should be actually doing it ourselves-a long time back, obviously-lest a blue in the South China Sea cuts our supplies off completely.
If you read the reports you will find out why Blackburn says “This is scary.”
It is because we would be dry within a week and thing would move, except maybe the Chinks coming in to take the country.
That is a scary-and unnecessary-proposition, when we should actually be-and could have been-fully self-sufficient.
After all, we were once, and that would be prior to the Lima Agreement, would it not?
John Howard was giving out bonuses to people converting their cars to LPG and Holden even had dedicated LPG models in 2012.
https://www.wardsauto.com/general-motors/gm-holden-develops-all-new-lpg-system-for-commodore
If you put crude oil in a still the gas would be the first thing that floated off and then we could dump the oil in a “strategic oil reserve” like they do with the old wells in Pennsylvania. The only oil reserve I’m aware of in Australia is all the fat people who drive around too much and don’t get any exercise.
“Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) is increasingly being adopted as a cleaner alternative fuel for vehicles worldwide. As of recent estimates, approximately 23 million vehicles globally utilize CNG, with significant fleets in countries like India, Pakistan, and China. These nations have invested heavily in CNG infrastructure, including natural gas stations, to support the growing demand for cleaner transportation options.In Europe, around 1.5 million CNG vehicles are operational, with countries such as Italy and Germany leading the way. The United States also has a notable presence, with over 175,000 CNG-powered vehicles. However, the landscape is shifting; for instance, Malaysia plans to phase out CNG vehicles by 2025 due to safety concerns, while Nigeria is ramping up its adoption of CNG.The global transition to CNG reflects a broader commitment to reducing emissions and promoting sustainable energy sources, making it a pivotal player in the future of transportation.”
When Malaysia says “safety” I smell bullshit, you should see how they drive, you need to watch all three mirrors at the same time.
They said Malaysia produces more than double of Australia’s refining capacity, they are probably supplying Australia too. Exxon refinery alone output in Singapore is bigger than all of Australia’s capacity. Our capacity is down around Thai or Vietnamese levels. Maybe it would help if we got developing country status. We have millions of primitive people who know nothing else except how to go to the supermarket for packaged food and deposit the waste matter in the toilet. Surely one day if we trained them properly we could be “the clever country” and have no child living in poverty.
We do not have the refining capacity, Joe, as the government will not build more refineries.
See the NRMA-not government-liquid fuel security reports, the first of which dates from 2013:
https://raafsca.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/sub18_nrma_attch1.pdf
It’s easy enough to find the others, but I will tell you that Senator James Paterson, earlier this year, told me that they “…are advocating…” for improvements!
Now if Senator James is part of the government, then who would the government advocate to, pray tell?
Why are we sending gas offshore and importing petrol, don’t try to tell me it’s because the gas is worth more, the picture at the top has the price
How many of you have actually gone and written to your local state and federal members detailing what the fraud involved here?
I have, and am attacking the local council that is perpetuating the fraud with their “management plan” for the roads, footpaths and drainage they are responsible for, but have never properly “managed” in the first place, as all of the above have been comprehensively neglected for decades.
So, keyboard warriors: go and do some real warrioring and get stuck into all of them.
I sent a country Victorian Nationals MP this, for which I was the source, and actually got a reply:
https://cairnsnews.org/2024/08/01/guess-whos-liable-for-damage-to-your-car-from-potholes-on-roads/
When you tell them that fraud charges might be applicable they tend to listen.
VIC Premier Jack Allen is getting one of those over the break.
Wasn’t the GST supposed to get rid of all the hidden taxes which we’re STILL paying? Goes to show how we get screwed and how our trust in politicians is misplaced.
Trust a politician? Sure can! Vote for the LNP-Labour-Greens-Teals Uniparty, your pocket won’t know the difference.
“But of course it’s a pipe dream as vehicle-owning Australians have become tax slaves of big government and their corporate partners in crime.”
The “High Priest-Money Merchant Corporation” working together and skimming the cream off our sweat and labour. Still the same old formula except under today’s marketing label of modern democracy.
(The High Priests of course representing the law of the land in days of old and new.)
It’s a pity that garages don’t separately display the government fuel excise and GST on their signs. Most people are not aware of the tax rip off.
Will LibLab legal team be looking for an angle on this
Yeah, I remember good ole “Black Velvet” Malcolm Frazer imposing a new fuel tax to pay for the prior years Guff Whitless extravaganza and continued by the same LNP government, as Mal jet-setted around Africa to meet his favourite colored chicks. The tax was geared to increase dramatically as the years went by.
Great article! Things need to change and quickly. So many corporate thieves in our government and their mates. They’ve been doing it for years but until Australians say enough is enough we’ll all keep paying. The GG needs to be sacked and Australia put into administration for 3 months while we have a fair election without the cheating.
Commonsense will all come back to where it is needed as soon as most of the politicians are levitated, so to speak.
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