ALCOPOPS - Suck My Balls!

SOMEONE VOTED FOR RUDDY!
YOU BASTARDS!

Thanks Rudd, please allow me to shout you one and ram it up ya clacker!
Only then will it be worth this OBSCENE price!

Campbelltown Catholic
Club Bundy and Cola
$8.50

Now lets watch the youth go out and buy Bundy straight and get even more plastered than before your most recent idiotic idea.

AND NO - I AIN'T A BLOODY LIBERAL SUPPORTER!

Fuel: The Mass Debate

Fuel: The Mass Debate

Or How to Knock About 50c a Litre Off the Price Of Fuel

First and foremost this debate should be centred on Diesel NOT Unleaded. Why? You may ask. Just look at the increase in supermarket prices for your answer. While it may cost you $5 or $10 extra to fill your tank everything that is transported (which is everything) rises as Diesel rises. My average basket at the supermarket per week has increased on average $30 and that’s for one person. Australia’s whole economy is tied to Diesel and therefore it should be afforded the same priority and status as water i.e. an essential commodity.

I own a small transport company and I have had to significantly raise my prices twice in the past year just to maintain profit margins. This cost you money too.

I am compelled to write this letter because I am sick of all the namby-pamby pussyfooting around everyone seems to be doing about the current fuel debate. I have spent considerable time researching this area because it affects my income. Contained herein is the WHOLE truth about the debate, the WHOLE big picture, if you will. NO-ONE till now has had the testicular fortitude to stick their necks out and present the WHOLE argument about just how much we are being RIPPED OFF. If you want the truth and the WHOLE truth read on.

DON’T – Listen to spin doctors from the oil companies. THEY HAVE A VESTED INTREST TO KEEP FUEL PRICES HIGH.

DON’T – Listen to the government – state or federal. THEY HAVE A VESTED INTREST TO KEEP FUEL PRICES HIGH.

DON’T – pay too much attention to news or current affairs programs. THEY HAVE THEIR OWN AGENDAS.

So here we go, how to make fuel cheaper!

FIRSTLY – DISBAND FUEL PARITY

Parity, for those that don’t know, is government sanctioned price fixing (simple as that). Parity allows fuel companies to sell their products for the highest current price they find in the Asia Pacific region. It completely disregards supply and demand economics and eliminates any need for competition amongst themselves.

Don’t believe me? Just look at the price of Diesel. If you remember growing up when Diesel was always 10-15c p/l cheaper than Petrol you might understand this more.

How can a product that costs far less to produce (partially a by-product of producing Unleaded as well) and a product that Australia uses more of than any other fuel be MORE EXPENSIVE than Unleaded? Simple, ring Singapore, where they don’t use a lot of Diesel and import all their fuel, find out how much it’s selling for there and charge the same here – sound fair? NOT!

Any other industry who tried this one would be hauled of to the High Court quick smart and prosecuted for price fixing! Oh but hang on, our government ALLOWS them to do this

NUMBER TWO – BARRELL PRICE

That price the news loves to show us each night is the PREMIUM GRADE crude oil price. Australian oil companies DO NOT buy PREMIUM GRADE crude oil! In fact Australia produces around 70% of its own oil and imports about 30%. The cost of production per litre produced here is cheaper than that of imported fuel, but in no way is this factored into the pump price, because they don’t need to (SEE PARITY ABOVE) we pay a pump price based on PREMIUM GRADE crude oil price the same as if we imported all of it, say somewhere like Singapore! Starting to get the picture?

NUMBER THREE – LEVIES

Everyone knows that both State and Federal Governments take a large slice of the cost of a litre of fuel. This equates in total to about 46% of the price per litre. This money is used for infrastructure, road trauma etc. etc. so fair enough right? WRONG!

What is wrong is that it is a PERCENATGE! Look at this. If a litre of fuel costs $1.00 then the Government gets 46c p/l, right? A week later fuel rises to $1.10 p/l; the Government gets 50.6c p/l, bingo! Something tells me that in one week, their costs, IN NO WAY have gone up 9%!

As I stated previously – THE GOVERNMENT HAS A VESTED INTREST TO KEEP FUEL PRICES HIGH. THEY MAKE LOTS MORE FREE MONEY! Why else do they allow fuel companies to maintain PARITY?

If they changed the tax (sorry, levy) to a flat rate tied to the GDP then the fuel price would drop drastically and immediately!

NUMBER FOUR – GST - THE DOUBLE DIPP

Now this one is outright 'THIEVERY' and also applies to cigarettes and alcohol.

GST = Goods and Services Tax, correct?

46% or 46c in every dollar in the price of a litre of fuel is TAX (sorry; again, LEVY).

What part of LEVY is a good or a service? YOU CANNOT TAX, TAX RIGHT? WRONG!

You do the math.

Say fuel costs $1.00 p/l – the GST component = 9c

But hang on a minute 46% or 46c of this is TAX!

i.e., 4.14c of the GST is ILLEGALLY CHARGED ON THE TAX COMPONENT! Not much you say?

FOR EVERY LITRE SOLD IN AUSTRALIA EVERY DAY!

That equates to millions of free dollars for the Government! I’ll say it one more time - THE GOVERNMENT HAS A VESTED INTREST TO KEEP FUEL PRICES HIGH. THEY MAKE LOTS MORE FREE MONEY!

The GST on fuel should be 5.4% not 10%. At $1.75 p/l this would drop the current price by around 8c p/l.

Feeling a little annoyed? You should be!

Even without disbanding parity and introducing real competition among fuel companies, you should be paying about 40c less per litre!

My name is Graeme Strempel, gusto1@arach.net.au and I run a small transport business, I happily welcome anyone, Government and fuel companies included to prove me wrong.

If you feel strongly about this issue then pass this missive on to everyone in your address book. Eventually someone might take notice.

City Of Botany Bay Council!

Council officers go about their daily duties of booking people for parking misdemeanors at over $200 a pop while their street staff continually park in 'No Stopping' and many other illegal spots.
What a joke this is. Write to Mayor Hoenig, he would love to hear from you, then send you out a standard letter about he can't control the booking procedure and that his staff are told not to break the law when it comes to parking.

	Botany Bay City Council		The Office of the Mayor
	Administration Centre		Shop 176A
	141 Coward St		Eastgardens Shopping Centre
	Mascot NSW 2020		Eastgardens NSW 2035
	Australia		Australia
	Phone: (02) 9366 3666		Phone: (02) 9366 3600
	Fax: (02) 9366 3777		Fax: (02) 9366 3800
	Email: council@botanybay.nsw.gov.au		Email: mayor@botanybay.nsw.gov.au

BOTANY BAY HYPOCRITES!

St George: Good With People - Tight With Money

Oh dear, seems St George has joined BIG W up in the lofty ranks of second time offender on the 'Fed Up Foamer' blog site.

Even 'Ginger The Cat' is pissed off beyond belief with this one, so you can imagine how disgusted members of the non-mogey race are feeling!!!!

In all fairness to St George, they had a partner in this ridiculous series of shenanagans, that being the NSW Health service.
Someone I know recently recieved a bill for $35. Not much I know, but it was for a new procedure they tried, without informing them, during a rent operation.
The person in question was fine with this! After all it worked ands it was a small price to pay to sort out the problem. Thus a cheque was sent to cover the cost.

A few months down the track a reminder (aka threat) letter was recieved saying it had not been paid. Upon ringing, she was told that the cheque was never recieved and that she should send one soon.
To make sure it was all above board, said person heads on down to the local St George Bank to check if the, ahhmmm cheque, has been paid or not.
Being told that it was still not cashed, she asked if she could cancel the cheque and send a new one.

"Yes madam, that will cost $15"

$15

$15

$15

Thats almost half the cost of the original cheque you tight mongrels, just to do 2 seconds work on a computer.
You have a bloody nerve, considering the extensive money this person holds in your bank. Or should we say HELD as they are so pissed they are going to remove everything and go somewhere else. You will soon be worse off you money grubbing 'bunch of bankers'.

How many others have dumped St George?
Is there anyone out there who believe they are, as they say, "GOOD WITH PEOPLE - GOOD WITH MONEY"?

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr I hate banks!
And Ginger would like to scratch all of you.

BIG W - Eastgardens!

CONGRATULATIONS

To 'BIG W' for being the first business to be mentioned TWICE in the 'Fed Up Foamers' blog.

Yes it is a truly special business, well a truly special BAD business, that finds itself mentioned twice here. Obviously BIG W is doing something right when it comes to doing things wrong.

Now to be fair to all the other BIG W stores I think I should point out that this is solely aimed at the ridiculous excuse for a photographic lab that is part of the Eastgardens outlet.

Here they have at least 10 photo machines for getting prints done off your camera, memory cards and CD/DVDs. Yet most of the time, when you go to the effort to get there, the machines, all of them, are not working. Not just one or two, but the whole ten.

Various excuses are regularly given, oh yes machine is busted, computers are having problems, staff have been at lunch, or, my favourite, WE ARE TO BUSY AT THE MOMENT SO HAD TO CLOSE THEM DOWN.

I mean HELLO, as a regular traveller to third world countries in asia and user of their same photographic services, I can say that despite having a population far more in excess of ours that they don't seem to have to shut down the machines due too to much business.

A THIRD WORLD country has its act together, why can't BIG W Eastgardens?

In the past they have told me to ring first. I did this and yet still went there to find them closed and had a snotty older worker have a go at me for not being happy about it.

Said older worker, I presume he has some sort of supervisor role, then went on to whinge about all the customers on the top of his voice so people there could hear.

If you shop at Eastgardens and are a regular user of photo labs, I suggest the similarly priced one at K-MART downstairs. Sure it takes a while to find someone to serve you, but it happens a lot faster than the three days it takes for BIG Ws machines to be got up and going.

If indeed it is a problem with the machines, perhaps they should be doing something to rectify it. They are, afterall, a popular service and can't be considered not worthy of some investment.

BIG W - Beware Of Tents

HO HO HO

Big W very generously gave some immense bargains on their tent range this year. I mean, we are talking a saving of $47 on the example we purchased, a 6 man tent of one of those weird modern designs.
Tent put up in the proper manner and not 5 hours latter, without so much as a snore, indeed we had not even entered the structure, one of the supporting poles snapped.
Great, we had to sleep outside on the grass.
Will Big W replace it or tell us to sod off.
Stay Tuned!

I want my experience!

The advertisments said "Come into Officeworks for a completely different Christmas experience"!
I decided to partake in such a wonderful offer, I mean, I have had plenty of amazing Christmases (Christmasii?).
Showing up to buy a packet of pens I was immediately taken by the amazing, well, range of pens. There were some decorations around the place, but still no different a christmas experience than I could get down the Campsie 'Everythings $2' junk store.
It must be at the checkout where a reasonably attractive blonde chick with a Santa hat was serving.
Perhaps the completely different experience was that I would get the pens for free, perhaps commercial greed had been put aside for a week and the good of the community would come first.
When she rung up the $2.15 I realised it must be that she rips off her top.
So as I handed over the coins, I was shaking with anticipation as the exciting view about to be brought forth.
On handing me the reciept, she gave me a small incincere smile (you know, the ones you get at any grocery store), turned away and said 'Thank you'.

Confused, I walked out of the store.

Can someone help tell me where my 'completely different' experience is? I seem to have lost it.