https://www.getup.org.au/campaign/FuelWatch?id=357&dc=430,24485,1
This has got to be the best use for St. Kevin’s Fuel Watch scheme I have seen so far. It doesn’t seem to have any real practical use, except to make the ‘working families’ more and more depressed as fuel prices climb higher.
I paid $1.65/litre to fill up my car last week. $60 bucks for 37 litres of petrol. Oh. My. Fucking. God.
I am infinitely glad that I don’t drive a big ass Mofo of a 4WD.
Don’t get me wrong, St. Kevin is infinitely preferable to our former boss hog who had a scary resemblance to Mr Garrison and he has done some groundbreaking things in the area of international diplomacy and social reform, but WTF was Fuel Watch ACTUALLY SUPPOSED TO ACHIEVE???
Gas makes me cry
which makes me not cry that I share a car with my sister 
also makes me appreciate public transit so MUCH more (even if I do have to sit with some pretty strange weirdos)…
check this out.
http://crunchychicken.blogspot.com/2008/06/fool-sell.html
it’s from the US, but if that’s the case in the US, I imagine that australia’s situation would be far more longwinded & unaffordable.
“Honda predicts that the price will eventually drop to under $100,000 so that it’s, you know, more affordable. Within a decade. A decade? Frankly, if Honda can’t produce an affordable fuel cell vehicle in less than ten years (and these guys have been working on this technology longer than any other car manufacturer – 16 years) then the whole fuel cell industry sounds doomed as a viable option. And how is $100K affordable? It’s not. How about $10K?”
I really like the small EVs that are being designed by a couple of European countries. Like the one in the above link, the Th!nk Ox. But, unfortunately, Australia doesn’t have a vehicle category suitable for the smallest powered EVs & blocked one particular one from coming into the country about 5 (yes at least FIVE!) years ago simply because they didn’t know how to classify it. Lame huh?
Write letters, complain to your local Minister! Bloody gov’t.