She plans to do this by not adding new petrol taxes, and instead steal their money through taxing the producers.
Ordinary motorists set to be spared fuel price rise
PM says move will be a big help to ordinary Aussies
Move will save motorists extra 6c a litre at pump
ORDINARY motorists will be saved from the carbon tax under a federal deal that shields households from spikes in fuel prices.Prime Minister Julia Gillard today announced one of the most significant planks of her controversial tax in a bid to ease concerns about increases to households bills.
“For the many, many Australians who drive long distances, maybe to work, maybe driving their kids on the weekend or going on holidays with the family, this will be a big help,” the PM told the Sunday Herald Sun.
“This means that families, tradies and small businesses won’t pay a cent more at the petrol pump because of the carbon price.”
More than 12 million “ordinary” motorists – families, tradies and small business – will be exempt from paying about 6c a litre extra at the pump under a price of $25 a tonne.
It is expected the price of carbon will be about $25 a tonne when the tax starts in July next year.
Environment Minister Tony Burke said the point of the carbon tax was to target Australia’s 1000 biggest emitters.
“The individual motorist is not one of those,” he told Sky News this morning. “It makes sense for motorists to be carved out.”
He said the government well understood that drivers were already under the pump, arguing price pressures were “100 per cent already there”.
He wants Opposition Leader Tony Abbott to admit he was wrong about petrol costs going up under a carbon price.
“In the last four months, Tony Abbott on more than 20 occasions has said a price on carbon will put petrol up,” Mr Burke said.
Julia’s band of mental midgets thinks they can tax producers – without the cost of products going up.
Ordinary people don’t eat food delivered by trucks to the grocery store?
It’s ok, let them eat cake.
Steve, Apologies for o/t, but this looks as good a place as any th point you to this. Axe if inappropriate.
“A new British comedy sets a record:
The UK film, starring Dougray Scott (who previously appeared in Desperate Housewives as Teri Hatcher’s love interest), Four Weddings and a Funeral actor Simon Callow and Gordon Ramsay (as himself), had indeed achieved one of the most remarkable opening weekends in cinema history, though not quite in the sense that the producers were hoping for.
Love’s Kitchen grossed precisely £121 ($181) nationwide…
Daily Mirror:
Love’s Kitchen is so terrible, I positively urge people to see it for a masterclass in how not to make a film. The effect is like smashing plates over your head while suffering from violent diarrhoea.” From http://blogs.news.com.au/couriermail/andrewbolt/index.php/couriermail/comments/no_diners_at_loves_kitchen/
Clarke and Dawe: the Australian voter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwSJsDp5k7Y
LOL
Or like Steven said , buy a bike
Bicycle Pays For Itself In Three Months
Posted on July 2, 2011 by stevengoddard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8XXS1v2TNQ&feature=fvwrel
QUEEN – BICYCLE RACE
For Freddie Mercury is bicycle, code for something else? Just saying!
Ah, the recipe of crowd control so successfully employed by Arab despots and Hugo Chavez, now coming to Down Under: fuel subsidies.
Gillard to oil companies: we’re going to tax you, but you’re not allowed to pass those costs on to consumers, so you’ll just have to live with less money.
Oil companies: OK.. sure thing.
Apparently Gillard wants to sell us some swamp land, too.