- Labor will establish 12 publicly-owned fuel stations if re-elected in October, with the sites to be determined by where competition is most needed across the state.
- In his state of the state address on Tuesday, Mr Miles will also announce Labor’s plan to ban petrol stations from raising the price of fuel more than once a day and a trial to cap price increases to 5 cents a litre a day.
- Australasian Convenience and Petroleum Marketers Association chief executive Mark McKenzie told ABC Radio Brisbane it was unclear if Labor had the ability to implement the plan.
@PetulantBandicoot Qld drivers: the price of petrol is killing us… Do something about it.
Also Qld drivers: my next vehicle is going to be a large, heavy fuel guzzling twin cab uteJust fuck no. Build better cycling and PT infrastructure, give rebates on ebikes. What sort of stupid shit is this.
It’s realistic and it wouldn’t cost the government anything. You can’t build this infrastructure overnight and people are hurting financially often with very little option to take PT or cycling due to the crappy system. I’m a big fan of public transport but at the moment I still need to drive to actually get to it (which I do)
Is the opposition proposing anything better?
cap price increases to 5 cents a litre a day
I think this is actually a really interesting policy. We’ve long known that the petrol price cycle is a complete farce with no relation to reality: it’s just a manipulative profit-seeking trick by petrol companies. But the ACCC is powerless to do anything about it, because it’s not actually illegal in any way. If you watch the cycle, it’s defined by a long slow decrease in prices followed by jumping way up to the top in just a few days. If they literally can’t jump up all at once like this, it may have a dampening effect on the cycle itself, resulting in more consistent and realistic prices.
… or just ridiculously high prices all around
The swing from the bottom of the petrol cycle to the top was nearly 50c a month ago. It has been divorced from reality for a long while. The ACCC petrol price enquiry did nothing and people were all over Miles about “what’s in it for us poor drivers” when he announced the 50c fares. So it’s a particular pain point in QLD and will be interesting to see what they can do it they push forward with this.
@kerr @PetulantBandicoot
When fuel is $20 per litre I will give it up.
The economy might grind to a halt with expensive fuel, but the average commuter is more likely to explore alternative transport options.Probably only the ten largest cities/towns in Queensland have public transport (most people’s idea of alternative options). There is a large base of voters that could be swayed by this. I would say half the state’s population doesn’t have any access to PT locally, but surely there are actual numbers somewhere. My parents live up north and they’re always grumbling about “things for Brisbane” announced by the state government.
New to Australian politics… Is it “to be determined after the election so everybody hopes they will get one” or am I being too cynic?
*Rubs hands together. * “Who ever gives us the most votes.”
(Wait, is that what pork barrelling is?)
Huh! Thats a bit of a populist swing. Not necessarily bad, just populist. Could work with voters. Might be an expensive ox-cart to pull on the otherside though.
Might be an expensive ox-cart to pull on the otherside though.
What else do you do though? Either give the ACCC 4x the budget, arm them to the teeth and tell them to go get some? Pretty clear the feds have 0 interest in that.
It seems similar to WA’s approach to fuel prices with a bit more bite. Over there changes are locked to once every 24 hours and they have to notify a government agency the afternoon before the change.
And remember: every time you hear the Queensland minerals council crying about royalties on TV and how they’re the largest in the worrrrld, this - along with 50 cent fares, cost of living rebates in your power bill, and a bunch of other stuff - is funded by that.
That and the 50¢ QR rides.
They’re buying votes. One promotes less congestion while the other promotes congestion. They just want commuter votes which is everyone.
government owned services are great, till the Liberals get in and sell them to private enterprises to make the budget look better… Imagine if we still had government owned banks, insurance, utilities etc
