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Petrol at $1 a litre?

By / 16 July 2008

Analysis of the government’s roading policy shows that they are basing their transport funding decisions on the assumption that petrol prices are $1 per litre (corresponding to $US39 a barrel) when in fact petrol prices are more than double this, at around $2.20 a litre and expected to keep rising. The government seems to have its head well and truly the the tar sands.

Plus, when doing their cost-benefit calculations, Land Transport New Zealand values the time of car drivers far more highly than the time of people taking public transport. Lovely to think that if we take the train our time wasted in outdated infrastructure is suddenly worth less to the government than the dude driving his SUV to work. Pretty discriminatory against those of us whose financial situation means we can’t afford to own or drive a car too.

Read the article here www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0807/S00272.htm

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