Price of Petrol

[AwesomeFoursome]

Ours is $2.25/L at the moment (NZ). It costs a fortune to keep our cars running. Actually, we are about to move into town because we are spending about $120 per week just going to kindy/work.

OMG that's insane!

[Dansta]

I think it's awesome that people are looking at ways to save their fuel consumption due to rising petrol prices. Petrol should be $2 a litre with the surplus going to environmental causes just to help encourage people to use less of it.

I disagree with that. how can we use less when the cost of living is already though the roof? the farmers have to pay $2p/l how will they keep their farms going? then the cost of living will go up and sadly the world we live in dose not allow the ease of home grown food.

I think that the goverment should be looking into alernate forms of engery. if you want to watch a movie on cars useing alertnat energy look up the movie "who killed the eletric car" and see that its goverment greed thats stalled everything. we need cars, trucks ect. but i think wanting the price of petrol to hit $2 is harsh. i live out of town and if it hit that much - DH would only be working to pay the elect. bill. and we would struggle with any thing beyond that.

[~clover~]

I understand where you're coming from Meow. And in the cities that'd be one thing. But in the country where people can be travelling 100kms twice a day for work, there goes around half the average weekly pay.

Public transport isn't available everywhere & sometimes simply biking or legging it just is not feasable. How would those of us outside the city survive? I struggle to take my kids anywhere as it is beacuse of petrol prices. I'm 300 kms from the nearest shopping centre. Thats a 600km round trip. I can only afford to get there every month or 2 as it is, so I'm paying around twice what I could pay for every day groceries. In a big family car its $80 - $100 in petrol down there & back. Another 50c a litre in petrol & it'd be costing me around $140 - $150.

ETA - Just thought I would mention that there are alot of people out here in the country who do car pool. More than you'd think. Trying to save their cars & their money.

[Cranky Kitten]

I think it's awesome that people are looking at ways to save their fuel consumption due to rising petrol prices. Petrol should be $2 a litre with the surplus going to environmental causes just to help encourage people to use less of it.

I also disagree with this. Whilst investing in environmental research and developing fuel alternatives is something the government should be doing, funding it by increasing the fuel excise will simply result in the prices of nearly everything else increasing as well as production and transport costs get passed on to the consumer.