I have to track my fuel and repair costs for tax purposes, but I only do it once a year. In my experience, we in Australia are paying ridiculously high prices for fuel with our currency being amongst the strongest in the world currently. I recall a couple of years ago when the US/A$ exchange rate was about .65-.68 consistently, we were paying 68-75c per litre, with the price of oil over US$100 per barrel. Now the price of oil is less than US$70 per barrel, our A$ is worth more than US$1, and I'm paying A$1.45 per litre - go figure. Reports in the Australian press have it that the price of oil is actually set by commodities speculators rather than supply and demand factors, so that we are faced with consumers being ripped off on a daily basis - when can we take 'em out and shoot 'em?
John Coyle Brisbane, Australia -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob Studdert Sent: Sunday, 17 July 2011 11:53 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT: Gasoline prices? On 17 July 2011 11:16, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > Of course not. But the that universe is a foreign world to me. I know such > behavior is common to scientists IT folk and the like. No offense, but I don't go there. I'm guessing it has a lot to do with spending limited available funds most wisely. As such I need to track all my expenditure also. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
