[bikeqld] Queensland fuel subsidy to end, petrol cost to rise 8 (fwd)

[Ian Lister]

Looks like I'm going to have to eat my words at the March meeting.
Sometimes I love being wrong though :)

Ian

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Richard Hockey <r.ho...@sph.uq.edu.au>
To: bik...@bikeqld.org.au
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 10:33:43 +1000
Subject: [bikeqld] Queensland fuel subsidy to end,
petrol cost to rise 8c | The Courier-Mail

Hot news

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,25573916-952,00.html

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[Paul Murdoch]

I think I may have also said something like "you've got Buckley's" (although
technically they haven't redirected the $$$ to cycling)

Paul

[Andrew Demack]

They haven't redirected any $$$ to cycling as far as I know.

It's a good thing that the Govt has decided to end this subsidy. No doubt it
was entirely due to letters from CBD Bug. :-)

But petrol had to get to $1.50/litre last time before there was any talk of
behaviour change.

-- Andrew Demack

[Aaron Wray]

I'm very excited about this. Yes I agree this will make very little difference in the way of behaviour change unfortunately (Prove me wrong people please I'm happy to be wrong on this one!) . Fuel can fluctuate by 10c/l in a week. It's probably a good thing they didn't change it because of cyclists, last thing we need was more people out there with reason to hate us occupying 'their' space.
 
You have to love the RACQ's optimistic cost impact of between $200-$300 pa. You would need to do between 20,000-30,000 kms a year to have that sort of impact which is higher than most motorists do (assuming around 10l per 100kms). Considering the way mortgage rates have been going down over the past year I think it's quite a minor issue even for those high end users.
Cheers
Aaron