Things that piss you off...

So you are calling the Knights and NQF less than mediocre?

You know what pisses me off? People who whinge about petrol prices when they do not at all reflect the cost of the damage burning it does. Fossil fuels are already heavily subsidized, if not by Governments than by those of exposed to the impacts of climate change.

Exactly. City aren't good, they aren't that bad either... just a middling, boring, nothing of a team.

^^^ Cyclist

Remind the Ambulance driver of this when he is carting you off to the hospital. Or if you ever get married and have kids and you need to take them somewhere. Trains and bikes are not always an option.

Fixed spelling.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-04/puppy-killer-nathan-thompson-jailed-for-bashing-dogs-to-death/6442000

This fudgeing scumbag. How fudgeing deranged do you have to be to do that to a bunch of puppies. Fudgeing cod.

I'm not saying abandon your car, but people are incredibly over reliant on them. My point was complaining about fuel prices is ridiculous when they actually don't reflect the true cost of burning them at all.

He was unlucky. Here, he would have gotten 100 hours community service. Probably at the RSPCA.

I would have given him a cumulative sentence of 2 years per dog killed. = 18 years.

so by extension cyclists should be paying their full cost as well ?

No oil no jobs, no food, no travel, in many cases no power. 

It would be an interesting world.

at what point did he say we should have "no fossil fuels" ....? :/

Is there a break down of costs that we pay at the pump vs the environmental cost?  I'd be interested in seeing where this subsidy comes from.

All those things existed before fossil fuels (except perhaps power) and will after we stop burning them (if people still exist then).

Not really sure what you're referring to but yeah if we're going to live in a sustainable capitalist society offsetting the environmental impacts of everything needs to be paid for. Whether sustainability and capitalism are compatible is a whole other issue.

I believe it's been attempted but obviously there are a lot of uncertainties. I can find some literature for you if you want. The subsidy comes from the fact that the users of fossil fuels don't contribute anywhere near the cost of dealing with the consequences.

Oska, you will be pleased to learn that Caltex have stuck yet another 2 cents on per litre today. $2:04.99 for 91.

Going to the specialist for my 'last' follow up on my 3 month old ankle injury only to be referred for an MRI scan because he now thinks it could be fractured. Was hoping to be on the training paddock next week

At least he told you then. 30 yrs after ankle sprain they tell me it was most likely broken back then. Acc no record of injury so is now considered age related not accident. 

Good on them. What a shame it's petrol companies that enjoy petrol profits.

That sucks mate! I bet a lot more was missed back then, have heard similar stories.
My doctor is a sports injury specialist who works for FIFA and Adidas. He's worked at the last three world cups and a few olympic games in the 80s/90s. So I would hope he'll have me back out there soon enough

And the Government too at 65% tax per litre.

NZ Cricket Seems like they have screwed Egdar over just like they did with Wright.Dickheads

Back to my flavour kf the moment. Mobil at Petone by the rrailway station are charging $2.12.9 per litre and yet Mobil in Featherston are charging only $1.84.9 per litre. Can someone explain the 28 cents per litre difference? Especially from the same petrol company.

supply/demand and how much competition there is in their area. Just like any business. 

I thought one price for the whole country based on what the oil companies predict the price per barrel in 3 months time? Then so e regional coincils had a 5 or 10 per litre tax grab to keep them in leather chairs and expensive lunches.

Basically you've got:

Price of oil

Tax

Supply

Demand

Competition.

The price of a barrel of oil being just one of these factors - it is the one that is most consistent across each petrol station (and tax). So Price of barrels increase = price at all stations increase. Whereas demand and competition (and perhaps supply?) is what creates differences in price between each petrol station. 

Do they have a website like this for petrol prices in NZ?

www.gasbuddy.com

I like to use this when travelling as Gas at home is always cheapest at the same station which is just a minute down the road.

wanganui at the moment is $1.83.9

only 1 petrol station in Featherston

Carteton, Greytown & the Mobil at the backend of Masterton were charging between 1.86.9 - 1.88.9

Chorus - Fixing our phone line.

So the technician is supposed to turn up at between 09:00 and 12:00. At 13:30 I find a card saying the problem was fixed, (our internet and phone cutting out at peak times). The tech had not come up to explain what had happened. Still we thought it was the outside relay so sweet.

I log on to the net - nothing. I tried phoning Chorus of course the phone is dead. So nothing works now even outside peak times.

Call Chorus get a very helpful guy he gets the tech to return a couple of hours later.

Tech buggers about for 30 mins. "It's all right now" he says. I say "What about the internet? As I noticed he's not gone near the Modem or other phone jack. 'Yes it's all working" He replies.

I ask him to stay, whilst I check. The Internet is dead still. Tech can't believe it I have to tell him twice it's still dead, (what the f*ck do you expect when you've not checked it?) 

Another 45 minutes and finally he's fixed it and although reluctant to do so does stay around whilst I reboot the comp.  I reckon he could have done the job in around an 2 hours but this job basically took him all day. If I'd not checked I would have had to call him out again and It wouldn't have been fixed that day.

The whole process for us has taken days to get sorted because of Vodafone and then Chorus.

Tech Guy - In future just do your job probably. Check to see you've fixed it rather than assuming it's fixed and buggering off.

Gone are the days when you just report a doggy line and someone comes out and just fixes it.

When I worked there we had faults reported, attended and fixed within 6 working hours. And if a faultman did not show up within 10 mins of the appointed time, customers used to get onto us asap from neighbours phones to let us know. Now days it is "sometime in the morning or sometime in the afternnon" and if they think they can fix it without eye balling the customer, they will.

I have found the Vodafone guys much better than the Post Office guys or is it Telecon guys or is it Chorus or is it Spark or whatever they wish to call themselves these days. it's hard to keep up with the all re-invented names. I think they were call Blue Star at one stage too.

If there is a single Gasoline Alley or Gull station it is likely their price is driving down the others in the area.

But it can be as simple as getting off a main road as well, don't know prices currently, but Porirua Mobil & BP are generally 5c (Or more) cheaper than their stores in Paremata & Mana.

It seems to me Vodafone, etc "rent" the lines and the actual physical side of maintaining them are done by Chorus. Who actually owns them I've no idea.

Pretty sure after the split of Telecom, with Chorus 'created' that now Chorus owns & maintains the lines while Spark, Vodafone etc just rent them. (Unless you are on Cable - Old Saturn/Clear/Telstra, now Vodafone, in which case Vodafone actually own them).

This is why Vodafone etc have to book a Chorus tech to come out, and why it can be such a pain to get a time etc. Chorus have no worries about losing your service because even if you switch from Vodafone to Telecom what do they care you still give them exactly the same amount of money no matter who your retail company is.

drove past the petrol station yesterday and the price had jumped to $2.02.9 so went up by almost 20 cents in one day, i know our prices have been cheaper than other towns and cities but that much of a jump is a bit of a kick in the guts for motorists here.

I filled up in Carterton at $1.88.9 on Saturday. 

Little known fact that I know as someone from Carterton.

The small town produces over 78% of the worlds oil stocks.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/68495472/pet...

Here is confirmation of this from Stuff. Gull had falsely set their price low in the regions at $1.80ish, and everyone else followed and was running at a loss to do it. Then Gull had to lift their price so everyone else did as well.

I imagine the commerce commission would be all over that behaviour. Crazy they've come out in the media and basically said they were employing predatory pricing!