PCIII cost from US

The "something" which is wrong, is the idea that the price of an item is
directly related to the cost of production.

In fact, the price of stuff is what the seller thinks they can get for
it.....or sometimes a bit more.

regards,
CrazyCam

 

Having just spent 7 months in Saudi I can tell you that this is no
exaggeration
The country has 0 tax, No fuel, income or Import taxes
Petrol costs around 10 AUS cents a litre
Large Lamb dinner cooked and delivered halfway across town < $5 AUS

Mal

 

Remove oil production from their economy and they are a basket case.
If Australia had the oil the arabs had do you think we would be as
heavily taxed?

 

They've already stated their case for aid from the UN should alternative
fuels cripple the petroleum industry....

Doug Cox.
Work to ride, Ride to work...

 

Couldn't agree more, Cam, plus there's the other one: value. Cost, price
and value. All different, scarcely even related, but so many think they're
the same thing.

Conehead

 

Aid schmaid
How much aid would they receive to keep up with their so called standard
of living?
They'd be no better than a 3rd world basket case complete with aid.

 

I was talking about your comment that "we don't make anything in this country,
so it's import nearly everything". On the contrary I'd say in comparison with
Saudi Arabia we make shitloads of stuff and it's S.A. who makes sweet eff a...
which would help explain why the **** are they driving Chevys built in
Adelaide and eating Australian reared sheep.

Nev..
'03 ZX12R
'02 CBR1100XX

 

the chevys go so fast moite

and you wouldnt take kiwi sheep

 

Yes.

regards,
CrazyCam

 

these.

How come the Gov'ts 10% is bigger than anybody else's?

Theo

 

"atec77" wrote

populace .

Are you saying the Labor Gov't is smarter than the Libs?

Theo

 

huh ?. I seem to read it as the labor party are even worse bastards to
invent this unrepealed shiite.

 

"Smee" wrote

Umm, my understanding of how Oz oil works is that it costs $1 a barrel
delivered to the refinery from Bass Strait. The Gov't then imposes
parity by taking 70% of the price difference with World parity, giving
the oil company the other 30%. The Gov't charges another 40 cents a
litre at the pump, and now, GST on top of all that.

Theo

 

Well maybe not entirely true

Our Govenment holds a Supplus of Taxpayers money at the moment
So really one of two things are happening here
1. We are being over Taxed or
2. The money is not being spent on Roads, Hospitals, Public transport and so
forth
As Govenments really have no money except that raised from taxes
Consider this.
Nev requires a satisfactory bit of road for his 02 CBR1100XX
The Govt comes back to Nev and says we will tax you for this bit road,
construction, on going maintainance and so on
Nev agrees
Two years on the Govt announce to Nev that they have a Supplus of Nevs tax
Nev is really pissed off because his road is full of pot holes
On the other hand Nev should still be equaly pissed off if the road was fine
and the Govt held a surplus of Nev's hard earned
Nev was over Taxed and the supplus should belong to Nev.

So unless we can look out of the window in the morning and see all the roads
in a fine state
No long queues at our hospital Casualty
Trains that are maintained and run on time and move the volume of people
required
Unless all these are addressed the Govt has no right to hold a surpplus.

Mal

 

I was asking in respect to the amount of oil produced in saudi arabia as
oopsed to australia.
The audi's rely on oil and oil alone.
The amount they produce means they don't pay the amount of taxes etc and
their petrol money is subsidised as opposed to us here.
If we produced the amount they did i'm sure things such as petrol etc
would or could be subsidised or at least more of the oil revenue would
be pumped back into the economy.

 

You still missed my point.
If the saudi's had no oil they would have no economy at all.

 

You picked a really poor example. I pay enough tax every year to buy a couple
of new bikes and I've never complained. You also picked a really bad example,
in Saudi Arabia, to compare Australia to, because if my memory of what I've
seen about Saudi Arabia in documentaries doesn't fail me, there are a minority
of very wealthy people (members of the Al Saud ruling family) living there who
own everything and don't need the government (their own family) to provide
services, and then there are a very large number of poor people living there,
for whom the government (Al Saud ruling family) provide inadequate services.
I can at least see, to some degree, where taxes I pay are being spent and
there are few, if any, potholes on my favourite roads

Nev..
'03 ZX12R
'02 CBR1100XX

 

Very True Nev
The Saudi's don't do or make very much at all
Country is more or less run by contractors
Must say I like the Chev lumina's

Mal

 

Malcolm said....

MA> What I find even more offensive, is the fact you can buy a leg of Aussie
MA> lamb in Saudi Arabia, cheaper than down the road at Woollies.

Yeah, but have you seen the quality of the meat that we export? It's
mostly sheep that's only good for mutton. No yearling lambs amongst that
lot...

 

"Nev.." wrote

Well, they wouldn't be your favourite roads if they had pot-holes, would
they?

Sheesh!

Theo