I hate it when you order something that claims "Next-day Shipping" and then it comes two days after it was shipped. :\
It says next-day shipping, not next-day arrival. That means they put it in the mail on the next day.
Well, I got an e-mail confirmation that it shipped very late on Wednesday, and then I received it when the mail came on Friday. I call that two-day shipping.
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Ferret Warlord wrote:
Flygon wrote:
Petrol prices.
Get a bike, you lazy thing.
You want me to ride a bike for 160km total every weekday?
That would take up 10 hours of my life every day, more time than I'd spend in Uni. I'm getting transferred next year to a Uni I can take a 10 minute V/Line train to.
If I had a Steam Engine like my avatar suggests, I'd be running on Diesel instead. Somehow, the Diesel prices keep going cheaper than Unleaded. Yes, there are real world Diesel fueled Steam Engines.
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It's less lying and more pointing out that the Diesel and Unleaded prices vary independently in Australia and tend to be cheaper than one or the other at various times.
It's less lying and more pointing out that the Diesel and Unleaded prices vary independently in Australia and tend to be cheaper than one or the other at various times.
its the same in germany, here you also have cheaper taxes for diesel. on the other hand the overall price is like nearly twice the american
edit: looked it up, its 4$ vs 7.40$ per gallon
So dont get me started :-D
How should I know what I think before I read what I post?
Taxing fuel in Europe seems to be a vicious cycle (that for some strange reason the governments cannot see and hence never break):
The government needs money, so it taxes fuel heavily. Taxing fuel heavily stifles the economy (because, among other things, transportation is completely vital for a working economy). A stifled economy means less money for the government in the form of taxes. Which means the government raises the fuel taxes to get more money. And so on and so forth.
The only possible result if this vicious cycle is not broken is a complete collapse of the economic system and the government. The government is killing itself.
