Comments on: Bank Holiday Reading | Oiling politics http://tygerland.net/2006/05/01/bank-holiday-reading-oiling-politics/ occasionally acerbic, cultural and political comment Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:22:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Jose http://tygerland.net/2006/05/01/bank-holiday-reading-oiling-politics/#comment-185 Jose Tue, 02 May 2006 20:12:58 +0000 http://tygerland.net/?p=532#comment-185 I know, Tyger, but why don't they inform the public in general with clear words as is their duty? I once had a friend here who confessed to me that taxes on fuel applied by the local government had to be lowered because of the increase on fuel prices - you know a percentage on prices -, but as the public will never get aware of it, they were keeping the same level of taxes just in case. Imagine! I know, Tyger, but why don’t they inform the public in general with clear words as is their duty?

I once had a friend here who confessed to me that taxes on fuel applied by the local government had to be lowered because of the increase on fuel prices - you know a percentage on prices -, but as the public will never get aware of it, they were keeping the same level of taxes just in case. Imagine!

]]> By: tyger http://tygerland.net/2006/05/01/bank-holiday-reading-oiling-politics/#comment-180 tyger Tue, 02 May 2006 18:54:25 +0000 http://tygerland.net/?p=532#comment-180 You’re right Jose, but commodities are ruled by the price-mechanism, and the only solution is a wind-fall tax on profits, which would curb exploration – keeping prices high! You’re right Jose, but commodities are ruled by the price-mechanism, and the only solution is a wind-fall tax on profits, which would curb exploration – keeping prices high!

]]> By: Jose http://tygerland.net/2006/05/01/bank-holiday-reading-oiling-politics/#comment-178 Jose Mon, 01 May 2006 10:15:26 +0000 http://tygerland.net/?p=532#comment-178 Euphemisms are great in politics: "supply and demand economics" means in plain language, a language for everybody to understand, that the oil corporations are availing themselves of the moment when China wants oil to raise prices and stuff up their coffers, at the expense of middle-class and poor drivers who have to fill the tanks of those cars that subsidiary corporations, or sister corporations, of those oil ones sell them at profitable prices. The vicious economical circle. Euphemisms are great in politics: “supply and demand economics” means in plain language, a language for everybody to understand, that the oil corporations are availing themselves of the moment when China wants oil to raise prices and stuff up their coffers, at the expense of middle-class and poor drivers who have to fill the tanks of those cars that subsidiary corporations, or sister corporations, of those oil ones sell them at profitable prices.

The vicious economical circle.

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