Petrol prices
R. LEE’S letter (The Examiner, January 16), the price of crude oil is determined each day by one powerful man, when he arrives at his office in the city of London financial district. He is the one with the power to decide at what price the crude shall be sold on the day. He does this every day and has done so for years and years and will continue to do so as long as he lives, but he is rather old now. No doubt, after his death, one of his offspring will start doing the honours from which there is no escape for us, the little people.
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Elizabeth Verhoeff, Latrobe.
Welfare
TO ASSERT that politicians rorting their "entitlements" gives the people the ok to rort the welfare system is not on. The politicians are being investigated for this. What is wrong with investigating the welfare system for rorts? Everyone that I have spoken to on this matter tells me that they know at least one person who is rorting welfare. Often, it seems, that the reason they don't put them in is because they are doing a little rorting themselves. It's a bit like our tax returns, isn't it?
B. Sundstrup. Newstead.
Anti-fish farming
MINISTER Guy Barnett is spot on with his accusation of Let's Grow Tasmania's Future (LGTF) as another camouflage group of the Greens and environmentalists. It needs no evidence, it even smells and tastes like a Green tactic. Do not underestimate the intelligence of the Tasmanian people for most of them know the Greens stand for anti-development, in this case fish farming. Next time it will be some other slogan but all will have the same message anti-jobs, anti-growth and all the other "antis" imaginable. .
Gaylene Dudman, Burnie.
Taxpayers’ money
WHILE Minister Alan Tudge and Christian Porter hound the poorest in Australian, Sussan Ley gallivants around on taxpayers’ money. What hypocrites. How can we find out just who is taking advantage of the rules? Politicians work for us, not us for them.