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Government halves fuel excise to cut price on petrol and diesel (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/australia@aussie.zone
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**In short: **

The government has halved the fuel excise, reducing the cost of petrol and diesel by 26.3 cents a litre for three months.

The heavy road user charge will also be reduced to zero for the same period, taking pressure off truck drivers and transport costs.

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[–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

I'm talking more about the psychology. At the moment there seems to be (amongst my workplace at least) a bit of concern about filling up before the price goes up since it seemed to be moving near daily. With it being cheaper (albeit temporarily) people should be a bit calmer about it and remove it from the forefront of mind. Calmer people are less likely to descend into anarchy.

I'm honestly glad you asked because I didn't immediately have an expansion to that ready and had to think about what I was trying to say.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Yeah, thanks for replying to this. Reducing panic buying is probably something I wasn't thinking of a lot and you can see it in my other comments. I'd put a lot of the downvotes down to an emotional situation but this is an important oversight

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