GET REAL ABOUT FUEL COSTS
At every service station in the Wollongong City area, the price difference between unleaded, and 10 per cent unleaded petrol, is just a miserable two cents a litre.
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Assuming that normal unleaded petrol is $1.50 a litre, then 10 per cent of $1.50 petrol is actually 15 cents.
Even taking government excise and other rip-off charges into account, 10 per cent unleaded petrol should be $1.35 a litre at the most.
Unleaded petrol is crap, and should not be put into the tank of a modern motor vehicle. I notice that police cars are not fueled with it.
The ethanol additive does little to help our environment, and government and vehicle manufacturers are not being entirely honest with Australian motorists.
If our government was being fair dinkum with us, then motorists would be getting a huge advantage price wise at the bowser.
Morrison and his lot should either get real about fuel costs to motorists, or scrap unleaded petrol all together.
Dave Cox, Corrimal
NOT AN INDEPENDENT
In response to the page 10 article, ‘Phelps still on track for win’ (Illawarra Mercury, Monday October 22, 2018) Dr Kerryn Phelps will win the Federal seat of Wentworth without a doubt. But, if Dr Phelp's is an independent then I am a bloody mongoose.
Dr Phelps is an open supporter of 100 per cent renewable energy, urgent action on climate change, closing down coal-fired power stations, and removing asylum seekers from Nauru immediately. Dr Phelps is in complete conformity with the green-left Marxists which explains why both Labor and the Greens virtually ran dead in the seat.
As this is the most wealthy seat in the country, higher electricity and fuel prices will not effect these people as it will most Australians. And given Dr Phelp's win I recommend the following: Firstly, take the asylum seekers and place them in Wentworth; Secondly, cover every park with solar panels and put wind turbines on the beaches of the electrate; Thirdly, get the Sydney City Council to cut the electricity (which comes from reliable but naughty coal-fired power stations) to the people of this electorate and let them survive on renewables.
Adrian Devlin, Fairy Meadow
A WONDERFUL DISPLAY
What a wonderful display of sporting history. The whole exercise turned out to be a memorable tribute not only to rugby league, but to sport all over the world.
It was a great display of human compatibility and understanding. It goes to show that if greed and money are taken out of the equation, then amazing things like this can and will still happen.
All credit to the Aussie team for taking a pay cut to make this happen. Hopefully, some of that money saved went to the Tongan team who play for no or very little money.
Not only was it a very exciting and skilful game; but also the crowd, in a sea of red, turned the whole happening into a wave of celebration, excitement and happiness which would have been viewed and enjoyed on the world stage.
This concept needs to stay and be nurtured for the future benefit of rugby league worldwide, and sport as a whole. Great work.
Steven Thomas, Shellharbour
