Queensland’s Labor government turned heads last week with a bold new election promise. If returned to power, it would set up 12 state-owned petrol stations and limit fuel price rises to just five cents a litre on any given day.
The proposal certainly tapped into a pain point for Queenslanders – Brisbane topped national petrol price rankings last year.
But it was quickly met with a predictable pile on from opposing political commentators, industry bodies and some economists, attracting labels like “risky” and “dumb and stupid”.
Mark McKenzie, chief executive of the Australasian Convenience and Petroleum Marketers Association, called it a “wildly bizarre intervention” in the retail fuel market.
So is the Queensland premier really out of his mind, trying to win votes less than three months out from an election? Or is there actually some merit to this proposal?
Your comment couldn’t have been clearer, but 3 out of the 4 replies to it seem to have interpreted it to mean exactly the opposite of what it says.
Either that, or those three comments are incredibly fucking dumb and their idea of “better product” is “more money for corporations”.
have you seen how much cheaper 1kg on a falcon 9 is compared to the sls
Yes, your comment was the one out of four that wasn’t stupid.
my bad i only saw 3
Ah yeah, your instance is defederated from Beehaw, which is where one of the three errors came from. (They said “water/sewer systems”.)
oh right, I forgot beehaw defederated from world and shit because of mass signups
that was so long ago, do you know how beehaw is doing?
I couldn’t tell you how they’re doing with much confidence, but their communities all seem pretty good to me.