Mr Brian P Porter and to all those that share your opinion. ”think” before you speak. Your figures may be correct but the rest of your letter is based on biases.

This current government is not fleecing you by increasing fuel taxes, no more than the last government or all others who all are responsible for the same act.

Please do some investigative work on Marsden point refinery, who built it, who owns it and what they do there. And finally Mr Porter, you, me and everyone else are the reason why taxes go up. More so the last government who allowed mass migration to this country, caring more about the red hot economy allowing your greedy expectations to surface. Two to three cars per household, housing boom without proper infrastructure and so on, and all the while you refuse to pay more taxes and expect the country to run on old dollars as you demand better amenities. This current government does not benefit from taxes, you do. It may not be spent the way you would like, but hey you're just a citizen. This is your system. Alternatively you could privatise everything and have no government as National and the business round table would like and see how long that would last.

Richard Stewart, Te Puke