Have Your Say - by AVG

Can high petrol prices be a good thing? Everyone is shocked how extravegant the prices are becoming. However, not many people realise that high petrol prices can have beneficial results.

Ever since the petrol prices have risen, many people do not go out as often and they tend to be extra careful on how much they are spending when they visit shopping centres. It really is a hassle. I drive a Ford Laser and it costs me around $60 to fill it up. I really do feel sorry for the people who drive bigger cars and $60 just isn't enough to fill their tank. However, spending this amount of money just on petrol has lead to many people selling their big cars to smaller cars or changing their car so that it runs on gas. This helps the environment dramatically. It doesn't pollute the air as much and it certaintly doesn't help create a larger hole in the ozone layer.

So how does someone pay half the price when buying petrol? In Melbourne every Monday and Tuesday petrol prices are low compared to every other day of the week. So when your tank is half empty or half full (whichever one you prefer) you should refill on the Monday or Tuesday. For example, it costs me as i mentioned before, $60 to fill up my tank on a Monday or Tuesday when my car is nearly 'running on empty. So when i fill it up the next time, i don't wait for it to go back to empty so i can pay another $60 i wait until it hits the halfway mark so that i can pay half the amount i would normally pay when my car has no petrol. You might think that it is the same thing the only difference is that your paying in installments rather than the full lot up front, but i would be pretty upset if i used my car a lot during a particular week only to find that my car has run out of petrol on a Thursday or Friday; a very expensive day to fill up your tank.

Around the eastern suburbs of Melbourne; Templestowe, Doncaster Bulleen etc. petrol prices can rise dramatically. It was either a Thursday or Friday where i saw a petrol station offering petrol for 145.9. This was outrageous. During Monday's and Tuesday's the price hits around 122.9. The petrol station i use to fill up my tank is right next to my University. It has offered as low as 117.5

Spend your money wisely!

Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia

Vote

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: AVG - Category: No Category

Email this Post to a Friend

What would you do if someone you loved murdered another?

September 15th 2006 12:50

What would you do if your brother, sister or child committed a crime? I am not talking about little things like parking illegally or stealing a pen from a shop, I am talking about a murder.

If you found out that one of your siblings or children had killed someone would you tell the police? Would you put your own flesh and blood in jail?

It's a tricky question because you don't want your sibling or child to suffer and you don't want to be the reason why s/he is put behind bars. Then again, depending on the person's motive to kill another, you would fear your own life aswell.

Personally, i think that my decision would be based on the reason why my child or sibling would kill someone. If it was just because they didn't like the person or something just as a trivial i would probably inform the police. But then again.

What would you do? Would you put your child or sibling behind bars?

Vote

Comments (1)

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: AVG - Category: Issues

Email this Post to a Friend

Smoke Ban

September 14th 2006 06:27

According to Wikipedia, by the 1st of July 2007, smoking in nightclubs, pubs, bars and restaurants will be band. This will definitely cause an outrage for many smokers and for people who want to have the occasional smoke when they go out.

It has frightened many nightclub owners because they fear that people will not go out as often to nightclubs if their cigarette is taken away from them. Many people feel that It will eventually become too much of a hassle to exit the building every so often in order to have a cigarette.

However, on the bright side by enacting this law it will help save thousands of lives. People don’t necessarily develop cancer through smoking but they can develop cancer through passive smoking. Statistics state that a passive smoker’s chance of having a stroke is increased by 82%. I’m not a smoker and it’s upsetting to hear that smoking passively can be just as dangerous as actual smoking.

It’s a health and safety issue that should be taken seriously and further more it will not pollute the air we breathe. Hopefull, this ban will encourage smokers in considering the option to quit. As far as I'm concerned I don’t know why anyone would want to smoke a cigarette from a warning packet that has pictures of rotting teeth and diseased limbs.

Have your say on this very controversial issue.

Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia

Facts have also derived from
http://www.dohc.ie/issues/smoking_ban/smokekey.html

Vote

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: AVG - Category: Issues

Email this Post to a Friend

Abortion

September 13th 2006 12:39

The issue of abortion has been debated for a long period of time. Many people carry different opinions and feel very passionate about this topic, which can lead to many fights and arguments. However, people need to understand that every person's opinion should be respected because it can be indirectly offensive towards that person's culture, religion and upbringing.

People who don't think that abortion is right, generally uphold the notion that aborting a child is equivalent to murdering a child. For many, it is against their religion but they can also believe that every child is a gift from God that should not be destroyed

[ Click here to read more ]

Vote