Richard Steele with governor general Dame Cindy Kiro.
I would like to remind any oil industry executives reading this newspaper of how quickly the price of diesel, petrol and oil rose when Donald Trump and his merry men attacked Iran.
While I realise hope is a forlorn emotion, I would still wish that you will put the fuel prices down at the same rate as which you put them up.
Can’t hurt to dream a bit, on this wet and foggy morning…and next week Mr Editor, and dear reader I promise to write about something more cheerful.
It’s just that, this morning, I’m sick of the cost of living, and the cost of doing business always going only one way… up, up and more up
Headlines in the free press this week include – Frugal years deliver plump ag prospects and Ag sector is humming. The part of my tiny brain that is optimistic rejoices, until I read further down about peace settlements in the middle eastern conflict, and how long it could take for the benefits to reach the long-suffering consumers.
Richard Steele
So, it’s only a short matter of time before all the costs rise enough to take all the profits away. And we are meant to be happy?
Is it so bad, am I being naive just to wish for a world where some things remained the same?
A world where wars are a historical memory, where a hard fought for trade agreement provide an advantage to all of us, in which progress was measured in millimetres, rather than miles, so we don’t have to be continuously building new roads.
It all begs the question – what did the latest war actually accomplish?
Nothing from where I sit, other than to again show the stunning incompetence of those who are elected to be in charge of us.
Leaders on the world stage have just blown a few billion, killed a few thousand, wrecked the world order of commodity pricing, and get to carry on as though its business as usual. Heaven forbid.
Then there is our government’s push for further local governments amalgamation.
Before the last amalgamations in the late 80s, we had hundreds more councils, and no regional governments.
Would someone please explain to me what that round of reorganisation actually achieved?
Are we, the ratepayers, any better off? Will we be any better off after the next round, foisted on to us by a coalition that’s trying to do good, but failing.
I’m sure all our local councils can do better. But then they don’t have a very high bar to leap over. I’m not actually sure they could do a lot worse.
Then there’s someone who wants to colonise Mars and has become the world’s first trillionaire. Haven’t we done enough damage to our own planet without wanting to wreck another one?
Or would our salvation come from sending Trump and Mr Musk there to see for themselves whether it’s really such a good idea.
