Petrol Price Realities -- Jane Clifton in the NZ Listener, and Brian Fallow on fuel prices and inflation

Also -- Brian Fallow "How Petrol Prices will hit home." How Fuel Prices will Hit Home."

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A PM made gassy with fuel-price billiousness lets rip with a good blurt.    By Jane Clifton

Not very flattering, NZ Listener.  pn139

It's hard to see how petrol prices can be brought down without Government regulation.
Most political leaders relish what might be called their “gutsful” moments – typified by Helen Clark, who used to preface drastic action with, “People have had a gutsful of …”

Not all gutsful moments are great “Build a wall/Drain a swamp” theatre. John Key’s were a bit yeah/nah, but you could tell he’d finally taken the hatchet to an issue when he omitted to say he was “relaxed” about it. Bill English struck without warning. He had such a gutsful of Housing New Zealand that it woke up one morning to the news that all its properties were to be transferred to private charities. This didn’t eventuate, as few charities wanted them either – which underlines that the key to a successful gutsful moment is to have one’s ducks in a row so that decisive action can follow immediately.