From: graftonftc@oft.commerce.nsw.gov.au
Subject: Your complaint. (4647837).
To: maxadiff@yahoo.com.au
Received: Tuesday, 10 March, 2009, 1:26 PM
Dear Mr Cook,
I refer to your correspondence dated 6th March, 2009 regarding your dealings
with a Woolworths petrol station.
The Office of Fair Trading requires further information in order to address the
issues you have raised. Accordingly, could you please supply full details of
your complaint including contact details and address of the trader and clarify
the outcome you are seeking. The information can be emailed to:
graftonftc@oft.commerce.nsw.gov.au. Please quote reference number 4647837.
Please note that if the Office of Fair Trading does not hear from you within
seven (7) working days from the date of this letter, we will assume that the
matter has been resolved.
Yours sincerely
Carole Dean
for Commissioner for Fair Trading
10th March, 2009.
50 Victoria Street GRAFTON NSW 2460 Australia
Tel (02) 6641 0900 Fax (02) 6641 0999 TTY 1300 723 404
Fair enough.....!
Didn't stop me slinging-off this extra-piece, however....
Wed March 11th, 2009
To the Office of Fair Trading etc...
Thanks for your response.
Clearly, I'm in no position to ask the OFT to address this. I submitted the "allegations" to you to alert you and the public that such scams exist.
Proving this case is too late, but as I wrote in the text, these things do happen. (Recommended reading: Bertolt Brecht's "Threepenny Novel")
They are also as likely impossible to prevent or police fully.
In this example, where it's possible the provider has been selling under-amounts, I suggest that if the OFT is serious about ensuring the public are not being ripped-off (especially to the potential amounts in this type of scam), the OFT could deploy employees with "certified" (as accurate volume) or whatever, fuel containers, checking petrol stations randomly. And over at least one complete financial year.
Of course, as corruption is rife throughout most governments departments, corruption typically of the multinational corporate and "Rum Corp" models, and as these same type of corporations (Caltex, Woolworths, etc.,) hold governments to ransom in terms of promising "jobs" for favored treatment,any serious campaign to expose the big criminals will be watered-down by the 'advisers', or drowned-out altogether.
If such a scam was found to be widespread, and was proven, the ramifications are huge, and give support to a case for the nationalization of those offending providers. Nationalization is suggested as the most efficient way to compensate the angry public for quite likely being undersold fuels for decades.
In this time of economic meltdown, with multinational corporate bankers and other industry leaders being brought to their knees, and exposed as either crooked, as in the banks, or extremely poor planners, as in the big-auto makers, it is not enough to expose them, without giving equal justice to those who are in complicity with those big profiteers, and, by no coincidence their customers, the big polluters.
The global economic (& environmental) crisis is hitting the food and fuel buyer and the supplier, so all look for ways to save or extract further profit.
A Proper Analysis determines that centralizing foodstuffs, as in supermarkets, in antipathy to encouraging People to grow their own foods, is uneconomic, which is, unhealthy long term, for socio-enviro conditions. (I put it that the same applies to the whole notion of "cities")
Divorcing people from the knowledge of how to grow (improve, store and cook) their own food, may be found to spell the destruction of the Tribe. Not only because when serious crises hit, we starve with food under our eyes, or staring at desertified fields, but that the long term "weight" and effects of ALL the infrastructure needed to support that centralized lifestyle, times billions, simply overwhelms the globe's ecological infrastructure, as we now have upon us...... thus the planet's ability to sustain Humanity, and survive.
That ANY Human Being should assume the right to profit from fabricating or upholding any such "industry" or modus operandi, signals one or many serious psychological maladies in their management, thus brings into question their merit in helping Humanity not consume it's Mother Earth to death.
The first thing we, as Australians, and as one Human Tribe must do in these coming decades, is to make our lives as efficient as we can. This is never attained while "private interests" have their profit-centred hands on the Essentials everyone needs, like, food, fuels, and OH! Land.
Yours,
Omaxa bin Eartha,
Outlaw,
for Global Land, Tax, Cult & Drug Law Reform
aka Max Nichols Cook-Meredith-O'Brien
aka Max No Difference
We'll see what 'appennss?
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