Archive for June 27th, 2008

A food pricing inquiry

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Sue Kedgley set off a bit of a flurry with her parliamentary line of questions yesterday calling for a pricing inquiry into supermarkets and a possible supermarket code of conduct:
Sue Kedgley: Does she agree with Consumer New Zealand that with a concentrated market dominated by a very small number of players, consumers need better information […]

Oil breaks new records. Again. Is it a demand bubble?

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Oil touched a new high over night, but that wasn’t very exciting. What is interesting is the cacophony of voices trying to explain it.
So, what will be the price of oil ten years from now? Any takers? A Bloomberg article a couple of weeks ago was full of explanations for the rise, from the threat […]

Rural public transport

Friday, June 27th, 2008

I was a bit surprised that my rather flippant comments about the relationship between cyclists and cars drew criticism yesterday that I secretly wanted to ban all cars and didn’t care about rural people.  I would have thought people living in rural areas have the most interest in townies like me saving petrol, kyoto carbon […]