WILLING TON: Roughly 98 cents a litre is tax and that’s why the price is as high as it is,” Mr Stockdale says.
“It’s a user pay system basically. If you own a car and you buy petrol or diesel..that’s how you fund New Zealand’s transport system.”
The fixed tax that petrol buyers pay goes into the National Land Transport Fund, paying for the maintenance of our roads, upgrading roads and road safety improvements.