I usually don’t care to much about politics, but today Erkki Tuomioja suggested that fuel in Finland should be handled with coupons. We are living in the 21st century and someone comes up with something like this. I care about the environment just as much as the next guy, but for a country like Finland to start something like this, for crying out loud. I really don’t think our cars are the main polluters.
Many of us use our car to get to work and back home, I know I do. Instead of raising fuel tax and coming up with totally IDIOTIC ideas like this lower the prices on public transportation so that it would appeal to the general public. Right now riding a train in Finland is more expensive than riding a car, yes you heard me. If you don’t need the car at all the train is cheaper but if you need to make your way to the train using a car, which I would have to do, it’s cheaper to ride the car ALONE from Karjaa to Helsinki. Sure I pay for insurance, the car, wheels and so on and so on, but that’s something I’d have to do any way. So instead of taking the train and pay a monthly fee of 300+ euros I can ride in the comfort of my Audi A6 and have my peace and quiet for 300 euros in fuel cost per month.
I bet you are thinking that, well for that price you’ll still save money going with the train, wrong. I’d still have to take the bus or tram the rest of the way, which also cost a monthly fee. I mean COME ON, are Finnish politicians really this stupid? These prices were with a monthly fee, which is the second cheapest way to travel by train. If I’d pay for a whole year I’d save a few buck, but what if I get really sick and can’t go to work, money down the drain and Valtion Rautatiet makes some profit. If I want to go to Helsinki and back with a normal ticket from Karjaa, how much will that cost, well with the Inter City trains(I wont travel with something that has plastic seats, because it’s not comparable with a car in any way) it costs 16,10 euros, one way. If I pay that in fuel I get about 13 liters of diesel with the prices today(1.189€). Considering my car takes around 7,8 liters / 100 km I drive almost 170km for that. So for the same amount that a train take a person 70km a car can take you 170km.
Now today some f*****n idiot like Tuomioja comes up with the great idea to save fuel by setting coupons, that would mean that everyone got some coupons and that’s the fuel you can buy. After that you’d have to buy coupons from someone that doesn’t use as much fuel as you do. Who the hell is to say how much another person needs to be driving? Are we all kids in this country now? God damn what kind of idiots voted that son of a b**h to the parliament.
I pay my taxes, so I also pay his salary. And this is the s**t they come up with. For crying out loud, you can’t fix the fact that people here use a car a lot. Our public transportation is not really good everywhere, I admit it’s quite ok between my house and Helsinki but it just costs way to much. Public should be cheap, the government should pay for some, our taxes should be put in that also. If you lower the prices more people will start to use trains and we will have less costs in fixing our roads(if you’ve been to Finland you know how bad they are) and could put some of that money back to public transportation.
So to end this post, one image says more than a thousand words. So here is a image for you Erkki
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