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Kiwis are accustomed to complaining about the amount of tax and excise levied on petrol and diesel, but things got a bit silly in the second quarter of this year.
In Auckland during May the price for 91 hit $3.15 a litre while 98 went beyond $3.40. Diesel was line-ball with petrol, meaning by the time Road User Charges were added into the calculation,