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I’m sure it’s nothing new to any of you that petrol prices are on this inexorable rise to, well, unaffordability, but do you think as disabled New Zealanders, this is having more of a severe impact than on the rest of the population?
Many of us are on a benefit of some description, and some have no other income outside of this. It would be a real pity, methinks, if rising petrol prices meant many disabled people could not venture out of their homes, in fear of what a simple drive might cost them!
I think that’s where ideas likes the Cerebral Palsy Society’s “Get Out There” programme are going to be of increasing value as we really start to feel the pinch of these ridiculously expensive oil prices.
So what about you? Is the cost of petrol beginning to make you reconsider your lifestyle? Job? Community involvement? Leave a comment below!
2 responses so far ↓
1 john fitzgibbon // May 19, 2008 at 11:52 am
hi guys..
Two things
(1) Petrol I drive a six cylinder car and as a result they have their hand in my back pocket all the time…Govt takes 77% percent of the price of every litre but when tackled about it they go to water.. Lets see govt take their hand out of my pocket and (2) Dyson She is a lightweight. She used the excuse of being “based on the right to sue” which is rubbish. the govt of the day National saw it as a way of giving a break to the medical professsion who were at the time it became law were getting a working over by a few litigants who were sueing for malpractice. They came up with ACC and made business pay the levies which are now monstrous even if you dont have a claim. Over the years ACC has become a monster which one of these days will turn on its inventors and devour them.
I have medical condition which left me a para four years ago…..In a town not far from me is bloke who skied into a tree He has had his car converted to hand drive no charge his car has a wheel chair storage box on the roof and in recent days ACC has built hin a new home designed for his wheel chair. All paid for by ACC.. I know of another young lady who fell of a horse and is now a para and she has had supplied a new motor complete with lift for her chair on to the roof plus renovations to her home. All of this supplied by ACC.
Me….I had a comode chair and a wheel chair suppiled. The first one fell to bits and the second one has to be constantly repaired. The MIN O Health would have us all beleive we can get service seven days a week. They will quite delibertly lie to me regarding this matter. No home renovations, no new car, no hand controls, All of that I had to pay for……
John Fitzgibbon
2 honor kavanagh // May 26, 2008 at 1:05 am
I drive a small, petrol-powered Japanese car, cannot use public transport, and unfortunately live about 17 km’s from my and my husband’s work. If I need to go out at all, I try to combine a few errands into one trip, but really, I only take the car to work and Church now, and otherwise it stays at home. It’s a pity, but the Sunday drive has become a thing of the past.
Someone should definitely raise this issue in the wider media. We as disabled people are affected by rising petrol prices most of all.
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