Rudd duds voters on petrol prices

A major feature of Rudd Labor's 2007 election campaign was an attack on the coalitions credibility as economic managers over cost of living pressures that so-called working families were under, notably high petrol and grocery prices, with the expectation that if elected things would improve under Labor. But since the election petrol prices have skyrocketed, and now Rudd is claiming that he cannot control them -the very thing he criticised John Howard for not doing- and his Treasurer has the audacity to claim that the tax cuts in the budget address the issue. Well they would be the tax cuts that Peter Costello funded wouldn't they. So in effect Labor has done nothing to bring petrol prices down.