How to tax gas without killing yourself

Monday 30 March 2026

Weak gas prices continue. As does your having to wait three weeks for anything useful from the MSM after it is reported at MB.

I say weak gas prices, but of course, that is a lie. $10Gj is very expensive. It is just normally so, without any war profiteering added on top.

The ABC is onto it, three weeks late!

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About the author

David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific's leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.