Road User Charges seem like a rip-off. 

Let’s say it takes 80 litres of fuel to travel 1000km. At the current  45.02 cents a litre, the fuel tax will be $36.016 at 1000km. If you buy 1000km of Road User Charges (RUCs), it will cost  $76 for the same distance — more than double the cost for RUCs. 

This is what we’ve been paying for our small diesel vehicle and it’s a rip-off. Vehicles a lot thirstier than mine will save and small-vehicle owners will be subsidising them. I also don’t understand why it goes up every year. 

Mary-Ann de Kort