A Bourne's letter stating that we are being ripped off over petrol prices (The Weekend Sun, November 9) is indeed mumbo jumbo. But if any of you feel the same way then you surely would have noticed that you have been ripped off in so many other ways in the way your money is spent. So, to target petrol prices and to compare them to prices overseas draws me to one comment – move overseas to where you will be happy with the price. You live in a Western society where prices will continuously rise, even in a red hot economy, simply because we are a wanting, needy society. The choice is yours on how you wish to spend your hard-earned cash – like it or lump it.

R Stewart, Te Puke.