Fuel prices !

1111giles · Post by **1111giles** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:12 am

Hello Scooby folks - Guess what ? Petrol here has just passed £6.00 GBP per gallon !

- that in Aussie speak (based on 1.6 AUD to 1 GBP ) equates to $9.6 AUD per gallon.
Or in litres thats £1.32 per litre (Yipes I can remember £1 per Gallon as a milestone !) Or in AUD thats $2.11 per litre !
Also.......
I paid £1.45 per litre for premium diesel today = AUD $2.32 per litre. (so to brim fill the Outback with diesel that cost me £76.00 ! = $121.60 AUD)

So how does this compare ? and what is the current cost for Petrol and diesel in Australia right now ?

78sti · Post by **78sti** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:23 am

Cheapest petrol in my area is $1.439
diesel $1.399
pulp 98 $1.579
lpg $0.65

Post by **Captain Obvious** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:50 am

I paid $1.51 a litre for 98ron premium the other day $50 got me 31 litres i was in shock when i saw it!!!

Post by **Alex** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:50 am

ours was just increased today in WA..

148.9 nearly every where.

Yesterday it could have been picked up for 134.9

kj0 · Post by **kj0** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 11:33 am

I paid $1.50 the other day for regular Unleaded. that's the 92 Stuff. it was $1.60 or something for 98.

I need to fill up today. Light came on leaving for work, went off, just went out to lunch and back and no light, So need to fill up shortly.

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 12:41 pm

A$1.44 from the supermarket servo for Diesel, 68.9 lpg [bet they'd charge similar for fish n chip shop soiled cooking oil too]

poprock1 · Post by **poprock1** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 3:47 pm

Blame the mad Dictator

Silverbullet · Post by **Silverbullet** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:00 pm

That's why I never want to hear anybody in Australia complain about petrol prices, we don't know how good we've got it!

kj0 · Post by **kj0** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:40 pm

$1.43 This afternoon, $52 for 36L

FROG · Post by **FROG** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:43 pm

Yep saw dollar forty four here today

spambo · Post by **spambo** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 5:17 pm

kind of makes you wonder at what point people will decide that motor vehicles are no longer affordable and decide to use other means of transport such as a horse or donkey, however i think it's gunna be harder to fit a lift kit and big wheels to either animal:mrgreen:

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 6:45 pm

Silverbullet wrote:That's why I never want to hear anybody in Australia complain about petrol prices, we don't know how good we've got it!

Yet we don't need to be following world parody or whatever the scale is called.

spambo wrote:kind of makes you wonder at what point people will decide that motor vehicles are no longer affordable and decide to use other means of transport such as a horse or donkey, however i think it's gunna be harder to fit a lift kit and big wheels to either animal:mrgreen:

Ever paid for the up keep of a horse or donkey? I think I'll stick to my subi...

Looks like my next visit to the petrol bowser will be an expensive one

Bennie

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 6:46 pm

Hey Giles, I'm pretty sure you get a much better grade of diesel over there!

Cheers

Bennie

Subyroo · Post by **Subyroo** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 8:39 pm

I paid $1.569/L yesterday for Caltex Vortex 95 at a Woollies Servo here on the SSC, 91 RON was $1.469/L.

1111giles · Post by **1111giles** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 8:46 pm

Update ! Just heard of £6.50 per gallon near London ! Thats £1.44 per Litre or in AUD $2.31 per litre ! - TOTAL PROFITEERING SWIZZ !:mad:

Post by **TOONGA** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 11:03 pm

I paid $1.34.9 yesterday and today the same petrol station was $1.48.9

I'm glad I put 50 dollars in yesterday and not today

A little known fact In WA fuel prices are set to what is called the Singapore standard. this is all done at Pulau Ayer Merbau Off Jurong, it Houses the Petrochemical Corporation of Singapore. an Island refinery with a rather interesting failsafe, if the island is in danger of catastrophic destruction it can be sunk to avert disaster.

I bet the OPEC board is loving this little problem in the oil rich countries that are currently trying to get rid of dictators .

TOONGA

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 11:56 pm

And the fuel you bought last was likely bought at same wholesale as fuel the day before , just more profit. Relatively fuel may be same as here in UK if average wage here is $50,000 average UK wage may be 50,000 poonds

How much is 60g Mars Bar in UK ? $1.86 here unless heavily discounted, not feeding my Brumby half price Mars Bars, they get race horses into trouble

bobbyjimmy · Post by **bobbyjimmy** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 7:17 am

$1.47 for 98 RON last night.

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 2:22 am

steptoe wrote:And the fuel you bought last was likely bought at same wholesale as fuel the day before , just more profit.

Yep. I bet the crude oil that's the debate in the Libyan dictatorship issue will be a few weeks off from being at the bowser. Yet the prices instantly bump up at the pump. If the price of crude oil drops it will take a few weeks to see them at the bowser as "that oil will take sometime before its at the bowser to pass on the reduced price". Plus its a long weekend over here now so "naturally" the oil companies jack up the prices to unfairly cash in on motorists. I dare say we'll only see the price of fuel continue to rise until the week after easter.

Sad to say but the oil companies have motorists by the short and curlies.

A guy on USMB was complaining about spending $40 to fill his subi. Ruby Scoo when near empty costs about $70 to fill... Go figure!

Julian - that's the same for the rest of Australia, except possibly the NT and Qld where their fuel is subsidised from NSW and Vic. When the government de-regulated the fuel industry they started pricing fuel according to the Singapore fuel index - a market that the ACCC has about the same authority as it does over here on fuel prices, so either way we're screwed as the big companies can pretty much set what ever price they want over there and in true Aussie style we follow suit to our own detriment.

Bastards.

I remember being 10 when fuel prices were 50c a litre, gas was 8c a litre and mum and dad were complaining about getting bros and I a jerry can of fuel for the motorbike and paddock bomb!

Cheers

Bennie

tony · Post by **tony** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 2:36 am

A further little known fact is that some years ago the WA govt legislated that petrol in WA had to be brewed to a higher standard than virtually anywhere else in the world, there are only a few countries that use this grade of fuel so the independent retailers can't just buy from overseas as they can in NSW or other states, they have to to buy from the only refinery in WA, BP, at whatever price BP likes to set.
This means that WA motorists pay around 6 to 10 cents per litre more than other states.
Also fact is that because of rebates given by state and federal government operators of diesel powered vehicles over (I think) 6 tonnes get virtually all of their fuel tax back, so they do not contribute to the maintenance of the roads they drive on. it is all paid for by the private motorist after business tax deductions are done.
Old story of capitalising profits and socialising losses.