Petrol prices

GaryKelly · Guru

Petrol prices

oldbobsbus · Guru

I went up to Brisbane today and got 91 unleaded for 141.9c
Yet it is 154.9c here in Grafton..
Me thinks the oil companies are getting at us and ripping us off..

JayDee · Guru

If ever there should be an enquiry into anything it should be the retail price of petrol.

Why is it that within a heart beat, that all servo have increased or conversely decreased the price of petrol.

I am a firm believer that price fixing at retail level goes on in the industry. But of course the culprits will use the old social media and internet as to how they know immediately what the price is at any given time.

Just another example of how we are being ripped off.

jay&Dee

reglynn · Guru

It's still a $1.60 in Tassie, looking forward to cheaper petrol back on the big island next week.

rosco532 · Senior Member

JayDee......If there ever was an inquiry into petrol prices they should include the price of bottled water the swines are charging..

I realized on my way to work a few days ago that I had forgotten my water bottle so I stopped at the only servo on the way (no normal shops)...For a 1.5ltr they charged me $4.99.......Then she asked if I had gotten petrol as well.....told her I couldn't afford the petrol after paying for their expensive water.....She just laughed...thinking that was funny.

I sure as hell did not think it was funny.

BTW...Petrol was $1.41ltr for unleaded with the discount.

-- Edited by rosco532 on Friday 2nd of May 2014 07:39:02 AM

native pepper · Senior Member

Fuel costs will only get higher and it should reach $2 lt this year, as world economies collapse and fuel becomes scarce as demand increases every day Asia puts tens of thousands of new vehicles on the road each day. Now we don't refine oil in Aus, we are at the mercy of foreign owned and operated supplies. Still amazes me our country has done nothing to make sure we have fuels for transport and industry for the foreseeable future. Was shocked when bought some unleaded for our chainsaws for the first time this year and discovered the price of fuel. don't think we could afford all the travel we do if we had to pay for fuel.

Haven't purchased water for many years, we always carry our own filtered water from home in glass bottles. We also have filters in the bus, a desalinator and sports bottles which have filters in the caps, so where ever we are we can have filtered water.

goldcoaster · Senior Member

How do you not pay for fuel native pepper in your travels ?

native pepper · Senior Member

goldcoaster wrote:
How do you not pay for fuel native pepper in your travels ?

Every engine and form of machinery we own runs on seed oils, we grow a lot with others and process the oil from that, as well as use some native plants. Been doing it since the 1970's, in trucks, buses, boats, tractors, the only fuel we buy is petrol for our large chainsaws. We use cordless chainsaws, except for big trees and milling our building materials. Admit to buying some diesel last year when we ran out of biodiesel for starting because of my mistake, so very reluctantly bought 20Lt. Our bus carries over 1000lt of oil, so goes a long way, we carry a small portable centrifuge so we can process any waste oil we come across if we need it. So far only used it a couple of times and that's when we cover more than 4500klms in a trip.

goldcoaster · Senior Member

Amazing , does your exhaust smell like fish & chips ? Only way to go.

Ontos45 · Guru

When in Sth. Africa in the 70's I believe farmers grew so many acres of oil seeds on part of their property which were then sent to Government processing plants to be converted to bio-diesel. This was used by the farmer for all his planting and harvesting for the season. At the end of the season he ran normal diesel through his tractor etc. to clean the jets. (NASCO plants I think by memory based on research done in Germany during the war)

graham (chickenman) · Senior Member

Average for 91 octane unleaded in Whyalla Sa yesterday 1 st may was $1.54.9 a litre

ozjohn · Guru

We're in Vietnam at the moment and 92 Ron is only 16 cents a litre.
Yep! That's right, 16c not $1.60.
Ozjohn.

graham (chickenman) · Senior Member

WOW, lets all us nomads go to Vietnam, 16 cents a litre, umm wow $10.88 to fill my Fairmont full of fuel with 68 litres biggrin