Thread: Petrol pricing

Originally Posted by Bob38S

We keep getting told that it's all about competition - if you believe that, then the Easter bunny, Santa and the tooth fairy are real.

This morning unleaded petrol was 138.9 cents per litre in my area of Melbourne and this afternoon it was uniformly 159.6 cents a litre except for our local United servo which kept the old price.

And they call that competition.


Peter.

Originally Posted by Sturdee

This morning unleaded petrol was 138.9 cents per litre in my area of Melbourne and this afternoon it was uniformly 159.6 cents a litre except for our local United servo which kept the old price.

And they call that competition.


Peter.

That sort of profiteering used to be regarded as criminal, now we are expected to regard it as normal.

Originally Posted by Bob38S

Not wishing to be the wet blanket....but....check the maximum number of litres you can get for the shopper docket - X this by $0.04 - it ain't that much. I understand that something ( in this case) is better than nothing but think about how much extra you have paid at the supermarket to get it. The supermarket/ petrol/ alcohol conglomerate doesn't give $0.04 per litre for nothing.

The he only thing you get for nothing is nothing - with regards the supermarkets - somewhere, somehow, someone has to pay.

If the supermarket servos can sell it for $1.41 they won't be selling it at a loss so any price above that can only be interpreted as gouging and is a blatant rip off.

works different here
I can buy fuel anywhere on the peninsula and the supermarket gives me 4 cents a litre off

Originally Posted by fenderbelly

works different here
I can buy fuel anywhere on the peninsula and the supermarket gives me 4 cents a litre off

Hi Fred
I just filled up with 57 litres @ $95.65. My 4c refund returned me $2.27. Not even a cup of coffee.

TT

Originally Posted by Bob38S

Not wishing to be the wet blanket....but....check the maximum number of litres you can get for the shopper docket -

Just checked both the Coles and Woolworth discount vouchers and the maximum on both is 150 litres per vehicle per docket.


Peter.

Originally Posted by Sturdee

This morning unleaded petrol was 138.9 cents per litre in my area of Melbourne and this afternoon it was uniformly 159.6 cents a litre except for our local United servo which kept the old price.

Last Saturday, I filled up my fuel tank, which took 121 litres (129 ltr capacity) three 20 ltr jerrycans and two 5 ltr fuel tins. this came to 193 litres. (You can get more than 20 ltrs into a 20 ltr jerrycan). The price on Saturday was $1.347 c/ltr for a total cost of $260 give or take a few cents.

After some driving around Melbourne, I stayed the night with a friend on the other side of town. I got up on Sunday morning and started doing some more running around, some of which involved using about a cupful of petrol in my chainsaw to harvest some fallen timber from Tea Lady's place. The first petrol station I saw that day was showing a price of $1.347 per litre, but soon after that all the servo's I passed were displaying prices around $1.599 c/ltr. total cost of 193 ltrs on Sunday was now $308.60.

I saved $48 or thereabouts by buying the petrol on Saturday compared to the price it was on Sunday.

Then as I was on my way home Sunday evening, having seen nothing below $1.589, I droive past our closest servo to home. I rarely go there because they are not often cheap, but they are often the last one to get the email when the price goes up, and then I go there (and so does half the population of Hoppers Crossing). They were still selling at $1.379, so I queued up for just under 10 minutes and filled the tank up with just over 50 litres, or approximately a $10 saving over the going price everywhere else.

Since filling up, all the driving I have done is to the train station and back, less than 20 km, so I have effectively got a full tank, three jerrycans and two 5 ltr fuel cans full. I think I can weather out the current high prices and wait until petrol is cheap before filling up again. I do not often pay more than $1.39/ltr and usually a few cents less.

cheers

Doug

Come and live in the bush. Come and live 30km out of town. School bus is the only public transport available owning your own transport is a must and fundamental. Cost of Diesel in Tamworth.....around $1.70 per bloody litre!!! Yes I do have a choice, live closer to town and don't drive unless you need to. I fail to see why the big capital cities pay less per litre than the country towns do, when public transport is readily available and that the great powers that be don't want the city streets choked with privately owned cars.


After those remarks I am going to slink back into my hole and wait for the barrage

Originally Posted by chambezio

Come and live in the bush. Come and live 30km out of town. School bus is the only public transport available owning your own transport is a must and fundamental. Cost of Diesel in Tamworth.....around $1.70 per bloody litre!!! Yes I do have a choice, live closer to town and don't drive unless you need to. I fail to see why the big capital cities pay less per litre than the country towns do, when public transport is readily available and that the great powers that be don't want the city streets choked with privately owned cars.


After those remarks I am going to slink back into my hole and wait for the barrage

No barrage from me. There is a conspiracy of sorts and this type of comment doesn't help. The way we are charged for our fuel is a callus disregard for fair play.

TT

At present, we have just one gas station in the village.
They were told by the company to _always_ add $ 0.05 to the city price.
A second station is under construction, that should help the hapless travellers.

I use the industrial cardlock used by the truckers. Just back from the city
where I saw 1.24.9/liter. I know that I pay less than that at the CL and I get dividend $$
each year.
My 454/7.6l GMC Suburban has a 180+ liter tank. Commonly a $200 fill.

Joe Hockey's feeble excuse saying that poorer people don't travel much so the fuel is dearer because its only higher income people who use their own vehicles.
About 10-15 years ago some hotshot came up from Sydney to find out why petrol prices in Tamworth was higher than the towns 100km away. I can't remember who he was or who he was representing but he was quoted in the local rag and interviewed on the radio........never heard a word from his investigations.
You here the service stations saying that there is no money in fuel, so who is getting the money?

Has anyone heard of the proposed "Petroleum (Consolidation) Regulations 2014"
As described here http://sres-australia.com.au/introdu...m-regulations/

The link goes to a UK document.

What exactly are the current regs about petrol storage in Oz?

Tamworth fuel prices are dearer than those nearby towns for the same reason accommodation is more expensive there. It is a natural overnight stoping point for Syd to Bris travellers, it’s a regional centre of some size plus it is a university/boarding school town.

Rockhampton fits much the same description and suffers the same issues.

That’s my theory anyway.

Even thou I work five days a week I do a lot of traveling for other things. So I have to drive to almost everywhere. I am not happy paying such a large amount on fuel but it is something that I have to bear for the moment.

In time fuel will stabilize as we move away from petrol. Yes it will happen just not expecting it to be in my lifetime.

Originally Posted by Bob38S

We keep getting told that it's all about competition - if you believe that, then the Easter bunny, Santa and the tooth fairy are real. .....

If only they were real. We could raise another guardian.

Originally Posted by Christos

In time fuel will stabilize as we move away from petrol. Yes it will happen just not expecting it to be in my lifetime.

It will happen Christos when the people controlling the worlds oil have cornered the market on the "new" super fuel. Even if it is water, it will cost the same as petrol

That is monopoly economics.

TT