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10-04-2022, 05:50 PM | #1381 | ||
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142.5c/L for E10 at Guildford (Sydney) on Friday 8/4/22. 150 c/L is commonplace in many Sydney suburbs today (Sunday). 179 c/L for 98 Premium also.
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15-04-2022, 04:50 PM | #1382 | ||
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Surprised to see that regional Vic (Gippsland at least) ULP its circa 20cpl higher than metro melb. Why would that be?
Looks like quite a few people may have been caught out, as many of the stations were pretty chockers. Paid $1.75 for 98 before heading out this morning.
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15-04-2022, 04:54 PM | #1383 | |||
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15-04-2022, 06:56 PM | #1384 | ||
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Just had a quick look at PetrolSpy and even though it is two long weekends in a row and many would have taken off next week, even cheaper than before I last filled up with 98. WTF?
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15-04-2022, 07:07 PM | #1385 | ||
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Election. Lib's cut the tax sending a real message to the petrol stations, pretty sure they don't want Labor voted in, bad for business... See how the numbers look in 5 weeks.
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15-04-2022, 07:22 PM | #1386 | |||
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Haven't really noticed groceries bill dropping either, but then again I hadn't noticed that they had spiked before the fuel cut. I have however noticed that eating out has gone through the roof!
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15-04-2022, 07:25 PM | #1387 | |||
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It always goes up long weekends but somehow cheaper now than before |
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15-04-2022, 07:39 PM | #1388 | ||
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I'm not sure it had worked it's way through, prices had gone up early (as usual) but they were on notice to drop them quickly.
Likewise, I'm not sure the $320 saving is what the petrol stations are thinking, just that at this unstable time (for them) it's best to keep the boat steady... Give it those 5 weeks though. I've abandoned my less favourite lunch places that are now $15 a meal too. Except one, they actually do a pretty good curry... But I'd noticed they also reduced the quantity of meat in one meal when the price rose. I persisted and it was a one-off, possibly they got complaints, and/or otherwise they would have been abandoned too. I buy cheap sandwiches on the days I skip the old regular places, I can afford to lose some weight. |
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16-04-2022, 01:44 AM | #1389 | |||
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Eating out has been more expensive since we opened up again. Serving sizes are down and prices are up. And now places are expecting tips too. |
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16-04-2022, 08:28 AM | #1390 | ||
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What an absolute rip off.
Had to go down to Brisbane for a couple of days and while 91 was down in the dollar fifty mark, diesel was still up in the dollar nineties. |
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16-04-2022, 08:41 AM | #1391 | ||
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Still cheaper than a bottle of Coke!
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16-04-2022, 01:43 PM | #1392 | |||
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The joys of living in a 'tourist' area. Don't eat out any more, bought a proper coffee machine, and stay at home now. Mastered the coffee, better than the cafe now.
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16-04-2022, 05:23 PM | #1393 | |||
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16-04-2022, 09:12 PM | #1394 | |||
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17-04-2022, 11:13 AM | #1395 | |||
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And they seem to make so much money they only open 6am 2pm or thereabouts. A six inch subway is $5.95/$7/95 depending on franchise and the odd bakery as opposed to a cafe will still sell sandwiches at $5.50 to $7.50. Interesting cafes charge 9 and 10 bucks for the same stuff. i get a $15 lunch allowance on the Gc working as a volunteer, my coffee is $4.20 (small) then leaves me $10.80 for food for a 9/10 hour day. Gets tricky so I m finding all the value places. |
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17-04-2022, 12:34 PM | #1396 | ||
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A good article here explaining our fuel supply issues!
https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/wh...235847262.html |
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18-04-2022, 09:51 AM | #1397 | ||
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As of yesterday our local has dropped 98 to $2.04 , 95 to $1.99 and 91 to $1.85 ... Things are looking up a bit ..
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18-04-2022, 10:15 AM | #1398 | ||
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18-04-2022, 11:22 AM | #1399 | |||
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18-04-2022, 11:48 AM | #1400 | |||
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Mind you, if cars ran on coke, we would have switched to batteries decades ago Last edited by jpd80; 18-04-2022 at 11:55 AM. |
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18-04-2022, 12:12 PM | #1401 | ||
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There’s absolutely no fuel shortages anywhere in the world yet OPEC jumps the price up
and then equally astonishingly, the price can fall 50-60 cpl in a week or so just like that. Amazing how much control oil companies have over countries and peoples lives, yet most still embrace the addiction to their products at every opportunity because the alternatives still seem nonsensical…. By the way, big oil is getting mighty ticked off with China switching to so many electrics so quickly, me thinks they see their massive sales and profits disappearing permanently……. |
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18-04-2022, 01:10 PM | #1402 | ||
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One also assumes if you buy coke 60L-100L at a time you'd probably get discounts of some form - whats a pub pay for it in syrup form?
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18-04-2022, 01:23 PM | #1403 | ||
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19-04-2022, 08:28 AM | #1406 | |||
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I think you'll find when the likes of a servo or supermarket buys crates of coke in 2 litres bottles they will still be paying more than the price per litre of petrol. Dr Terry |
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19-04-2022, 11:31 AM | #1407 | |||
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Two heavily subsidised government cafe's no wonder public servants don't eat out much. Diesel and 91 looks to be gradually falling again here.
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21-04-2022, 10:47 AM | #1408 | ||
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Honeymoon might be coming to an early end. Whilst most stations are still showing $1.5x ULP in the inner east suburbs, I did just drive past a shell that had $1.92 ULP! The next Mobil station had cars lined up.
Shell has in the past had sporadic jumps for no obvious reasons, so it could be a one off.
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21-04-2022, 11:25 AM | #1409 | ||
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21-04-2022, 01:07 PM | #1410 | |||
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Then takes months to drop that 40c/L |
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