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02-07-2021, 04:13 PM | #31 | |||
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Not sure how on earth you could conclude I was complaining about Petrol prices, when I clearly said that I was filling up on Diesel??? (And my TTG runs on LPG) And for the record, I don't dump on Electric Cars or their owners per se. I dump on those who:
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02-07-2021, 04:27 PM | #32 | |||
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Some just want a fast car without paying a penalty of fuel prices. Diesel or otherwise. Still expensive. Just clicked over 100,000 kms. In the Sprint, GTF or Mustang, that's about $25,000-$30,000 worth of fuel. Throw in servicing, the inflection point is much quicker than you think if you do the kms. Brown, black, white coal, meh, I don't really care all that much. Anyway, back on topic, how about those fuel prices! It's $1.989 near home. Sent from my Pixel 5 using Tapatalk
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02-07-2021, 04:54 PM | #33 | ||
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What is actually driving up the prices? Can't be crude? I don't recall seeing it anywhere near $2.00 during 2013 - 2014 (wasn't in the country before then till 2008 so can't comment)
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02-07-2021, 05:00 PM | #34 | |||
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02-07-2021, 06:43 PM | #35 | ||
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That. Plus all the Lockdowns, Travel restrictions & Border Closures. Fuel use has dropped considerably, Yet the Fuel Companies still have the same Fixed costs, But with less Volume to Spread those costs over, Everyone still using Fuel is being Reamed... |
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02-07-2021, 07:01 PM | #36 | ||
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Also other things have an effect on fuel prices like clouds present in the sky, full moon, Ramadan, AFL Grand Final, Tokyo Olympics, COVID, 9/11, 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, Christmas, Ned Kelly, Barnaby Joyce starting another family, clear skies, SARS, house prices, Eid, where Christine Nixon is, French submarines, bitcoin, Edmund Barton, Easter, Hillsong Church, Bill Cosby and Ebola.
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02-07-2021, 08:30 PM | #37 | |||
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03-07-2021, 04:16 PM | #38 | ||
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Who sets the prices at individual petrol stations? Do the station managers know when prices will move ahead of time, like a week in advance?
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03-07-2021, 04:18 PM | #39 | ||
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Our local servo in town is always 10-15 cents more expensive than the one in the next town along or what Melbourne is.
Its always very quick to put prices up but they don't come down real quick |
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03-07-2021, 04:29 PM | #40 | ||
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Vice versa, certain stations keep prices low and are slower to move up. Not just the indies, but even BPs and Shells. The Shell on the corner of Chapel St and Princess Hwy / Dandenong Rd is always low, and they are very slow to increase. Hence why I was curious who actually sets the price. Head office or do the station managers have some control?
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03-07-2021, 04:37 PM | #41 | |||
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So if the gate price went up since the last delivery, so did the servo's price...... fast. However if the price of the recently delivered fuel was less than the last drop, the pump price strangely takes longer to go down And I hope no one fuels up when the tanker is there
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04-07-2021, 08:11 AM | #42 | |||
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You have your truly independents and then you'll have a group of sites owned by a single business (so technically independent) and then there will be company owned sites. The big dark secret is how do they set their price. With tech new prices could just as easily be sent out in sms, email or through the POS software uplink. If a competitor down the road is making sales difficult then an individual site needs to refer back to "managers' for price support. Last week news reports came through of planned jumps to $1.75/L for 91ron. On my to work the next day, 2 7-Eleven's hit that $1.75, at one a BP diagonally opposite stayed at $1.30ish so later that evening 7-Eleven dropped back a little than price matched BP, the Liberty near Moorabbin DFO stayed low as well so the $1.75/L didn't last too long. |
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04-07-2021, 08:16 AM | #43 | |||
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04-07-2021, 09:58 AM | #44 | ||
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Nope, never, the ghost of Gaso haunts my passenger seat and always tells me to "Keep driving boy"
The old man was always red hot on that rule too.
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04-07-2021, 10:05 AM | #45 | ||
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04-07-2021, 11:41 AM | #46 | |||
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04-07-2021, 11:57 AM | #47 | ||
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Use 91, $1.32 here in country Vic.
Diesel is cheap to atm and goes further mixed 50:50. Never bothered searching around looking for cheaper fuel.
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04-07-2021, 12:20 PM | #48 | ||
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I'm in sydneys south (Good old sutherland shire), absolutely **** torn constantly, but you cross one of those bridges out of the shire the price drops like 10-15c across the board, sometimes even 20c.
I swear they're all in cahoots in the shire, when the price moves, every servo in the shire changes to the same price at the same time, then the odd group, clearly owned by a business (ie a group of 7/11's) will drop price for a day or two then go back inline with the rest of them for the cycle. The small names are generally a little cheaper but i wouldn't put their 98 through my falcon. I like heading out west to the oldies, gotta go past Costco, usually great prices and the servos all around it are always low too trying to compete
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04-07-2021, 12:26 PM | #49 | |||
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Can you run your rigs on B100 or straight WVO? Or does your biodiesel need to be mixed? Its something to do with the gel point of biodiesel being lower than petrodiesel right? Its still $1.75/L for 91 here, I bet the servo up the road in the next town is that $1.35 mark or there abouts. About all I use my local servo for is washing my car, which only happens when I fill it up, but because I haven't filled up at my local servo for a while because its been a rip off for a few months now, my car hasn't been washed for ages Last edited by Franco Cozzo; 04-07-2021 at 12:33 PM. |
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04-07-2021, 12:57 PM | #50 | |||
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Some companies make simple kits which have pre heaters (glowplug) and/or aux tanks to start on straight diesel switching over to bio when warmed. Because my trucks are all older non electronic mechanical diesels, I can not be bothered with all that. I get the canola, flaxseed, or cottonseed oil from three local cafes and blend it all together triple filtering it into a large diesel tank at home adding 10 pecent straight diesel to the final tankful and siphor it out of that. In summer I will run the engines at 10 percent diesel 90 percent veg oil (B90) Enginewise the things I've changed have been valve stem seals, any flexible fuel lines and added an extra fuel filter to each truck. SVO is easy if you run an onboard extra fine filtering system and small inline heater (just in case) I have even run the VT903 cummins on B70 and couple of times to try it out locally. Diesel intake ports, injectors and exhaust system are much cleaner.
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04-07-2021, 01:15 PM | #51 | |||
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04-07-2021, 01:36 PM | #52 | |||
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Lifes to good to be in a hurry and take it away. I believe in the Italian slow movement.....Stop in, sit down and enjoy a nice coffee, in a real cup.
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04-07-2021, 01:58 PM | #53 | ||
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Sorry off topic for everyone else.
Franco, I remember linking to a company in Melbourne who did the full kits and suitable for newer diesels on my own website here..... http://stonemasoncarver.com/files/ve...onversions.pdf Not sure if they are still going. But pretty good info regarding making it to run SVO.
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04-07-2021, 02:22 PM | #54 | |||
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04-07-2021, 02:29 PM | #55 | ||
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Nah they probably just donated $10K to both the ALP and LNP election campaigns and that got it off the agenda for both parties, usually thats how it works
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04-07-2021, 02:33 PM | #56 | |||
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05-07-2021, 07:53 PM | #57 | ||
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Lol. When the fuel tanker used to pull up at my parents servo, I used to sit up on top and watch the fuel slowly change colour as it drained down into the underground tank.
Dipping the tanks always required a steady hand or three, as you had to use a torch to see the level on the stick. Ah, the pinky magenta hues of Super, those were the days! Ed
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05-07-2021, 08:02 PM | #58 | ||
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Does anything EVER come of His Promises...
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