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15-01-2022, 02:59 PM | #1141 | ||
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Damo/franco
you know that that engine will just never die. I put 20 litres of 91 in mine (LT TDCI) one day drove 200kms it stopped got a specialist diesel place to sort it out. Car still ran beautifully after that. Sold it at 278000 kms maybe I should have kept it. Sure it will still be running somewhere at 350000kms. |
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08-02-2022, 06:19 PM | #1142 | ||
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Today $136 for 74 litres of 91 RON. Ouch!
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08-02-2022, 06:27 PM | #1143 | ||
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Paid 192Cpl for BP98 last week.
Is what it is IMHO That said i drive my ute about 120km a week at best
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08-02-2022, 06:55 PM | #1144 | ||
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Best thing to do is know the average price and keep an eye out for anything cheaper when you bump into it.
Even if you cram in $15 better than getting desperate and filling the tank where it's heaps expensive. The apps are a great help in doing this. You can scan ahead your entire trip and plot where you can stop to fill. Even a saving of a few cents will add up on an empty tank. Better in your pocket then theirs.
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10-02-2022, 12:13 PM | #1145 | ||
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Well…
It had to happen. Breached the 2 bux per litre milestone and 1st ever for me. I paid 202.9c P/L for Shell V power last week ( outer east metro Melbourne ) $50.08 paid for 24.68L Happy days…..
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10-02-2022, 12:30 PM | #1146 | ||
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Almost ran up the back of someone this morning when seeing the local servo listing E10 at $1.96 and not realising the car infront of me had stopped. That is absurd. What is going on?
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10-02-2022, 02:58 PM | #1147 | ||
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Fuel crisis - there is no fuel crisis.
If the price of fuel doubles today, how much for a lettuce tomorrow? I drove through the last(real) one in the 70's, my car did 4mpg.
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10-02-2022, 05:26 PM | #1148 | |||
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Oil companies are learning that people will pay whatever it is, even if they have to cut back on discretionary travel…. |
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10-02-2022, 05:55 PM | #1149 | ||
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Shhhh you meant to complain about fuel prices in here
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10-02-2022, 05:56 PM | #1150 | ||
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The math just doesn’t add up, no matter how you spin it.
2008 the oil price was around $145 per barrel, and from memory the most I paid for fuel was $1.50 or so per litre. Today the oil price is $91, and we’re pushing $2. Even if you allow for tax increases it doesn’t come close to what the price should be. |
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10-02-2022, 06:50 PM | #1151 | ||
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It'll continue to stay high and rise. They need to look after the shareholders that may have missed their monster dividends due to the virus.
Also agree with JPD80, people will pay it, nomatter the price. It's essential! |
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10-02-2022, 11:29 PM | #1152 | ||
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LPG is cheap again with 91 around $1.90/L and LPG being around $1/L
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10-02-2022, 11:55 PM | #1153 | |||
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I suspect the Exchange rate is a Factor.. |
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11-02-2022, 08:29 AM | #1154 | ||
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11-02-2022, 02:28 PM | #1155 | |||
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If Brent was $145 we would be paying $3.60 a litre |
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11-02-2022, 11:03 PM | #1156 | ||
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12-02-2022, 10:39 AM | #1157 | ||
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Paid $2.06/L for 98
Tell ya what been wheeling the old man's Fiesta ST w/Mountune option package for the past two weeks, managed 5.9L/100km calculated manually. Usually driving my TDCI Focus as the daily, it does 5.7L/100km on the same trips with the same driver - and it makes the same torque but 59KW less power than the Fiesta ST. Diesel sucks compared to modern turbo unleaded stuff, the only time diesel makes sense is if you're doing work rather than just transporting yourself around. |
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12-02-2022, 12:59 PM | #1158 | |||
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The ACCC revealed that fuel companies actually lost $480 million in 2008, maybe the price of fuel wasn’t high enough to cover their costs when oil spiked later in the year… https://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-12-...l-accc/1183724 |
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12-02-2022, 01:37 PM | #1159 | ||
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Yesterday 91 was $180.9 ten km away in the nearest town.
The second closest town and others slightly further away was between $1.65.9 and $1.67.4. I didn't get fuel in town. |
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12-02-2022, 01:42 PM | #1160 | ||
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So driving over to my brothers place, 98 was $1.71 down my street, but $2 down his street. We live 3 suburbs away.
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13-02-2022, 01:33 AM | #1161 | ||
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Have to wonder how long this can go on for before it starts affecting the economy structurally. The government might be loving the extra tax coming in, but companies haven’t passed on their increased costs in full yet, and if
transport remains high for a long period of time, they surely will. Inflation is already higher than they thought it would be, once groceries start going higher again and rates climb at the same time, you’d have to think discretionary spending will fall. Households currently have savings from the last two years that they’re spending. Once that’s gone, where does their spending money come from? |
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13-02-2022, 03:19 AM | #1162 | |||
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13-02-2022, 04:44 PM | #1163 | |||
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13-02-2022, 07:32 PM | #1164 | ||
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We're only paying mid 1.70's P/L for diesel here in SA but at a time when they want people to help the regional economies get going its having the opposite effect as many people Im speaking to have cut right back on unnecessary travel.
I know personally having spent the working week traveling around different rural regions and having thoughts of taking the family back there on the weekends, once Friday afternoon comes around and youre looking at $60 to top up from the weeks work travel it turns you off the thought of having to do it again on Sunday should you decide to go somewhere inbetween so we just stay home or local. |
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13-02-2022, 09:41 PM | #1165 | ||
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Seeing e10 at $1.97 in sydney. Making standard unleaded $1.99
98 at $2.20+.
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14-02-2022, 08:15 AM | #1166 | |||
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The other hidden cost is what you consume in annual leave entitlements driving, because our national goat track network and its low speed limits so you end up sinking leave behind the wheel rather than at the destination. One of my colleagues is from China and lamented on our ****ty rail network, over there they have trains that do 350km/h+, she made the mistake of taking the train between Melbourne and Sydney thinking it'd only be a few hours. Last edited by Franco Cozzo; 14-02-2022 at 08:24 AM. |
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14-02-2022, 09:35 AM | #1167 | ||
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paid $109.98 52litres of 95 @ $2.07L this morn......
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14-02-2022, 10:56 AM | #1168 | ||
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17-02-2022, 06:24 AM | #1169 | ||
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The price of crude atm is @ $95 a barrel,with the dollar @ 71cents.No wonder it is so expensive.I have even seen LPG @ 109.9 per litre!
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17-02-2022, 03:43 PM | #1170 | |||
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If only I could run a business that way and get away with it! |
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