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16-05-2022, 03:04 PM | #1471 | ||
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Had to pick my XR8 up from Dandenong South on Saturday after having the sunroof repaired. Was able to pick up 98 for 187.9 cpl at Doveton EG Fuels.
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16-05-2022, 03:31 PM | #1472 | |||
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16-05-2022, 03:42 PM | #1473 | ||
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So without the fuel excise cut, we would be around $2.50/L for 91, and somewhere around $2.70/L for 98. Reckon people will actually start to crack the sads when it hits $3. Filling up a falcon at $3 would cost ~$150
Less movement, slow down of economy, good luck to the incoming gov.
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16-05-2022, 03:46 PM | #1474 | |||
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16-05-2022, 03:58 PM | #1475 | |||
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"Need" is interesting to define though. Lets be honest, most of us can probably still live ok with petrol at $4 and lettuce at $8. We would just need to sacrifice some of the luxuries.
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16-05-2022, 04:18 PM | #1476 | |||
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Iran and Saudi Arabia both hate each other, politically we wouldn't be able to buy oil from Iran. Probably depends on what you consider 'luxuries' - if it was just maslows hierarchy of needs and you only considered the basics at the bottom of the pyramid like the physiological and safety needs then yeah we could pay $20/L for unleaded and still live fine by sacrificing the 'luxuries'. We'd have some fairly serious social problems that result from it though when people see you have something they didn't and decided to take it from you by force. We're a first world democratic nation with a good standard of living, where do you draw the line on 'luxuries'? Things that were 'luxuries' in the past probably would be considered 'essentials' in 2022 and how people would respond to having them taken away would be interesting. |
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16-05-2022, 04:51 PM | #1477 | ||
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OPEC is making it an easy decision for many to switch to Electrics or maybe hybrids…
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16-05-2022, 04:57 PM | #1478 | ||
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Filled up today, 1.88 in Wang still. 30ltrs of diesel 60 ltrs of cooking oil.
Now lets think, a country that thives on take away fried food. and something that turns diesel into a cleaner burning fuel.
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16-05-2022, 05:17 PM | #1479 | ||||
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At one point Adelaide's metro bus fleet was running on a large percentage of biodiesel in Scania Euro 5 buses and had increased performance and lower emissions using this locally produced biodiesel. Then the federal government made biodiesel an 'exciseable' fuel and killed it overnight because the price went up and everyone went back to petrodiesel, maybe worth revisiting? Quote:
I think its worth a revisit, given the current market we find ourselves in. Last edited by Franco Cozzo; 16-05-2022 at 05:24 PM. |
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16-05-2022, 05:35 PM | #1480 | |||
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16-05-2022, 05:40 PM | #1481 | |||
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We really are a stupid country abundant with sugar cane, Cotton seed and Canola. If it's volume of crop we could grow Jatropha (spelling) which can act as a hedge row and has 4 times the oil content than sunflower seed which is another great bio crop.
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16-05-2022, 05:44 PM | #1482 | |||
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Long live the mechanical injected diesels.
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16-05-2022, 05:46 PM | #1483 | ||
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Mind you it worked with Euro 5 diesel engines so go figure the stuff they were making SA must have worked with modern stuff.
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16-05-2022, 05:58 PM | #1484 | |||
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They didn't just drop down the servo looking to stick cheap fuel into their modern CR cars. I like hearing these stories about blaming the fuel and not the fools who decided to use it because they were looking for cheap.
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16-05-2022, 06:01 PM | #1485 | |||
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There's an interesting report on biodiesel production from tallow at this link:
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I went to school with a kid who was a few years younger than me who was trying to turn sawdust from a local sawmill into biodiesel, I wonder if he found any success. |
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16-05-2022, 06:12 PM | #1486 | |||
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Technically speaking even my old V8 Cummins diesel is a common rail Only difference is its a low pressure fuel rail.
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16-05-2022, 06:32 PM | #1487 | ||
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Looks like we already have a place doing it in VIC but they mostly export to the USA it seems - you'd think the media would get around this to make it known and the company spruik its wares but unless I went looking I wouldn't have found anything.
https://www.insidewaste.com.au/index...y-in-victoria/ https://justbiodiesel.com.au/ Where does a retail customer go to buy B100 at the pumps? Would be interesting experiment for anyone with an oldskool IDI diesel vehicle floating about they wouldn't mind experimenting on. Apparently beef tallow makes better biodiesel than chicken tallow, what about human tallow? |
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16-05-2022, 08:16 PM | #1488 | ||
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17-05-2022, 10:39 AM | #1489 | ||
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Well....just filled up 50L on the Falcon. Would have been $120.
Can now afford Nandos for lunch with the savings.
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17-05-2022, 01:05 PM | #1490 | |||
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Or are they just trying to cash in now as the world moves away from ICE? |
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17-05-2022, 01:46 PM | #1491 | |||
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17-05-2022, 02:50 PM | #1492 | ||
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They're just using Russia/Ukraine war as an excuse to jack up prices when really we only use about 10% of Russias oil.
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Lets hope Biden can get his WW3 going on and really f us all over real badly. It's coming ! the real pain is to come big time. so get ready. |
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18-05-2022, 02:25 PM | #1494 | |||
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If Russian oil is sanctioned, wouldn't it mean everyone has to find another source, and therefore we start to compete our other 90% with new buyers? (assuming you mean 10% is us here only). Heard the G7 now wants to form a buyers cartel to control the buy price. Good luck!
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18-05-2022, 02:26 PM | #1495 | |||
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This time no nation building - just stealing oil. |
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18-05-2022, 03:37 PM | #1496 | ||
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Just now $2.17L for 91 at BP $1.84L United across the road from it !!
I am driving my diesel less and lees these last few weeks and the GT gets 6.0L/100km's combined cycle and runs comfortably on 91 so it may be the go to ride for a while yet... |
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18-05-2022, 03:47 PM | #1497 | |||
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18-05-2022, 04:53 PM | #1498 | |||
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10% is nothing compared to the 90% left over we have on hand. |
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19-05-2022, 02:36 PM | #1499 | |||
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"BREAKING NEWS" Today the UNITED @ Merrimac is $1.75 !! |
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20-05-2022, 05:45 PM | #1500 | ||
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BIL in Seattle just told me his local petrol stations have reprogrammed their pumps to start showing double digits
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