AnswerID: 71357 Submitted: Thursday, Aug 05, 2004 at 02:48
Blaze
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Hell guys I don't believe the
feedback I get for just asking the prices of fuel at 4 towns. Of course I buy in the outback, and lets face it Leigh Creek isn't outback anymore. I have driven the SD on numerous occasions back when it was still a real adventure. Non aircon vehicles, no power steering etc. I own a small business and competition is what business has always been built on in this great country. I have travelled to every state on most of the tracks around OZ. I have filled up quite a few times at service stations only to find it cheaper 200klm's further inland, with some owners hoping weekend 4X4'ers will think it will be dearer down the track, so they buy at their pumps. I am guessing you are thinking then its a waste of time for Exploreoz to have a
fuel prices page in
on the road as no one will look. The only reason I asked is because
Oodnadatta was 3 weeks old prices at the time of asking (now current)
William creek didn't have a price and Leigh Creek was also 3 weeks behind.
Last year we paid $1.14 for diesel in
Alice Springs and 98c a litre at
William Creek, so go figure. Living a country town myself a massive 260klm's from the big smoke and paying on average 12 cents more per litre than
Adelaide I personally would love to see fuel go to say $1.05 per litre and be
Australia wide everywhere. Then some of the back packers etc that are on shoe-string budgets could work out ahead of time what it would cost them to travel anywhere.
By your statements SweatsonArmstrong you would leave on a trip up the
Oodnadatta track and stop and purchase fuel at
Hawker, Leigh Creek,
Marree,
William Creek,
Oodnadatta and Mt Dare before heading over the SD, just so you could support all the businesses out there. I have no idea under those ideals what to do at towns with 2 or more servos.
And on a final note, if fuel was $2.00 per litre at these
places, as a financially secure couple we would be still doing the trip, but the
young pensioner travelling with us in his old Tojo tray top, after having to take 3 weeks off his 2 day a week employment, probably couldn't afford it, and this is who I mainly asked for. So please remember that not everyone has an $80,000 dollar vehicle or an $800.00 per week income, some people who love this country and what it has to offer are on very tight budgets and don't want to be so irresponsible as to set off a trip like this without a enough money to do it
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