So how concerned are we with fuel prices??

Mike you right!......But the way i'm going my next trip will be enjoyed on a used postie bike with all the camping gear tied on with a ockey strap,missus included!....LOL.


Cheers Axle.

That clanging of pots and pans on the back mudguard is gonna drive you crazy! Michael

Fair enough,...have heard the cetane rating of diesel can make a difference to some engines, Nil applicable to the old landy me thinks!..lol.

Cheers.

I agree with your strategy..fuel prices are what they are & your fuel costs
are directly related to your mileage. I run an old petrol Jack for holiday purposes only..tows the van..does the 4wd stuff gives 15/20 L per 100 km. Negligible depreciation & low maintenance.
For everything else a diesel 307 Peugeot gives me 1000 Km for 50L..
Paid $14k for a car with 40k on it..someone else paid another $20k for it new.
My motoring costs are controlled by buying low k used cars that are of
proven reliability, service them well, & drive them into oblivion.
It doesn't suit everyone, but I'm unaware of a cheaper way to
control the cost of owning motor vehicles...I have practised this theory for 50 years & never had a serious breakdown, & , no, I
don't belong to a roadside assist program.
Just Lucky ?? Probably, but you make your own luck, I reckon..:))).
cheers....oldbaz.

Hello Oldbaz. Exactly so. And the other saving I forgot to mention, the LC 60 series doesn't need full comprehensive insurance.
Sooner or later fuel costs are probably going to kill our 4wd hobby. With this approach I hope to be able to continue going bush for many years yet.

I don't know how much prices might alter overnight, but using this search on fuel prices in Canada, they would seem to have much the same spread as us.
http://gasbuddy.com/Gas_Prices/Alberta/index.aspx

Of course the other thing worth noting is they may be paying the full price each and every day, at least we are getting discounting and one of the reasons prices can move by a larger amount is when the discount is either added or removed.

Take New Zealand, they will argue the same thing as Canada, very stable prices, and it is because they pay full price each and every day, no discounting...

Is this your preference?

Yep, and I remember in Arizona when they put speed cameras in (an Australian Co got the contract) and they set the threshold 10mph (about 16kph) above the speed limit, everyone refused to pay and the cameras were removed after 6 months.

Couldn't agree more!!!

Bottled water has to be the greatest con ever pulled on Australia where town water supplies are treated and tested to ensure quality.

Alan

Not in this household mate. We only use the A2 one at $5 a two litre container for full cream milk. Our choice.

But I see where you are coming from.

Phil

Rockape, a truckie I know who ran a roadtrain and had a contract with a mining contractor, used to fill his KW with the contractors fuel at midnight when he arrived at the contractors sites.
It worked good for a while - until someone added up the figures and he got caught!
Then he promptly had no lucrative trucking contract, and a reputation as a thief as well!

John, we've just come back from an overseas jaunt that we mostly organised ourselves. 2 weeks in Bali, 3 days in Istanbul and 4 weeks touring around the Greek Islands (Mykonos, Santorini, Crete, Kos, Samos and then Athens).
We spent over $15,000 in the 6 and a half weeks we were away. Around $330 a day, that covered everything - airlines, tours, ferries, 2 weeks car hire, petrol, accommodation, and all food.

It's certainly interesting seeing how the other half live. I can tell you this much - most Australians don't know how good we've got it - and I came home with a greater appreciation of our fine CLEAN beaches, our UNCROWDED country - and our CHEAP fuel!

Petrol in Greece is $2.70-$3.00 a litre - and yes, they usually have less distance to drive. However, Crete is 247 kms long and a drivers and 4WD'ers delight. You just have to watch out for those mad Cretan farmers!
They love their Jap 4WD utes (Hiluxes, Nissans and Mitsubishi's) and they put huge offset wheels on them so they stick outside the bodywork about 100mm - and then they drive like Finnish rally drivers!

After experiencing Greek roads and Greek drivers, I will never complain about idiot Aussie drivers again!
In Greece, you never drive in your allotted lane - you drive half in the emergency lane at all times.
Why? Because you'll come to a sharp curve with a permanent double white line, and as you enter the blind curve, you'll meet a tourist coach doing 90kmh - a bloke in a car doing 110kmh, overtaking the coach - and a Greek taxi overtaking the bloke doing the overtaking!!

The overtakers will be on your side of the road of course, ignoring the double white lines! Double white lines mean nothing to Greeks!
We were climbing a mountain pass once and came across a bloke whizzing down the length of the mountain, in the uphill passing lane, over the continuous double white line!!

I got my "return" on the amount I've paid for fuel over the years, by flying cut-price on Qatar Airways!
It must be great having 500 billion Petro dollars, so you can buy and fly a fleet of new aircraft around the world, that are never full!
We flew Cairo to Doha 1st class and Doha to Perth business class, for a cut-price $2000! There were NINE people on the entire Airbus from Cairo to Doha - and even from Doha to Perth, the Boeing 777 was barely 2/3rds full. In business class, there were 40 available seats, but only 7 passengers!
I can tell you this much, flying business class on Qatar beats a swag in the bush in Winter, any day! LOL