Fuel prices

Navigator 1 - There are only two sites that I know of that record fuel prices. One is Motormouth which covers fuel prices in Brisbane, the Sunshine Coast, the Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide, Canberra, Darwin and Perth only.

MotorMouth apparently relies on members of the public to phone in prices for Eastern States sites, and does not appear to be very accurate, as fuel retailers in these States change their prices at a whim at any time.

The other site is FuelWatch, which is a W.A. Govt site that makes fuel retailers post their next-day prices on a daily basis, starting from 6:00AM on that next day.
FuelWatch results are usually available by about 2:30PM - 3:00PM each day, for the following day. You can subscribe to FuelWatch and get daily prices emailed to you.
The fuel prices posted are required to be adhered to, under threat of penalties, for the next 24hr period.

Remote areas of W.A., and the area East of Norseman to the W.A. border, are not covered by FuelWatch or any other price-watching site - and fuel prices in these areas and along this section of the Eyre Hwy are difficult to find, unless someone has travelled through recently, and posts the prices they found.

Cheers, Ron.

Rob,

About the time we are ready to head off to the other side of the country, fuel prices skyrocket! Seems to happen every time.
I don't think you will find anything on EO, apart from individual posts from people who have recently traveled along one of the routes, so maybe you will have to ask on here.

regards,
Heather

Very interested in fuel (diesel prices) out there. In 6 weeks going on a long trip towing a camper with a D4D - NSW-SA-NT-QLD-NSW.

Currently paying about $1.26-$130 for diesel in Canberra due the low fuel prices.

What prices can I expect at Broken Hill - Peterborough - Oodnadatta - Alice Springs - Tennant Creek - Mount Isa - through to Rocky?

Just indicative would be fine.

Another site you could try is www.comparethemarket.com.au

Here's a hooray for the ACCC - but I don't know if anything worthwhile will come out of the investigation.

The ACCC is going to conduct an investigation in why Darwin fuel prices are regularly around 20c higher than they reasonably should be.

I don't think you need to be Einstein to figure out why that is - the important thing is, the ACCC should have the ability to tap phone calls and uncover what is almost certainly collusive pricing in operation - and to impose fines that hurt the oil companies in a manner that stops them from trying it on, any time again in the future.

ACCC to investigate high Darwin fuel prices

Cheers, Ron.

there is a website called "COMPARE THE MARKET" which will give you prices in QLD and NSW. The price of diesel at the moment in MT ISA is $1.39