shell fuel prices

Hi All,

While on the subject of Shell Fuel Card prices, I have a Shell Card via a salary package deal with my employer and any fuel charged to the card is at the lower of list price or pump price. The list price (probably as per the web site in Steve's post) is usually about 1 or 2 cents above what you find at the pumps in metro areas. But what this means is that if you fill up at an isolated Shell you don't pay exhorbitant price!

On 16/3/2005 I filled up in metro Adelaide and paid $1.16 a litre. A week later I filled up at the Shell at Lyndhurst before heading to Innamincka on 24/3/05 and the pump price was $1.28 a litre. I was actually charged only $1.19 a litre on the shell card a month later.

In Weipa in FNQ it was $1.24 at the pump but on my shell card statement it was only $1.11 per litre. As I put in 105 litres I saved about $11.

Not only that - you get a month to pay the account! In my case it is paid direct from my pre-tax salary saving me heaps more. The employer also claims the GST as an input tax credit - another 11 or 12 cents a litre saved. This means I pay at the end of the day about 60 to 70 cents a litre for my diesel. Makes it affordable to go on more trips!

There are always downsides though
- not everywhere remote has a Shell
- some remote Shells may not accept the card ( I am yet to find one though)
- not everyone can get a Shell Card.
- you can't use Coles dockets to get 4 cents a litre discount
- a Shell Card has an admin fee of $1.50 a month

Life is not without it's problems.

Look into it - if you can salary package, or can apply for a private Shell Card (or BP card, or Caltex Card) then do the numbers. If you use lots of high priced diesel then you might make a good saving. How do you think the big trucks can afford to fill up with a thousand litres a go!

Cheers
Muddy