Fuel Prices

Up and down like a tarts drawers, Cliff. Overall Qld is definitely cheaper although you will find isolated pockets of good pricing around Sydney. As to the ACCC, I would'nt hold my breath waiting for any action from them.

What are they doing??? SFA.
The ACCC is an arm of the federal gov, guess whos rakeing it in with fuel taxs.
Yep the federal gov.
If they do something that will cost money and earned revenue, if they do nothing they rake in millions.
Who said you cant get something for nothing.
And as for taxes in QLD stand by for backflip beaties new round of taxs in 2 weeks time.

Cliff,

It all depends on what day it is. On Tuesday the fuel was 116cpl and on Wednesday it was 131cpl. This is at the same servo.
Diesel has stayed the same at 132cpl.
BTW the states get all the GST from the sale of fuel and the Government get 38cpl regardless of the price of fuel.

Wayne

I can't see why the govt can't cap their tax on the fuel. when it was the good old days, 75c/L they were only collecting 37.5c in tax, so imagine if they only got 37.5c at todays rate, we'd still be under $1. Other country have capped fuel tax, sure prices will fluctuate with crude oil prices, but every time the crude price goes up, so does their tax, this isn't fair. is not like we have brilliant roads because of their extra take.

can anybody explain the diesel prices. why do they rise at the same rate as ulp but then they don't fall with it or even fluctuate...? and why do we pay often higher prices for a less refined fuel?

We are all so dependant on fuel that in reality they have a monopoly and can charge what they want when they want and we have to pay or go without.

Fuel in Australia should almost be treated as an essential service and be regulated.

It makes me mad when are things like fuel in England is dearer. They have no where to drive - a tank full would allow you to circumnavigate the place while in Australia a tank full may not get you to the next town.

Our continent is so large and population so small (let's keep it that way) that public transport will always be nonsense outside of capital cities and even the people in thse cities need to get out and travel the country and they can't do that by public transport.

Fuel companies need to be taken to task for trade practices but the government is only pro big companies and big profits with total disregard to the actual welfare of most citizens.

Everytime the Australia dollar rises in value we should see a price decrease let alone the decrease in price of crude. A short while ago on ABC TV they were stating figures (which I forget) such as price of crude has decreased 10% while price at pumps decreased 5% - just more profit for capitalists

All the big companies these days are so paranoid about ever increasing profit instead of being satisfied with reasonable profit and giving service to customers instead of just shareholders.

Sorry for the rave - I just feel powerless against the large companies

Roll on electric - hybrid - hyrogen - anything to break the fuel company monopoly

Alan

I thank all for your comments.

It goes to show what our thoughts are but have we been lobbying our local politicians????
They (the local politician) will pressure cabinet if they are going to loose their seat in that great escape from reality they call parliment.

As for LPG it is exported at 3 to 5 cents per litre now the producing companies are making big dollars at that price so add another 10 cents for distrubution and that is the price we should be paying plus a little for the government coffers.
Lets keep the debate going and take it up to the steps of politicians.
Thanks
Cliff