Fuel

Peter Hi,some people are not happy unless they have some thing to gripe about.But having said this i am still working & still cannot afford half the stuff some put in/on their rigs.sometimes i think about them(thingies) & having them but will i ever use them to justify there existence.To each there own though.Just my thoughts.
Cheer's Bob.

If you think fuel is dear...................

A litre of fermented sugar cane juice is over $40, and the common name for this precious fluid is rum

Panics suit newspapers and TV and radio "hosts'. It all happened in the late 70s and early 80s, and the bogeys then were nasty V8 Holdens and Falcons.

Then fuel prices went down again as they always do.

We were told there was only 30 years supply of oil left - guess how much we are told now?

LOL

Max

I will say it’s not high on my list of problems or concerns.

How I am going to be able to buy a nice house in a good Aria that is close to the city, wile still being able to do and afford the things I want and enjoy is of more concern to me at the moment.

To archive this I will probably find my-self working out on remote mine sites with-in a few years, for 10 or 15 years.

G'day Pete,,,,

If you can pick on us then that must mean you are fair game so i wont feel too bad when i say,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

You have won the 1st prize of impractical purchases......
A Jet Black Grande.... Well done mate.....

We will hard pressed to top that one.....

Well i am not worried about the price of fuel . However the shops and accommodation places on fraser island where i usually spend my holidays and spend my money might be worried .

Obviously you mob dont have to drive a 180km round trip to go to a pub other than the local!!!!!

While away I asked the owners of tourist establishments if they thought that their tourist numbers were declining due to the price of fuel. Most said yes emphatically.

However there's a difference between running around town all year and doing a one off trip occasionally. Your one off trip might be say 6K km and the average motorist would do around 20K km per year.

Fuel is a highly visible component of many budgets. If you don't believe me, ask Little Johhny, even his party machine is nervous of that one.

Unlike many European countries we just don't have the infrastructure for people to use alternative transport. Just hopping on your push-bike isn't an option for people who live away from city centres.

Mind you, there's a certain person in Sydney who should get on his bike and just keep going until he runs into a roo :))

Yes the price of fuel is of concern to me, it means that I can't travel as far and as often as I'd like to.

Hey mates here in Italy unleaded i 1.40 € /L that means 2.34 Au$/L.
So don't complain about the cost of petrol!
Cheers.

The cost of fuel is the most visible running cost to most people however i suspect that the depreciation as a result of high fuel prices will be much more than increased fuel bills.People just dont think about it until sale time,anyone noticed prices for petrol disco/cruiser/patrol lately????????

Still cheaper than water/ beer/ rum / scotch ,even cheaper than DanMurphy $1.99 red/white cleanskins !!

After reading all the replies here no wonder we get taken for a ride where ever we go. How can you compare Petrol prices from England or Italy with ours?
What is the average income of a worker in Italy? how much do people travel in England per year?
What about feeling for the family with 4 kids who might like to go to the beach and can't pay $100 to fill up the car every week.
Not everybody can buy a new 4WD every two years.
My kids are gone the house is paid off and I don't have a problem filling my cars up either but I do feel sorry for the young people who have no chance to get a deposit for the first home or get rid of the car loan while the petrol companies and banks make record profits and company directors get paid millions.
And we think that's ok ?

Reiner

Problem is with rising fuel prices, everything in sight goes up!
What gripes me is pretty well every food item has risen; OK, but goes in leaps & bounds, not just by a cent here or there.
For example, these items come to mind; one week 2lt coke on special was $1.69; next it's $1.99 (special). Lite milk was around $3.44; all of a sudden it's $4.34.
And meat is almost un-affordable; even mince in bulk $9.95kg! Sausages...! I won't go on.

But...when fuel is the basis of practically every daily commodity, we will just have to accept the fact and take the good with the bad; maybe we've had it too good for too long!

Then again, maybe some good will come of this after all...
Surveys say that on the whole Aussies are grossly over weight!
Maybe we should all walk more and eat much less.
The money saved on food can then go towards fuel!
Nope? Doesn't work like that?!

Oh well, just my 'four cents' worth...used to be 'two cents' (fuel infation!)

Well, Pete, some of us can't afford all the fancy things for the rig AND can't afford the holiday.

Wew just got back from 10wks in the Kimberley and NT most we payed was $1.98 at Drysdale Stn for ULP in late June. Never bothered about the cost cos we needed it. Mind you glad we only had a 56 litre top up there.
It amazed me the amount of people who are travelling at the moment. BTW is there anybody left in Victoria?

we have a winge at the price of fuel if I didn't get to fill the tank up in time before they put the price up, but otherwise it doesn't really bother me, yeh sure when it was a lot cheaper it was savings in the pocket, but I am not going to let them stop me from wanting to go out and do what I want to do because of the cost of fuel.
Marks work car that we retired earlier in the year ran on gas. when gas was sitting around the 30-3cents a litre last year it would cost me no more than $10 bucks to fill it up, once gas went up it would cost me anywhere from $26-$35 to fill up and that would only last half the week and we'd have to fill up again anyway.
Mark did mention whether it might be worth us making the Pajero duel fuel, don't know if we'd lose any gutz on it because we did when we ran the panel van on gas compared to fuel, and on the Paj where are they gonna fit a gas tank anyway! if they put it in the back then I lose what little room I have!

Cheers
Jo