diesel price

Somebody, maybe even Exploroz (along with logo of course) should print stickers:

I USE DIESEL ..... & I VOTE!

Thios whole fuel pricing system is rocketing out of control.

Yeah but in NZ they still have road tax so the diesels pay extra road tax at rego time apparently.

Anyhow diesel pricing is a rip off any way you look at it Over here in Forbes the diesel is 141.9 and ULP is 132.9

Diesel has gone down 3 sents per litre and ULP by 13 CPL.

Anyhow my new vehicle is using about 2 thirds as much as the Patrol did so I'll be happy for a while.

When I bought my first diesel 4wd back when Fred Flinstone was a boy, diesel was 3c a litre cheaper than petrol. I paid $1000 more than a petrol vehicle. It didn't take me long to start saving money over the petrol.
Then the sods in the Govt said hey ! Fotty's got a dollar, can't have that. So they made it the same price. Then the oil people said hey Footys not broke yet, so they jacked it higher.

Old Chinese proverb

Many litres break Footy.

This issue must be raised here every week (see the archives) - I'm no marketer, but I'm sure professional marketers would explain that WE are the problem - we keep buying the diesel at those prices !! With the various governments not caring to do anything about it (yet), we are left with "market forces" - there is obviously no need for the sellers to drop diesel prices - there are no forces in play. Petrol is obviously different - there are so many buyers, that competition between sellers is worth the hassle for the few cents involved. Forget bulk/commercial volume diesel too - all the litres sold to large and small businesses and government utilities etc would be via a different equation to we suckers at the pump - they get rebates, mates rates, special discounts for volume etc (post purchase at the pump in many cases, I expect).... IE - we see them filling up at the same pump we use, but they are probably not paying the same price as we do.

Gday Shorty and All

This issue is really starting to get to me as well, we are still paying around $1.65 or so. A friend with a reasonably substantial farm up here and I are playing around with the biodiesel idea a bit. We don't have any worthwhile volumes of used cooking oil, so we are currently investigating producing the lot from scratch.

His farm, along with virtually all of the Ord Valley, has no cropping over the wet except the sugarcane. We are looking for an oilseed crop, preferebly a legume type which also fixes nitrogen into the soil. The main problem we have is it needs to be sown in late Nov/Dec, and harvestable as soon as the ground is dry enough to drive machinery on. We don't want it to intefere with normal farming practice (although if it is more profitable than Melons and pumpkins....)

Most high oil content crops either need a cold snap to flower etc, meaning they will intefere with the normal crops, or have a small window of harvest, may seed etc before machinery can get on the dirt. If the high diesel prices stay, Biodiesel may help put a bit of pressure on the oil companies. I know if we get somewhere with this, we will cop exises, which will go up, but its something we have to factor in with our 'fesability study'

Cheers Andrew

Nah...diesel users are generally business people ...tax deductions for fuel .. John the ..F..k.r in Canbra. knows this and says sod the diesel users who avent got a business !! Does Lindsay Fox' trucks use Unleaded Fuel !!! no way !! does he complain ?? No way ...Diesel Usrs all kis JH's arse ...so Diesel prices remain high ...AND Simple JO Aussie can get stuffed !!