petrol prices

but you forgot to add shipping costs and GST Eric

AND the government will want its excise and GST so in the end it will cost you more.

Kind regards

I know it is getting expensive but they have to spend billions on finding it, pay wealthy Arabs obscene amounts of money, spend billions on refineries, then put it on a ship to Australia, pay the Australian government obscene amounts of money, store it safely, transport it to your local petrol station then it comes to $1.50 per litre.

Contrast this to a litre of bottled water which Coca Cola pays 0.000000003 dollars per litre for under an agreement with the Vic government, filters it, puts it in bottles worth about 8c ea, pays 10% to the government then transports it to your local store and sells it to you for $2.75 per litre.

Petrol looks amaizingly cheap when you look at it this way.

hey Tony

i am not sure why people keep on compairing petrol prices with coke ? i for one dont use 160 lts of coke a week

pmacks

Six years ago,2002, on our trip around the Western half of Australia, our cheapest fuel was 83.9 cpl, and the dearest $1.45 cpl. The average for the trip was $1.01. I'll have to save a little harder to do it again. Cheers.

Yeah, the Old Order changeth

I started organising a remote trip about a year ago. Can't remember what the price of fuel was then but I flippantly factored in $2 litre in the outback for this year. I am not far off the mark now. I fuelled up last week as the price was still a low $1.61/l for diesel. Cost $475 which is more than my fortnightly pension payment. Trip will commence soon and it remains to be seen what the fuel price will be out along the Gary Junction Road.

This going to have to be my last remote trip unless I am able to save more for future forays into the Never Never. And very soon we might have to cut down to one vehicle instead of one each.

The vicious circle of price rises and interest rate rises will have to be combatted by the Government with a rise in Social Security Payments or we will be slipping back into a Third World status slowly but surely. The rich will always be richer and the poor will be eating beans and lentils.

But it has been a good life up till now...lol


Cheers

I,ve got an idea why dont all you people who think petrol is so cheap and can obviously afford it write to the government and volunteer to pay double for your fuel to subsidise the ones who cant afford it.
My sister lives miles from any services and has four kids and a mortgage like lots of others. there is no public transport and fuel in remote areas is a necessity. She cant say "stuff we wont get fuel" but she can say "stuff it we wont get coke or bottled water"
Their mortgage might be a little lower than some city ones but at the moment they are trying to survive on 25K a year. I find the people who usually say these kind of things are the ones who can afford it or who live in the city with well paid jobs. I'm lucky I'm reasonably paid and can afford the fuel but it still annoys to pay these prices when I know that there are people who really hurt with this. I dont think petrol is cheap and I resent paying what we pay but I fully support the subsidy scheme go for it guys put in for it, petrols still cheap remember. Besides they sell spring water out my way for 25 cents a litre (bring your own bottle) which makes petrol outrageously expensive.