Price difference - Diesel/ULP in SA

Why have you singled out that region?
Isn't it similar nationwide?


State Diesel BIO ULP LPG
Australian Capital Territory
$1.438 N/A $1.018 $0.597
New South Wales
$1.434 $1.434 $1.091 $0.642
Northern Territory
$1.593 N/A $1.374 $0.917
Queensland
$1.327 N/A $1.021 $0.652
South Australia
$1.419 $1.419 $1.062 $0.612
Tasmania
$1.472 N/A $1.202 $0.819
Victoria
$1.405 N/A $1.080 $0.543
Western Australia
$1.502 N/A $1.197 $0.674
National Average 4 Dec 08
$1.448 $1.427 $1.130 $0.682

Information copied from the fuel prices page on this site.

Cheers
Glenn

isnt that the same all over OZ?.....:))))
and i have a diesel

I run LPG because it provides, by an HUGE margin, the cheapest cost per km.

Also gives one access to a more powerful vehicle.

Disclaimer: LPG may be expensive and/or difficult to access in remote areas.

Jim.

I used to ask why is it so ? Then I was told basically
Because the increased demand for diesel in China and India etc...home heating in the States....meant that the price remained high. (so where's the recession ?)
The ozzie dollar had fallen...(but only for diesel? Contracts are usually hedged are they not ?)
Lack of storage /refineries etc.
Price discounting for ULP (so how come it isn't for diesel?...)
Blah, blah, blah :)) (sorry Landy :)

Now I'm not going to say that some of the above isn't true....but should it add up to 40C a litre difference?

Went up to Marysville a couple of weekends ago and was surprised all the servos were at $1.41/ Lt for diesel and I filled up at the Shell just going out of Lilydale. Their price was $1.295 / Lt. They must have put the unleaded price on the diesel pump. Wasn't complaining but it was a great surprise.

Iceman

Hullo John,

I can't find the link to your travel blog on your website.

Has it changed?

cheers

JQ,
Much the same at home eh.
Max we paid on a recent run was $2.64 @ Warburton. No wonder their bowsers are encased in mesh, coupled with a "no photos" warning.
I accept all that.Remote is remote: get used to it.

But it really does cheese me off that the Qld fuel subsidy seems so amazingly malleable around the border regions.

In Bundy at the moment we enjoy about 30c penalty for diesel.
May those who set these prices enjoy their afterlife with the esteemed GWB (Jnr).
jh.

Over here ULP is 88.9p and Diesel is 102.9p.
Wonder why the difference is less here?

Cheers,
Dennis

Based on the current fuel price differences I wouldn't buy another diesel. At the moment it's cheaper to run my V8 AWD wagon than my Toyota 4Runner.

Toyota 2.8D - 750km @ $130 = $0.173 / km

Holden 5.7L - 520km @ $75 = $0.144 / km

There's no fuel competition where I live so the prices don't drop like in the city. I told my daughter to get petrol when she drives to school in town. She gets a bit more for her $30 a week as the price difference has been around 8 - 14 cents a litre.

Louie

John
Spoken to an ex-Petrol Company Manager (cousin) yesterday, and he said, unofficially of course, that the Companies have got together, and set the prices off the Malaysian Market.

Right or wrong, who knows, ????
Is he thowing me a story, who cares !
BUT.......... I too have an opinion on this !.

The old "cartel" syndrome.
Problem is that the majority of vehicles in Oz are petrol, and that side of things are regulated. So to keep the "tooth-less tiger", the ACCC, off their backs, they drop petrol prices, and come up with some crap about diesel.

All about profit, mate, loose it here, make it there !
And the "tooth-less tiger" is seemed to roar, for 80% of the population anyway.

Cheers
Bucky

Quote: "Obviously those with diesel vehicles are being got at. "

That'd be me then, I reckon.....I live in the area you mention (Kadina, 17 klm from Moonta and 50 klm from Pt Wakefield).

It sure does p!ss me off that diesel is sooooo expensive by comparison. When the price of oil is now down in the $40-/barrell range, I would love to have the stats on what the diesel price/litre was when oil used to be that price previously. Admittedly, the A$ has slumped as well, but even so, there is a giant rip-off being made somewhere.

I'm surprised the powerful trucking companies and railways etc (ie: the major users of diesel fuel), haven't chucked a spazzo fit with the oil companies and MADE them drop their prices. You would think they would have a fair amount of clout, wouldn't you??? Maybe they're not too worries, cos they just pass the higher prices on to their clients; who in turn pass it on to the consumer (you and me).