bbq gas

jamiel

Here a link that may help Gas.

Cheers

Richard

We have 9 kg bottles on the caravan, and the cheapest we've paid in last couple of years is $27.50 full fill. One fill at $25 was the cheapest in 2006. None of these were in remote places.

The price of gas bottles varies greatly. In Darwin, they would not fill ours as out of date. It was $55 for bottle including fill ($27.50), and $56.60 to refurbish and re-certify our bottle. Quotes for an empty new bottle en route varied from around $88 filled to $39.95 empty which we purchased - yet to get filled.

Motherhen

Gidday

gas prices in WA, both for cars and in bottles of all sizes, have been a contentious issue for some time.

There are two suppliers and as is the case with the major oil companies, their response to most queries about their pricing is to deflect the question. If you never say anything meaningful it can't be used in evidence against you.

there was even a parliamentary inquiry a year or so ago and the MPs found it impossible to penetrate the wall that these companies put up to hide what goes on.

Earlier this year car LPG was 20c a litre dearer in Perth than Melbourne but within WA it can be much much dearer, 40 to 50c a litre dearer in the Goldfields/Pilbara than in Perth!

That's one for anyone with an LPG powered 4WD to bear in mind when travelling to WA.

I will stand correcting on this but I think the price of LPG in WA is linked to some middle eastern pricing index which i also think is where the gas actually comes from. That's why it is much dearer for cars here than in victoria where the gas comes from bass straight I believe.

Apart from a small proportion for domestic and industry use, that north west shelf gas you hear about goes overseas ... gas giant woodside has said it is not feasible to produce LPG here in WA ...

Cheers

rocco

Im yet to do the big trip around but here we have swap and go
Is this system in place right around Oz or am I just lucky here in South Oz???

Swap and go is basically you just drop off your bottle take another that is full at a cost of approx $25

I've often wondered about the practice of some re-sellers when dispensing gas to fill bottles. I was always under the impression that whatever you purchased was priced on the basis of quanity (wet or dry) then it should be weighed or measured. Many years ago the re-seller would weigh your bottle before and after filling and you paid the difference between the two. Perhaps re-sellers that don't weigh the bottles are iin breach of Consumer Laws etc. Might be worth folliwing up.
Imagine the uproar if you dispensed petrol/fuel into your vehicle, with a 50 litre tank, went to pay and told o'h that's $90 (or whatever) and yet you had 40% full tank before filling and based on their assumption you finish up paying $3.00 (or whatever) per litre. They cannot do that in regard to weights and or measures.

We paid close around $38 to swap a 9kg cylinder in WA and found generally they were all much more expensive than on the east coast. We have just refilled one over the long weekend here in Ulladulla, our home town on the NSW South Coast, for $20.

Cheers,

heather