Diesel v Unleaded petrol

In Melbourne this afternoon, diesel was 10 cents a litre cheaper than petrol.

I often wonder if some people don't realy care about the price of Petrol, Last week in Mandurah WA, the BP service station which is 100metres down the road from the Caltex (Woolworths) was 20 cents (yes 20 cents) a ltr dearer and yet the bowers had cars at every one filling up.................and I have seen this happen quite a lot over the years.......

I will probably buy a petrol before Christmas Rob.
Gonna get a cab chassis hilux auto petrol.
Had enough of overpriced fuel, smelly hands at the servo, noisy motors & high service costs coupled with gutless performance.
$2000 cheaper to buy a petrol than a diesel as well & shows the same redbook depreciation as the diesel manual over the last 3 years.
Up this way (NQ) most people swear by diesel. Don't know why. Just a truck thing I guess.
Peter

Yes but prior to that diesel was a cheaper than Petrol for quite a while so it's cyclical , swings and roundabouts so to speak. Ther price of petrol and diesel plays a big part when doing long term comparisons of say a landcruiser petrol V8 vs the V8 diesel, it has often been said that it takes around 250,000kms before the Diesel gets in front of the Petrol given the $10k price hike etc etc, I'm sure that ratio changes all the time. There is no reason Diesel should be as expensive as it is, other than taxes and politics..!

Diesel in Perth and in the country areas has always been considerably more expensive then unleaded. One only has to go to the fuelwatch website to see the huge discrepancies in the price of diesel and petrol:
www.fuelwatch.wa.gov.au

I found it a bit funny that the diesel price seems to have become dearer than petrol in line with more of the car manufacturers making diesel powered cars (like Ford Focus etc).

At the moment I think we have the best of both worlds, a diesel fourby and a small cheap petrol car for the missus (me) to drive around.

In the past few weeks Sydney prices have averaged 122 for diesel whilst petrol has sung from 112c to 132c. I've been having the same thoughts myself about going back to petrol but when towing I'd be re-fuelling far more often and don't like carrying much petrol in jerries. So, will probably stay with diesel when I put my magnificient Defender up for $20,000 ;-)) and go bacik to another Disco.

You also have to take into account that diesel's will be up to 30% more economical.