Diesel - NT
Submitted: Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 at 09:25
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Clint & Chell
We are leaving
Mount Isa today on our way to
Darwin over this week and was hoping for some suggestions of where to fuel up and where not to fuel up along the way.
Thanks
Chell
Reply By: MrBitchi (QLD) - Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:12
Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:12
Avoid Three Ways. He's a rip-off. Much cheaper fuel in Tennant Ck.
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Follow Up By: Member - Barry (NT) - Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:10
Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:10
Agree T/Ck is always cheaper - look around as they vary a bit
avoid Renner Springs was about $1.95 last week if I recall - Elliot was cheaper
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Follow Up By: Joe Grace Doomadgee - Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 at 14:13
Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 at 14:13
going to
Darwin or Alice ???
Tennent
Creek is going DOWN not up unless you plan to spend a lot to save very little, (i still scratch my head, sorry)
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Follow Up By: MrBitchi (QLD) - Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 at 14:27
Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 at 14:27
Only a short detour.. About 25Ks if memory serves. Last time I was up that way the price difference made it worthwhile, not to mention the poor attitude of the staff and very limited range of food etc. TC was much better.
Things may have improved in the last couple of years, but by all accounts I don't think so.
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Follow Up By: Member - Doug T (NT) - Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 at 20:22
Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 at 20:22
MrBitchi
What goes down has to go up...so it's 22Klms X 2 = 44.
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Follow Up By: MrBitchi (QLD) - Friday, Sep 17, 2010 at 07:37
Friday, Sep 17, 2010 at 07:37
Yeah Doug, I DO realise that! Based on personal experience I still think it's a worthwhile detour.
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Reply By: Member - Rick P (NT) - Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 at 16:02
Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 at 16:02
Hi Clint & Chell
Also avoid Elliot it was $1.77 a ltr for diesel last week. You are not going to get it any cheaper than Mt Isa $1.26 at Woolies and we had a 15c docket with my 2 choclate bars I paid just over the dollar a ltr for 150litres, bonus but than came the head winds across the Barkly. You win some you lose some.
Cheers
Rick P
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Reply By: Member - Norm C (QLD) - Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 at 21:33
Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 at 21:33
Fill all tanks and gerrys in Mt Isa. Cheapest fuel you will see for a while. Fill in
Camooweal ( will seem expensive - till you get up the road). Barlkey
Homestead is expensive.
Cape Crawford is expensive. Highway Inn (
Daly Waters) is expensive. In short, everything is pretty expensive till you get to
Katherine. Plan the trip to buy only what is essential between
Camooweal and
Katherine.
We now live at King Ash Bay (outside
Borroloola) and fortunately (subject to head wind), can get from here to
Camooweal without top up - put about 30 litres in there and we get to Mt Isa.
Borroloola is further from major centres than many of the highway
places, but their fuel is cheaper - go figure. I think many of the remote highway fuel
places work on the basis that (within reason) no matter what they charge, people will only fill if they need fuel and if they need fuel, they will pay a higher price -- and they are probably right in most cases.
Norm C
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Follow Up By: aka - Friday, Sep 17, 2010 at 08:54
Friday, Sep 17, 2010 at 08:54
If you are a senior the
UNITED at Tennannt
Creek will give you a discount of(3cents) if you ask
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Reply By: Member - Mark E (VIC) - Friday, Sep 17, 2010 at 18:47
Friday, Sep 17, 2010 at 18:47
Yep, avoid all those
places and watch them slowly close down and die out.
I never grizzle at the price of fuel in remote areas. It's part of the trip and I feel it would be a lot harder if these
places ceased to exist.
HTFU ;-)
Cheers,
Mark
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Follow Up By: MrBitchi (QLD) - Friday, Sep 17, 2010 at 19:07
Friday, Sep 17, 2010 at 19:07
I hardly call 24ks from Tenneant
Creek remote. Definitely not enough to justify a nearly 20% increase in fuel costs. He's simply profiteering from his location at the end of the Barkly as most people need fuel by then.
I don't mind paying extra for fuel when it's justified but this place is on the main highway and it cost no more for him to get fuel than anyone in TC.
As I said he's a rip-off and he deserves to go out of business IMO.
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