Diesel availability in rural WA

We have been down the West Coast, and have been able to get petrol where ever we wanted it, so there will be diesel available.
Cheers.
Baz

G'Day Peter
Now that WA is no longer a third world country we have deisel fuel at all our road houses. There is more chance of a roadhouse not selling petrol than deisel especially in the north.
Cheers Big Nick

Thanks all,your input has been greatfully appreciated......

Hi Peter,

Diesel is available at all the places you mention, and petrol too. Sometimes in very remote areas you might find a very occasional servo that only has diesel and not petrol - Cotton Creek comes to mind. On the GRR you may find that the roadhouses run out of diesel but might still have petrol - that is because the big majority of vehicles out there are diesel.

You will have no difficulty getting fuel unless you are doing the Canning SR! We have a rule when on those long stretches to never pass a fuel outlet without topping up.

Cheers,

Val

As said fuel, especially diesel readily available, just take a fat wallet as some of the prices can be scary to say the least.
A couple of jerry cans is always a good back up plan.

as of last year we now have television as well , all be it 2 chaneels black and white only and we have to go around to the shire presidents place as he has the only 25 cm tv

Good morning Peter

Get out more is having a bit of go at you there but seriously I would like to point out that Australia is in the middle of mining boom at the moment. It has been in all the newspapers, on TV etc and it is largely based in the Pilbara. All this equipment uses diesel so one might imagine that there is a far amount of it about.

Once on the road here you will see some of the road trains carting the stuff up north.

I am having a bit of a go at you as well but it is good to ask these things even if they appear a bit silly.

Yes Peter, we have radio and television over here now also and just about everything that is available over east there although television is still black and white and only AM radio.

Hi Peter,

A few years ago when we were visiting WA, towing a caravan, we left Newman without topping up on diesel or refilling our two X 20 litre containers, thinking we would do it at the Kumarina roadhouse. We were travelling south on the Great Northern Highway.
When we got there we discovered that they had sold out of diesel and the tanker wasn't expected to be there until the evening of the next day.
We made a decision to keep going and only managed to get to the next fuel stop because we hitched a ride in the slipstream of a road train! The fuel light came on well before we arrived!
It is the only time its happened to us but taught us a valuable lesson. These days we always carry extra fuel, even if its only 10 litres, when we are travelling and re fuelling opportunities are scarce.
regards,

Heather

PeterWH,
There is a downside to diesel availability, WA has the dearest diesel in the Commonwealth thanks in part to the mining boom.
The oil companies can sell all they can make to the miners at a premium and we poor suckers on the end of the pipe pay the premium as well.
And dont start me on LPG prices....