WTF Fuel Price

by **Frost** » June 11th, 2008, 10:37 pm

How the **** can fuel price be "steady" (around the $130 mark, has come down from nearly $140) the aussie dollar be steady but ecomonists tip fuel price to go up another 10c.

2 weeks ago oil and the dollar were around the same (prolly bit more for oil, but aussie dollar was strong) and fuel be $1.49.

What a head ****.

by **oneredED** » June 11th, 2008, 10:41 pm

I saw two servo's today across the road from each other. One had ULP for 167.9, the other had it for 148.9....

by **67rce** » June 11th, 2008, 11:42 pm

WTF its $1.59.9 on the GC now

by **nommic** » June 12th, 2008, 12:51 am

Petrol prices at the pump always seem to be quick to go up at the slightest whiff of an increase per barrel, but then take aaages to come down.

One of my aunts is an operations manager at Exxon Mobil, I'll have to start offering to babysit her kids in exchange for free petrol.

by **Eb Barbie** » June 12th, 2008, 8:20 am

Was only like a month ago when they started a big thing on it reaching $1.50, now its in the high 1.60's and they are saying it will reach 1.70 in the next couple of weeks. Thats crazy!
I wouldnt mind if they put our pay up aswell. Everything seems to be going up except for wages :evil:

by **Malakai** » June 12th, 2008, 8:25 am

Yep I paid $1.68 for PULP last night, it was $1.55 the day before at the same servo

by **Sunboost** » June 12th, 2008, 9:04 am

Even LPG is painful @ 64cpl

by **Malakai** » June 12th, 2008, 9:28 am

I heard that it was supposed to jump up at the end of this week but I didn't listen, I just thought it was the usual chicken little cries. I should have got a full tank when I saw it for $1.55... oh well.

by **Frost** » June 12th, 2008, 12:21 pm

They rekon its cause oil reserves are low. Fucking China stealing the oil for the Oylimpics, they are stock piling it so they dont run out over the games.

Fucking gooks.

They should of listened to Buzz Light year from the future, asking the toys "Do you guys still use fossle fuel here"

by **Bipolar** » June 12th, 2008, 2:14 pm

I saw V-Power Racing for $1.70 yesterday in Brisbane. How much is it in Melbourne now?

by **donno** » June 12th, 2008, 2:31 pm

$144.7 here in Mackay. Its changed 10cpl in the past 6 months

. No weekly price cycle either.

by **ned** » June 12th, 2008, 3:07 pm

Not quite sure on the price of V-Power Racing here, but on that note... what's the quality of it where you guys are?

I had 2 mates fill up on it last week, both cars suffered strange symptoms and broke down.

V-Power Racing =

by **holmsy** » June 12th, 2008, 3:43 pm

thing i hate. they used to say the fuel costs wer goin up cause of some shit goin on in middle east. now what the **** is the excuse.
surely there is some bullshit goin on thats made it so high so quick.
was only a year ago people wer pissed off with petrol hitting $1 a litre

by **TUFED6** » June 12th, 2008, 3:59 pm

http://www.peakoil.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil

We'll definitely see this in our lifetime. Or is it happening already?

The sooner we have a national fuel watchdog the better I reckon. I'm sure price spikes are due to legitimate reasons like production problems/shortages, but at the same time I'm sure the oil companies enjoy delaying the price reductions when they can.

by **back2back** » June 12th, 2008, 6:23 pm

Yep, paid $1.659 today. Shattered. LPG FTW??

by **slo_sprint** » June 12th, 2008, 6:32 pm

Filled up the courier the other day with diesel @ $1.88 a litre, thank god for fuel cards.

by **CaRtZ** » June 12th, 2008, 6:45 pm

just to make sure everyone realise the the government takes 2 taxes, one is called GST (10%) n the other is called Fuel Excise (roughly 35%).

as if they would lower the price when they would only do themselves out money so Rudd can try to invest 30 something million dollars into camarys which will result in mass job loss!

by **CaRtZ** » June 12th, 2008, 6:46 pm

back2back wrote:Yep, paid $1.659 today. Shattered. LPG FTW??

not in a few yrs, the difference in price between the 2 is a closing gap

by **Frost** » June 12th, 2008, 9:01 pm

excise is set at 39c

wait for the olympics to be over

by **back2back** » June 12th, 2008, 9:36 pm

Roadbike FTW!

by **robert** » June 12th, 2008, 10:13 pm

$1.79 for PULP.

Bastards

by **krisisdog** » June 12th, 2008, 10:13 pm

lpg is getting a 12c (iirc) tax shortly too.

by **Bipolar** » June 12th, 2008, 11:39 pm

ned wrote:Not quite sure on the price of V-Power Racing here, but on that note... what's the quality of it where you guys are?

I had 2 mates fill up on it last week, both cars suffered strange symptoms and broke down.

V-Power Racing =

I have heard stories of poorly maintained storage facilities contributing to poor fuel quality - one had creek water getting into the fuel tanks.

V-Power Racing's been fine for me, but I haven't used it since I found out there SFA diff between it and V-Power. I think it was Gunns who started the thread on octane and it got me curious to know the difference, so I dug up some info on it and posted it there. After reading about it, it really is only good for racing and only if the car is tuned to use it.

by **Malakai** » June 13th, 2008, 7:49 am

Yep I used to use V-Power Racing now I just use V-power, back when I was using the Racing it was only available at select servos. Normal V-Power is available at any Shell servo so it's easier to get too. Makes no difference in the AIT which one I use.

Back when I had the V8 NC I was using just Optimax and then changed to whatever V-Power Racing was called before it changed names to what it is today and I was getting 450km to 500km a tank on normal Optimax and then 500km to 550km on the Racing. So the extra cost evened out in the extra distance from a tank.

by **EB Booster** » June 16th, 2008, 4:26 pm

at the end of the year they say it will hit the $2 mark its going to be at lest 130 bucks to fill right up. but in the newspaper i was reading, and they said the prices will drop back down to at lest $1.10
Well i hope they do drop to that price it would make eveyones life better

by **[Sterling]** » June 16th, 2008, 4:31 pm

i filled up for $1.71 last thursday put in 60ltrs of vortex(PULP) cost me $106. wich is shit coz i only got 398km to 60 ltrs!

by **Commando** » June 16th, 2008, 4:48 pm

And that's why I have a workcar on gas (although a company car + fuel card would be better!)

130km trips = $10

Although public transport would be cheaper. Unfortunately there's no public transport out here, you guys don't realise how lucky you are to actually have trains... Even if they are often late/cancelled.

by **[Sterling]** » June 16th, 2008, 4:59 pm

Commando wrote:And that's why I have a workcar on gas (although a company car + fuel card would be better!)

130km trips = $10

Although public transport would be cheaper. Unfortunately there's no public transport out here, you guys don't realise how lucky you are to actually have trains... Even if they are often late/cancelled.

i thought you guys still run on the horse and cart system for public transport? :lol:

by **XG95** » June 16th, 2008, 5:22 pm

Kingaroy QLD:
153.9: ULP 95
150.8: ULP 95 E10
155.6: PULP 98 E10
162.8: PULP 98
179.7: Diesel
79.2: LPG
Averaged over five servicestaions, BP, Mobil, Freedom, Shell, Caltex
I drive 50km round a day to work in hilly dirt and shitty bitumen roads.
Full tanks lasts a week if im lucky.

by **Commando** » June 16th, 2008, 6:12 pm

kester wrote:
Commando wrote:And that's why I have a workcar on gas (although a company car + fuel card would be better!)

130km trips = $10

Although public transport would be cheaper. Unfortunately there's no public transport out here, you guys don't realise how lucky you are to actually have trains... Even if they are often late/cancelled.

i thought you guys still run on the horse and cart system for public transport?

a horse and what system?

by **XG95** » June 16th, 2008, 6:34 pm

Horse that farts...

by **Frost** » June 16th, 2008, 9:09 pm

I was watching that speical on 60mins last night, the australain goverment will be trying hard to cover that up.

by **EL XR8** » June 16th, 2008, 9:33 pm

krisisdog wrote:lpg is getting a 12c (iirc) tax shortly too.

LPG is getting a tax.
But its is meant to be 2c a year capped after 6 years at a 12c increase.

by **UNEZED** » June 16th, 2008, 10:52 pm

i donno why lpg keeps goin up in price it cost nothin to produce its pumped straight out of the ground
dosnt bother me much anymore since i took gas system out

by **Frost** » June 16th, 2008, 11:14 pm

LPG is not pumped out of the ground thats natrual gas, LPG is a biproduct of fuel

by **exile** » June 17th, 2008, 9:17 pm

EB Booster wrote:at the end of the year they say it will hit the $2 mark its going to be at lest 130 bucks to fill right up. but in the newspaper i was reading, and they said the prices will drop back down to at lest $1.10
Well i hope they do drop to that price it would make eveyones life better

that would be awesome 1.10 again

boo olympics!! or whatever... i remember complaining about 74cents a litre...

by **YBYAVL** » June 18th, 2008, 12:34 pm

servos r guna start goin broke due to ppl doin fuel runners.....

fuel dusnt need to be 170 a ltr.....the goverment can hold it steady an 80c....they jus want our money....were slaves and thats the bottom line
they try to fill u with a paychek but wats the point wen the paychek dusnt cover living costs
but sum fukn polly can forward a bill to get her paychek raised to jus over 400k

fukem i say....start doin fuel runners with no plates....they wana fuk us, well fuk them....there more of us around.
the more ppl that do runners the quiker the servos will go outa busniess the quiker the goverment dusnt get money the quiker they relize, theyve fukdup an shit will get back to normal, but that will never happen coz ppl dont have the balls to steal anymore....coz its against wats moraly rong....
SO IS 170 A LITRE! THEYRE STEALING FROM US AND ITS OK!

*flips the goverment off with a nice big FUK YOU!*

they cant arrest the whole country.
but itl never happen cause ppl lik ebeing brainwashed an told wat to do
jus look at how many religious nuts we have....
its too late for anything to be done....

like i keep saying, were a communist country living in democracy clothing
u realy think ur vote counts?

were all working for the upper 1%

by **serial_fool** » June 18th, 2008, 1:30 pm

Fuel runners? Are you high mate?

How would you like it if I came up to your car and did a runner with some of your petrol? Its not even the service station's owners fault, they get like a 2 cent cut per litre...all the rest goes to Mcfucktard Rudd the Dudd and the Oil companys.

by **Gozza** » June 18th, 2008, 2:07 pm

serial_fool wrote: Mcfucktard Rudd the Dudd .

LOL

by **EL XR8** » June 18th, 2008, 2:13 pm

LOL
Ok so fuel isn't cheap.
So we go and steal it...
Lets just take that philosophy into the rest of our lives...

Pfft, go out get a decent job, if at your age, fuel is such an issue...
Or buy another smaller more efficient car first.
Yeah another $20 a tank of juice is harsh, but there's no point telling us that, everyone already knows it!
Doesn't make us sheep, or brainwashed cause we don't go and steal it. FFS

Pull your head in dude.

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