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Old 22-09-2022, 02:03 PM   #2101
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Absolutely but the thing that amazes is how many rush to defend the oil industry because a change to BEV is just too huge mentally to digest…

Which makes little New Zealand’s EV decisions so heroic, it looks a little out there but the biggest issue is that they need the vehicles to fill the gaps of the diesel commercial vehicles they’re virtually strangling….

Establishing a viable alternative to using oil products is the first step in changing the National addiction to petrol and diesel. Having a choice that doesn’t include them is not for everyone but enough can switch in city areas to make a big difference.
Exactly you know what it's like when ever there's change it takes most people time to digest it all slowly we change and eventually the truth comes out from all the spin and sales pitch then the more adventurous of us talk to the more cautious and over cautious and fears are dispelled......it's just time to over come the fear

The bit that is unknown is how long will governments let EV,s run free to (save the planet) before they start clipping the ticket (RUC etc ) and how many clips
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WTI down to $79p/b in U.S due to lower demand and possible global recession.
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Old 24-09-2022, 12:03 PM   #2103
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Ya gotta scratch ya head .. BP next door raised their 91 price to $1.98 last Wed, the United opposite is still $1.55 yet people are still buying fuel from the BP ???


I downloaded the PetroSpy app for my phone and it has been a real money saver, especially with Diesel !
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Ya gotta scratch ya head .. BP next door raised their 91 price to $1.98 last Wed, the United opposite is still $1.55 yet people are still buying fuel from the BP ???
Never underestimate the power of brand association, BP has to be better fuel than the discount stuff, right?
…….until people realise that a lot of fuel deliveries come from one or two suppliers
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I downloaded the PetroSpy app for my phone and it has been a real money saver, especially with Diesel !
This has saved me so much money over the past nine months, picked up some more $1.51 91 just before when all other servos in the area were $1.9x. That might only be 40cpl but I figure do that ten times at say, 50 litres a time and it sure adds up…

I know you’re not supposed to have Jerry cans of fuel stored at home but I bet some enterprising folks do and really take advantage of the low in the fuel cycle. I don’t do that many kms a week so get by on a tank ever two or three weeks.
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I know you’re not supposed to have Jerry cans of fuel stored at home but I bet some enterprising folks do and really take advantage of the low in the fuel cycle. I don’t do that many kms a week so get by on a tank ever two or three weeks.
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Ya gotta scratch ya head .. BP next door raised their 91 price to $1.98 last Wed, the United opposite is still $1.55 yet people are still buying fuel from the BP ???


I downloaded the PetroSpy app for my phone and it has been a real money saver, especially with Diesel !
With diesel & petrol I certainly pay that bit extra with BP over United any day as I know I will get heaps more mileage.


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Never underestimate the power of brand association, BP has to be better fuel than the discount stuff, right?
…….until people realise that a lot of fuel deliveries come from one or two suppliers

This has saved me so much money over the past nine months, picked up some more $1.51 91 just before when all other servos in the area were $1.9x. That might only be 40cpl but I figure do that ten times at say, 50 litres a time and it sure adds up…

I know you’re not supposed to have Jerry cans of fuel stored at home but I bet some enterprising folks do and really take advantage of the low in the fuel cycle. I don’t do that many kms a week so get by on a tank ever two or three weeks.
Since when you are not allowed to store fuel in Jerry cans in household premises; can you put a valid reference to this comment?
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All the fuel brands get their fuel at the same place and same tanks. But the difference is what additives are added to each brand before / during it goes into their tankers. Thats the difference.
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With diesel & petrol I certainly pay that bit extra with BP over United any day as I know I will get heaps more mileage.




Since when you are not allowed to store fuel in Jerry cans in household premises; can you put a valid reference to this comment?
First page of Google is turning up nothing, I asked about it somewhere else a while back and it was frowned upon from the insurance company if I wanted to have circa 500L of E85 sitting around my garage for convenience purposes.

Seems to be different on a state by state basis, its 5L in apartments in NSW, 20L maximum under roof of a house as well.

SA seems to say 120L on the property but not under the roof of the house - put it on the boundary fence with your neighbors
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What's China got to do with it? You want to talk about Uiger Muslims, try starting with how many the US/UK/Nato etc have murdered over the years then come back and tell us about how bad the Chinese are supposedly treating them, they sure as hell aint killing them and calling them slaves is a pretty big stretch.

As for countries invading others, the same countries that I mentioned above as killing millions of muslims have invaded far more countries and far more atrocities than the dispute currently going on in Ukraine, yeah that doesnt make it right what's happening now but it shows the double standards we have in the west, we do what we want how we want then criticize others for doing the same or anything remotely similar.

The US should be pushing for peace talks in Ukraine instead of using the puppet zelensky to send his people to their deaths as he is doing, after all, when Gorbachev broke up the soviet union part of the deal was for Nato not to expand closer to Russia, yet the US has encouraged exactly that so no surprises for Putin to take the action he has, would Biden/Trump or anyother US president sit back and allow Chinese or Russian military and missiles be based in Canada or Mexico??? NO, yet we wouldn't criticize the US for responding to that threat if it happened just as it did over the Cuban missile crisis which was presented to the west via the media as Khruschev starting it all off by sending missiles to Cuba yet that was a direct response to the US putting missiles in Italy and Turkey aimed at Russia... you start to see the pattern here???

We in the west want what others have and if others resist we impose economic sanctions, weaponising economics and if that fails then try regime change from within (see Ukraine 2014 and tried again in Syria without success) and if that doesn't work then we invade (see Iraq). We blackmail other countries to bow to our demands yet cry foul when other countries do it.
Now the US is threatening Türkiye with sanctions if it trades with Russia... more blackmail and double standards, we are through supporting biased US foreign policy, enabling the worlds biggest dictator, the US.
Wow your post has aged well hasn't it? The only country who has been sending its people to its death has been Russia which has had over 55,000 of its soldiers killed in about 7 months of its 'three day' special military operation.

Russia has been getting its *** handed to it in its ridiculous invasion of Ukraine thanks to backing of Eastern Europe, Western Europe, UK, US + Australia.

I wouldn't expect someone from New Zealand to understand the issues around China and its Uighur slave camps, given how keen NZ has been to sell out to China, if your government was smart it would realise it needs to diversify away from trade with China given the trade war they kicked off with Australia over our government asking questions about COVID.

As far as the US/UK/NATO killing muslims, maybe if you look over the past 30 years you should direct your questions at Saddam Hussein invading Kuwait, Serbia trying to exterminate Bosniaks, the Saudis who flew the planes into the twin towers and Afghanistan for harboring terrorists.

Russia took away Ukraine's independence in 1922, forcing them into the USSR after they lost the Ukraine independence war going from 1917-1922, then Russia suppressed their language and culture.

Russia also caused a massive famine in Ukraine just prior to WWII that killed 5 million Ukrainians, only after the collapse of the USSR in 1991 did they become independent again once more, where Russia immediately started interfering in their politics.

Ukraine also inherited 30% of the former USSR's nuclear weapons arsenal in 1991 when it became independent, which the US and UK agreed to support Ukraine in the event of Russian aggression on the terms that they gave up their newly acquired nuclear weapons arsenal. Its called the 'Budapest memorandum'

Russia has been interfering in Ukraine's politics post 1991 independence, all the way up until 2014 when the country got the ****s up and turfed out its government who decided to reject the EU against Ukrainians wishes to forge closer ties to Western Europe, instead getting chummy with Russia.

Then Russia immediately sends soldiers into Ukraine then annexes Crimea in a sham referendum while the US and Europe sat by and watched it happen.

As far as the US pursuing peace talks with Russia over Ukraine - Russia does not believe there is such a thing as Ukrainian language or culture, Vladimir Putin himself has even said it, for Ukrainians it is a life or death scenario if they can't defend themselves against Russia, either they fight for their country or their language, their culture and their people will be exterminated.

All the other Eastern European countries are looking at that and wondering if they're next if Ukraine capitulated.

The only reason NATO has been expanding eastwards towards Russia is all those Eastern European nations have had enough of being persecuted by Russian aggression over the last 500 years and see it as insurance and its their best insurance policy against a Russian dictator.

The biggest mistake the West has made since WWII is thinking that forging trade partnerships with dictatorships will placate them, they'll still take your money but they don't think twice about their murderous intentions, as Europe and Germany in particular is finding out about allowing themselves to rely on a dictatorship dressed up as a democracy to supply them with critical supplies like oil and gas.

If we didn't sanction Russia and support Ukraine, you bet your *** China would have made a move on Taiwan.

You think you'd have your 'Treaty of Waitangi' under Chinese rule? Maori's and European New Zealanders wouldn't even exist in the pages of history books if you fell under China's rule

I'm not sure about New Zealand, I'd still rather live under the influence of US and the UK compared to China and Russia - at least the US and UK let your elites stay in their places and they just pull the strings from behind the scenes.
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As far as the US/UK/NATO killing muslims, maybe if you look over the past 30 years you should direct your questions at Saddam Hussein invading Kuwait, Serbia trying to exterminate Bosniaks, the Saudis who flew the planes into the twin towers and Afghanistan for harboring terrorists.

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You sir definitely need to study history and the facts in all those examples.
Wrong on so many levels it is breathtaking.
The rest of your post would require pages of response to the contrary.
Russia has a dictator? Who elected King Charles?
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First page of Google is turning up nothing, I asked about it somewhere else a while back and it was frowned upon from the insurance company if I wanted to have circa 500L of E85 sitting around my garage for convenience purposes.

Seems to be different on a state by state basis, its 5L in apartments in NSW, 20L maximum under roof of a house as well.

SA seems to say 120L on the property but not under the roof of the house - put it on the boundary fence with your neighbors
Dangerous goods act will tell all the info along with each state legislation if they have variances.

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You sir definitely need to study history and the facts in all those examples.
Wrong on so many levels it is breathtaking.
The rest of your post would require pages of response to the contrary.
Russia has a dictator? Who elected King Charles?
Well you best start typing and showing examples then, and use actual references rather than youtube videos made by tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorists about how all the lizard people are calling the shots, I'm expecting the 'jet fuel don't melt steel beams' to come out

As far as Russia having a dictator, absolutely - you might want to brush up on the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis how Boris Yeltsin consolidated power in the Russian presidency and stripped the Russian parliament of all its power, paving the way for Vladimir Putin to have his vice grip control over the country.

Russia did have a democracy, for about 2 years before it died between 1991-1993. During that time the Russian president's power was limited by their parliament, who were elected by their people, it was the highest authority in Russia that could veto or pass laws, appoint governmental officials and even impeach their president - what a great start for a new country, until it turned to **** in October 1993

As far as the British royal family goes, they've got virtually no control over the UK parliament aside from a couple of conventions, so its nothing like the power that Vladimir Putin has over all levels of the Russian government or Xi Jinping over the CCCP.

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Wrong on so many levels it is breathtaking.
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Russia has a dictator? Who elected King Charles?
Give it a break King Charles is only a figure head; the prime minister and the UK government is duly elected and runs the country.

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yawn...Gough Whitlam was sacked by an unelected "figurehead"

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Well you best start typing and showing examples then,.
Why should I bother refuting liberation of mindless rhetoric?
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Burden of proof is on you.
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Thats not how this works - you're the one who is trying to refute my points.

This is the part where you go - no (here is my evidence refuting your points).

But the reason you won't is because you can't refute my points because you can't provide evidence from credible sources against anything I've said

Though I think its interesting you singled out a sole paragraph out of my entire post, why would that be?
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Wow your post has aged well hasn't it? The only country who has been sending its people to its death has been Russia which has had over 55,000 of its soldiers killed in about 7 months of its 'three day' special military operation.

Russia has been getting its *** handed to it in its ridiculous invasion of Ukraine thanks to backing of Eastern Europe, Western Europe, UK, US + Australia.

I wouldn't expect someone from New Zealand to understand the issues around China and its Uighur slave camps, given how keen NZ has been to sell out to China, if your government was smart it would realise it needs to diversify away from trade with China given the trade war they kicked off with Australia over our government asking questions about COVID.

As far as the US/UK/NATO killing muslims, maybe if you look over the past 30 years you should direct your questions at Saddam Hussein invading Kuwait, Serbia trying to exterminate Bosniaks, the Saudis who flew the planes into the twin towers and Afghanistan for harboring terrorists.

Russia took away Ukraine's independence in 1922, forcing them into the USSR after they lost the Ukraine independence war going from 1917-1922, then Russia suppressed their language and culture.

Russia also caused a massive famine in Ukraine just prior to WWII that killed 5 million Ukrainians, only after the collapse of the USSR in 1991 did they become independent again once more, where Russia immediately started interfering in their politics.

Ukraine also inherited 30% of the former USSR's nuclear weapons arsenal in 1991 when it became independent, which the US and UK agreed to support Ukraine in the event of Russian aggression on the terms that they gave up their newly acquired nuclear weapons arsenal. Its called the 'Budapest memorandum'

Russia has been interfering in Ukraine's politics post 1991 independence, all the way up until 2014 when the country got the ****s up and turfed out its government who decided to reject the EU against Ukrainians wishes to forge closer ties to Western Europe, instead getting chummy with Russia.

Then Russia immediately sends soldiers into Ukraine then annexes Crimea in a sham referendum while the US and Europe sat by and watched it happen.

As far as the US pursuing peace talks with Russia over Ukraine - Russia does not believe there is such a thing as Ukrainian language or culture, Vladimir Putin himself has even said it, for Ukrainians it is a life or death scenario if they can't defend themselves against Russia, either they fight for their country or their language, their culture and their people will be exterminated.

All the other Eastern European countries are looking at that and wondering if they're next if Ukraine capitulated.

The only reason NATO has been expanding eastwards towards Russia is all those Eastern European nations have had enough of being persecuted by Russian aggression over the last 500 years and see it as insurance and its their best insurance policy against a Russian dictator.

The biggest mistake the West has made since WWII is thinking that forging trade partnerships with dictatorships will placate them, they'll still take your money but they don't think twice about their murderous intentions, as Europe and Germany in particular is finding out about allowing themselves to rely on a dictatorship dressed up as a democracy to supply them with critical supplies like oil and gas.

If we didn't sanction Russia and support Ukraine, you bet your *** China would have made a move on Taiwan.

You think you'd have your 'Treaty of Waitangi' under Chinese rule? Maori's and European New Zealanders wouldn't even exist in the pages of history books if you fell under China's rule

I'm not sure about New Zealand, I'd still rather live under the influence of US and the UK compared to China and Russia - at least the US and UK let your elites stay in their places and they just pull the strings from behind the scenes.
Gosh, easy to see the guy who buys the BS the MSM is peddling to the gullible and just plain naive.....
If you want to believe all the propaganda coming from the western media then you go hard, just like the ghost of kiev that muppets were rallying behind a few months back, utter tripe and false hope.

No one and I mean, no one in the west or likely the east has any idea what Russia will do or the west would have anticipated the reactions of Russia to the stupid sanctions that are penalising the citizens of the west.

You should ask your mate Mike Pompeo about killing Muslims, the US killed them by the 100s of thousands in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran yet somehow those in China aren't.... only because they are safe in China and it suits the narrative of naughty China who is the bad guy....

How well all this is aging.... hmmmm lets see, Russia is still in the former Ukraine and WILL annex another 15% of it in short time, the clown Zelensky who is being directed by 'Lil Bill' to keep fighting is wasting his time as are most of the EU leaders who are also making false claims if what has happened, what will happen etc.

There have been large protests in Prague and Brussels over the cost of living, energy prices etc all as a result of the US/EUs sanctions against Russia yet none of that has been reported in the MSM as our Governments don't want that negative side of the sanctions gaining traction with the wider public. If you want to put your head in the sand or put your hands over you ears and mumble monotones when the other side of the story is being told then again, you go hard, after all, if it wasnt for muppet sheepeople those calling the shots on behalf of the big money corporations would not still be in power, geez, took the UK long enough to wake up to Bobo yet they go and put Truss in whos answer is to cut taxes.... lol, like Bobo wouldn't have tried that if it had any hope of working to arrest the UKs slide downhill?!

Not sure why you are so scared of China, seems a double standard that the US accepts the One China yet wants to see Taiwan break away whilst saying that it would be illegal for the Donbass etc to leave Ukraine.... hell the US is arming Taiwan, funny they dont want to arm the Donbass against Ukraine and its bombings.... China is not your enemy.... as Kissinger (you know who he is right?) once said, "To be an enemy of the US can be dangerous, but to be a friend can be Fatal".

My treaty you talk of.... where's the treaty for your original land owners? Oh that's right, the colonist British almost eradicated them, such nice guys the British aye, guess your just happy you weren't born as a first nation person huh.... not sure what you found funny about your comment either but hey, true colours and such aye!

Quite happy to sit back now and watch the developments as they happen for regardless of the outcome, the US empire is crumbling and the EU's peoples will wake up to having been duped eventually.
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yawn...Gough Whitlam was sacked by an unelected "figurehead"

Before you were born no doubt.
He was sacked by the governor general, because of the opposition blocked supply bills in the senate, so to break the deadlock the governor general stepped in otherwise there would be a scenario where the government was cut off from funding to pay for stuff.

But sure, lets blame the lizard people.

Australia basically determines what happens within its own borders after the Australia Act 1986, which removed the UK Parliaments powers over Australian government.

The only remnant is the Governor General who can dissolve parliament, given King Charles has just landed his first job in his 73 laps of the sun, I highly doubt he's going to start interfering in Australian politics.

Do I support the monarchy, no - but thats a bit far off the topic of how Western governments have caused their 'petrol price crisis' by overly relying on dictatorships or 'kingdoms' which is why everyone here is paying circa $2/L for 91.

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It will be a shame to close a thread that's been going for 14 years, but that's what is going to happen unless politics is left out unless it directly relates to the thread topic.
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Motorists are going to the dangerous measure of storing cheap fuel at home to help reduce bowser bill shock when prices rise.

A survey of RAA members has found one in 10 motorists not only topped up their tanks when prices bottomed out – they also filled empty 20-litre jerry cans to store at home or in the boot.

The motoring organisation asked 1401 of its members how they had coped with recent fuel price fluctuations of up to 40c a litre and found 95 per cent were concerned about prices.

“It’s certainly a safety concern that 10 per cent of motorists surveyed are filling up jerry cans with petrol, when the cycle hits its low point, to beat the price spikes,’’ RAA Future Mobility senior manager Mark Borlace said.

“Petrol is dangerous, so we’d always recommend that motorists make safe choices and ensure they use containers designed and approved for storing fuel and stow and transport these securely in their vehicle.”

Householders are legally allowed to store 120 litres of one of the most dangerous fuels – like unleaded petrol – on their properties but not under the main roof of the home.

The RAA survey found that, in the past two years, almost half of respondents (46.5 per cent) were driving less often and more than two in 10 (22.6 per cent) took shorter trips to cope with the bill shock.


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It also found fuel prices were affecting future vehicle purchases with 46.7 per cent saying they would buy the cheapest car to run.

Four out of 10 members surveyed used the traditional strategy of only topping up the tank when fuel prices were lower.

Mr Borlace said for typical households with a couple of cars “fuel was likely to be the largest energy bill in their annual budget’’.

“It’s no surprise that many people are taking steps to reduce these fuel costs, especially when prices can jump up to 30 per cent within days,’’ he said.

“The survey shows the effect of high fuel prices is wider than the hip-pocket – people are changing their lifestyles and the way they’re using transport.’’

More commonly, motorist strategies to save money include using more public transport (30.4 per cent), not using air conditioning (16.6 per cent), delaying vehicle maintenance (15 per cent), and ride sharing (5.7 per cent).

Mr Borlace said it was worrying that motorists were avoiding or delaying their car maintenance.

“It can be a false economy because if you don’t service your vehicle you may miss a problem that could go from a small bill to a big bill down the track,’’ he said.

There were 23.4 per cent of those surveyed who would now consider a hybrid vehicle option, while 16.8 per cent would look at an electric car.

When choosing where to re-fuel, fuel price was the most important factor in the survey, followed by the ability to check the fuel price before refuelling, which is now done by 44 per cent of motorists.

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Old 24-09-2022, 10:39 PM   #2122
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price of unleaded where I live is $1.54

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Noticed Broadmeadows has been $1.96/L for 91 for the past week or so but out here in regional VIC it was hovering around $1.63/L

To me it looks like the servos gone up to $1.96/L early will just keep it the same when the excise comes back in and getting in a decent profit in the last week or so while they can.

Also isn't the price of oil dropping at the moment?

Is anyone here working from home in an effort to mitigate driving? There's a huge push by commercial landlords in the city to try force everyone back to the CBD office spaces.
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Did a return trip from Toowoomba to the Gold Coast yesterday. Cheapest E10 in Toowoomba at about 12:30 this morning was 137.9, average was 153.9 along the Warrego with a few (BP) At 193.9 and very patchy on the Coast. (like 40 cent variance within 200 metres). So add 15 to 25 cents for 98 and it's starting to get pretty average again. Lucky I filled 3x20 litre drums earlier in the week.
It'competely baffling and seems to have no rhyme or reason.
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Noticed Broadmeadows has been $1.96/L for 91 for the past week or so but out here in regional VIC it was hovering around $1.63/L

To me it looks like the servos gone up to $1.96/L early will just keep it the same when the excise comes back in and getting in a decent profit in the last week or so while they can.

Also isn't the price of oil dropping at the moment?

Is anyone here working from home in an effort to mitigate driving? There's a huge push by commercial landlords in the city to try force everyone back to the CBD office spaces.
Yeah West Texas was under $90US Tapis just under $100
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Since our fuel prices are affected by the USD/AUD fluctuations it's no surprise that prices are staying high.

We were 75c against USD recently...now 65c last time I looked....that's crashing..
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Gotta wonder why some suburbs still havn't budged on price $1.55 yet the usual suspects raise theirs at the earliest opportunity every time...
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Gotta wonder why some suburbs still havn't budged on price $1.55 yet the usual suspects raise theirs at the earliest opportunity every time...
Usually with us over a line on the map where we become regional, we get stiffed, its the first to go up and the last to come down, but for some reason and only this time they haven't put them all the way up - yet.

Melbourne northern suburbs is ripping people off to the tune of 40c/L which i find interesting because its the low socioeconomic suburbs where cost of living expense increases really hurt the local population.

The two servos just off the M80 on Pascoe Vale Rd in Jacana were up at the $1.96/L mark for 91 well before everyone else did.
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Since our fuel prices are affected by the USD/AUD fluctuations it's no surprise that prices are staying high.

We were 75c against USD recently...now 65c last time I looked....that's crashing..
There’s that but the price of Asian Tapis crude is usually much higher than the the USA’s WTI.
The most infuriating thing is that inflation is being pushed by external costs beyond our borders,
the price of fuel and most imported goods is basically gouging everyone and the reserve bank’s
answer is basically jack up interests to kill our healthy economy.
I guess when you’re a hammer(RBA) with one skill (interest rates), every problem looks like a nail…
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Since our fuel prices are affected by the USD/AUD fluctuations it's no surprise that prices are staying high.

We were 75c against USD recently...now 65c last time I looked....that's crashing..
Could be worse Kiwis only 50c .......more likely the US $ is over inflated?
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