Price of petrol

[satos]

Driving past a mobil qix servo in melbourne today,the price of ulp was $1.44 a litre.This was the highest price of petrol I have ever seen.The way things are going it could reach $1.80 by xmas.These oil companies should be held liable they are just plainly ripping us off and the government is doing **** all about it.

[minux]

Driving past a mobil qix servo in melbourne today,the price of ulp was $1.44 a litre.This was the highest price of petrol I have ever seen.The way things are going it could reach $1.80 by xmas.These oil companies should be held liable they are just plainly ripping us off and the government is doing **** all about it.

Thats because the higher the price of fuel is the more cash the government get, why would they do anything about it?

[dinodog]

In nz we are paying $1.70 a lt for 91 and 1.85 for 96 then 1.95 for 98 now and they reckon that it will be $2.00 for 91 by xmas, we are paying 0.60 in tax on gas it sucks.Wont be long before the big red SS is sitting in the shed doing s...t.

[Darren]

I was going to fill up on the way home yesterday but when I saw 1.44 for unleaded and I use BP Ultimate I thought forget that idea I'll just wait until next week.

It's getting to a point where I'm really having to think about where I go, not that I go out a huge amount as it is.

I really feel for the likes of people who commute everyday or who are already on the edge, no matter what way you look at it the government is rubbing their hands together with glee, lets not forget to mention everything else ie food, plane tickets etc will go up as a result.

It would be very nice if our wages would go up to compensate the rising fuel prices but that's rather unlikely to happen.

I hate to say it but I doubt very much my next car will be a Commodore unless it's diesel, I might even have to get a bike, geez now that's a very scary thought.

[MYSS94]

Yeah, it's a little ridiculous!

However, i love my v8 commies too much to just stop driving 'em!
A small car would be sensible - but i love my commodores too much!!!

[grigor]

Have you checked the price of diesel lately? It's absolutely gone through the roof.
It will go much higher as buyers opt for the new generation of light weight high power turbo diesels from Europe, and demand for distillate increases.
Same story as LPG a few years back.

[Jecs]

lets not forget to mention everything else ie food, plane tickets etc will go up as a result..

on the radio this morning they said Jetstar and Qantes have jacked up the price of plane tickets.

i think i might buy a postie bike CT110 and drive that to work

[jack.mc]

If the government remove the petrol tax, you will not see an extra cent. They'll just tax you somewhere else...

[1vngal]

ULP hit $1.40 here yesterday, highest it's been in a long time. Jumped up really quick too. It was a $1.29 about 2 weeks ago. Is it true the QLD government has a subsidary or something like that, that keeps ULP around the $1.17 mark?

[yosy]

I surpose if every one went to the servo with a lighter and spewd it all over the servo and lit it up every day then i guess they would lower the price or at the verry least we need a pact that no one pay for it but we need people with nuts thatl do it just go to the servo and fill up if the atendent wont let you then no offence to the console operator but were takin your bosses shit
be a man and let it happen
I may quit my job and go work as a console operator and for a whole shift until i get shut down ill give away free juice
lets get an army of console operators in every staqte to join a petrol malicha
and if enough do it same time every state it will make a rucus FVCK OPEC AND BP ALIKE

blame little gay jonnie removed offensive words
nufff said

[yosy]

Or you could change the converter in your gas system to hydrogen not lpg and invest in a few rain water tanks and a few other little doova lackies and a cng pump and you could be driving around for the cost of the electricity to run the pump
ofcorse all your electricity would be commoing from your converted buried genset anyway

[Spyper]

I know a guy at my local servo.. if a car does a runner and they can't report the License plate.. it comes out of their wages.. who they gonna complain to? The price IS ridiculous.. but then again our country voted for the government that went to 'war' with iraq in order to dictate the price of oil (my opinion, let's not take this to a war debate). BUT, prices are cruel atm. The highest prices occur wednesday/thursday now. Fill up on Sunday or Monday, that's when they're at their lowest nowadays. Supply/Demand on wednesdays is what's getting us. Jack the prices when everyone expects cheap fuel and drives to red-line to wait for.

[Demons1964]

I really feel for the likes of people who commute everyday.

That would be me .

I do about 25,000km a year, my wife does the same. We both drive V8's. At $1.45 per litre that equals $6000 a year on fuel alone. We're fortunate that we're both on good money and it doesn't affect us too much (when it's $2.50/litre that might be different!!), but I do feel for the people that live week to week where fuel is a major chunk of their wages. I remember struggling as a student when petrol was $0.70/litre. How do people in that situation cope now?

When petrol hit $1.20 per litre I pulled out the 185kW memcal from my wife's car and put in the standard one to save a bit of fuel (approx 10%). Her tantrum at that time had to be seen to be believed!! I'm not even going to consider asking her to drive a V6 or *gulp* a 4 cylinder.

[yosy]

your right so the servos better choose their employees carfully as if your there to give juice away then id imagine the wage dont mean didly do suicide bombers cry that people they kill or mame are going to raid their wallet

people need to band together and create a network or milita group like in iraq just use differnt methods not killing or hurting ofcorse
imagine you could get every single console operator of a good 80 percent in your group much like a religion and at a set time millions of litres of fuel diappear into the tanks of many people
sure you would get the sack but shit happens hey

its that or the ifrastructure for hydrogen must be created and put into affect slowly get bigger until noone buys fuel

[jack.mc]

I'm a student, I earn a modes wage working weekends, and generally fill up every 2 weeks (on tuesdays). Petrol takes up over 10% of my income

[TI0350]

The Government should be pressured to drop the GST I feel its illegal anyway charging a tax on a tax but they get away with it by calling it excise..
If you take away the GST fuel would drop from 1.40 to 1.26 straight away thats a bloody big difference.. It's not like the Government uses all the fuel tax they takes to fix roads and other stuff like that they use it to prop up the budget to make themselves look good, they give a shit what price petrol is they all drive around in com cars and dont pay for it out their own pocket..

[Lost_Pete]

In the UK the cost of ULP is 94p ($2.20) a litre.

But BP is testing BP Ultimate 102 at GBP2.42 ($5.76) a litre.

Quote:
BP have released their Ultimate 102 Unleaded high-performance petrol onto several testing forecourts in the UK.

The revolutionary high-octane fuel is designed specifically for motor sport enthusiasts and is a dream come true for a tuned engine. It meets the same high spec of fuels used in F1 racing and the World Rally Championships.

It gets its name from its octane number of 102 and was designed to allow highly tuned engines to perform at their best. It also fully complies with BS:EN228 which is the UK specification for unleaded petrol - meaning it can be used legally on the road.

The exclusive fuel is ´hand made´ in small batches at BP´s speciality fuels technology centre in the UK.

BP Ultimate 102 unleaded is currently under trial at 6 sites across the UK, adding another 3 in June. If demand for the fuel is strong, BP will consider making it more widely available. A specialist fuel, the cost is £2.42 a litre but BP are confident that the motor sport enthusiasts this fuel is aimed at will welcome the chance to buy fuel of this type.

[MasterOfReality]

Yeah but the UK has a shitload more tax on their petrol than us.

I'm a uni student and drive a V8 everyday. It costs me about $40 a week to drive to uni and back (7km round trip per day).

I think I might walk a lot more soon.

[Troy711]

what pisses me off is that the cost of living goes up but wages dont go up. cos im a subbie and i work out of town a fair bit i have to travel... and do you think my rates go up? hell no... sometimes i work to drive to work... its a joke!

[Bec]

Is it true the QLD government has a subsidary or something like that, that keeps ULP around the $1.17 mark?

They do, I think it's about 8c.

Current price in Bris is 136c today. 12c jump from yesterday.

I can see myself driving less and less. My first 3 years of driving I was doing 100,000k's a year, now I've dropped it to about 60,000. Hate to think how much money they get from little old me

*looks around for my old bmx.....*

[mattman]

Saw $1.40 in Adelaide last night on the way home... I think at the moment it's just people cashing in on end of week too... should be better tuesday morning.

Soooooo glad i bus it to work... 60km round trip in a super6... i don't think so lol.

[Shounak]

your right so the servos better choose their employees carfully as if your there to give juice away then id imagine the wage dont mean didly do suicide bombers cry that people they kill or mame are going to raid their wallet

people need to band together and create a network or milita group like in iraq just use differnt methods not killing or hurting ofcorse
imagine you could get every single console operator of a good 80 percent in your group much like a religion and at a set time millions of litres of fuel diappear into the tanks of many people
sure you would get the sack but shit happens hey

its that or the ifrastructure for hydrogen must be created and put into affect slowly get bigger until noone buys fuel

You are an idiot. I work in a servo.. A Safeway/Caltex.. I get the same 4 cent discount everyone else gets.

I get paid $15.20 an hour.. I'm not going to lose my job (which means my car, credit cards, lifestyle), just so people can get a few litres of free petrol. I myself get no free petrol..

You seriously think giving away free petrol for a day will do anything? If you start a militia, to get free petrol. What you're doing is no better then armed robbery.. Why not just do that?

Also, servo's make next to nothing on petrol. It's about 1-2 cents a litre, and we somtimes sell it at a loss, just to get sales.. The money comes from selling every non-fuel item in the store at 25% greater then retail..

I would think you're joking with your post. But having seen the poor grammar and spelling, I don't doubt for a second that you're being serious..

[yosy]

I would think you're joking with your post. But having seen the poor grammar and spelling, I don't doubt for a second that you're being serious..

yes cors im serious il quit my job and finance the whole operation i will spend 100s of thousands on mail outs and do lots of fund raising then ill go and get a job at a servo myself
yep damn strait il do it , well except the work at the servo bit
as for my punctuation and spelling its more lazzy i take long enough finding the letters to bother with shift key little tittle symbols
i really gotta spend more time on typing tutor :b:

[jimiemick]

Im happy to see gas is down a lil bit tonight about 43clt so i really should have filled up but ohhh well
I do on average about 700k's a week and im surly glad that i have my daily ( VR berlina on gas ) and not having to drive the clubby every where...

when gas is 20c difference between it and petrol then i wont have a converted car untill then ill be sticking with a daily and my weekender

[MOTIV8]

Compared to some countries around the world Australia has quite reasonable and sometimes cheap fuel.

Today I walked to the local shops which are a 3 to 5 minute walk depending on how many times the dog needs to piss.

The neighbours from 2 doors down passes me as I just left my place and due to a couple of customers in the bakery he and her are just getting served as I get there. They then get in their car and drive (I'm not kidding), 10 to 15 metres down the carpark to the little supermarket/bottlo.

By this time I have purchased my bread and walked down to the bottlo and they only just beat me in the door. I beat them to the checkout and was 3/4 the way home before they passed me.

It wouldn't surprise me if they walked out of their front door hopped in their car and drove 5 metres to their letterbox to check the mail.

My point is that if people stopped and thought about their trips a bit more maybe they would find that they don't need to use the car as often and maybe even save some money.

Now I know that some people need to commute to work etc but driving a gas guzzler and then complaing about the price of fuel is a bit much.

It does cost money to find the oil, drill wells, pump it out of the ground, store it, then load it into tankers, transport it to refineries, refine it, transport it again to selling points.

Then of course there is the demand, Chinas economy is booming and they want as much oil as they can get. They will pay a premium to get it and that means that everyone else has to match or beat that price. Couple that with the fact that known oil reserves have or are going to peak soon means that oil is getting rarer. The rarer something is the more it is going to be worth.