Our petrol is more expensive yes (Auckland especially) but our rego is a lot than Aussie mate, I can rego my ve ss for a year @ $120... I believe you’d pay 10 times that in oz?
Every state is different so it's hard to compare ... so lemme break it down for NSW, to compare to yours.
Comprehensive insurance is unrelated to registration; I doubt you've included that?
Compulsory 3rd-party
injury insurance is NOT included in rego for NSW, it is for other Oz states. That's about ~$400. This is coverage for injury to people other than the drivers of the 2 cars, and it's included in rego for other states (and was in NSW until I'd say 1990-ish).
Rego itself is ~$400.
Then there's also a minimal road-safety check, that's ~$40.
So NSW I'd say is the most expensive, and it's about $840 (
edited after addition below). So yeah, heaps more.
I pay around $1.32 for 98. It was $0.98 for a couple of months near the start of the year.
Yeah, it got that low even in Sydney (despite Sydney Tax).
Last time I bought petrol was about 3 weeks ago, I paid $1.21, which before March this year is probably where it was 15-ish years ago.
But as others have said, the variances at the moment are ridiculous, this thread yesterday had me check the NSW government fuel-watch site, and around the servo's about a 4km radius from home the prices for 98 ranged from $1.25 up to $1.76. That's a bit ridiculous!
Also Vic used to charge me $560 for a V8 ute but QLD charges $1200 rego.
Ouch, really?!
They must slam you hard for the extra cylinders up there!
And yes the fuel excise in Australia is theoretically "for roads", but it just goes into general revenue. So no guarantee it's going on roads. I guess if you were keen you could calculate road expenditure vs excise takings, but even then it would get complicated with the states probably needing to spend GST money to maintain state roads etc etc.
