Thread: Fuel prices

Originally Posted by Disco300Tdi

Why is diesel 10 cents dearer than ULP ??

And who controls the price of diesel ??

The reason for the difference in the price of diesel is the additional fuel tax.

Supposedly because trucks use diesels and cause more damage to roads. Those light vehicles that use diesel usually use less than the equivalent petrol vehicle so the tax effect/per person is essentially the same.

In regards to overall cost when G.W. Bush (an Oil Man) became US President the cost of crude oil was $US32/barrel. After he decided to have a war in Iraq, the cost is now over $US100/barrel and G.W. is about be become an Oil Man again. In terms of the oil industry, Dubilya has been a very successful president.

Diana

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

In regards to overall cost when G.W. Bush (an Oil Man) became US President the cost of crude oil was $US32/barrel. After he decided to have a war in Iraq, the cost is now over $US100/barrel and G.W. is about be become an Oil Man again.
Diana

Hi,
Methinks a long bow to draw, after all, there was water in the Murray before G Dubbya liberated Iraq, now there is none!

I burn as much oil product as the next guy so don't consider myself a greenie or conservative. But I am now wondering how long the worlds oil supply will last. Eventually it will run out I suppose.
How will we get around then? I dunno, but maybe, just maybe, we should start to plan for it.
Unfortunately, oil is the efficient means at the moment. Pound for pound, inch for inch, a BMW is less expensive to produce than a solar panel, and lasts longer. Pound for pound, inch for inch, a battery is one of the worlds least efficient power sources.
I don't know what is coming next, but I am looking forward to it.


Cheers
Ralph

Hmmm... on the way home unleaded was 129 and diesel 157. nearly 30 c difference

price of fuel? try the change in the price of rice... now that's what every tom dick and harry is talkin about over here in Singapore!!

you guys do realise Diesel is about 30% more efficient (bang per litre) than petrol right? so a 30% price variation makes the cost of travel roughly equivalent.... and if you feel like it you can make your own at home which saves you roughly 80%...

Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

Hmmm... on the way home unleaded was 129 and diesel 157. nearly 30 c difference

I remember when I bought my disco in 2002 @ 60c/ltr I just filled up tonight at $1.57/ltr my how times have changed

I feel sorry for our kids growing up, by the time they "drive" the stupid drives through the night for breakfast somewhere else, eg interstate wont happen, trips around the country etc, wont happen.

What the heck are they going to do besides sit and play computer games???

(Ok not very enviro friendly but when a bit younger mates and I drove to Kununurra for breaky... from Darwin. WHY, because we could!)

There has been a lot spoken about a national fuel watch scheme being implemented to try and reduce the price of fuel. This is B/S and it has not controlled or reduced the price of fuel in WA as they reckon it has or will do nationally. The only thing it has helped is to limit price spikes.
The servos must publicise their prices 24hrs before and can not change them, even to make it cheaper. A servo owner in WA that decided to pass on his savings to his customers when his fuel went down was fined thousands for changing the price. If they are going to implement it it should be that prices can not be raised in that 24 hrs, but they should be allowed to reduce the prices. If it was about saving the motorist money this is the way it would be. It is really about creating another high paid government job for one of the governments cronnies. Yes I am cynical about this.

Originally Posted by Ralph1Malph

Hi,
Methinks a long bow to draw, after all, there was water in the Murray before G Dubbya liberated Iraq, now there is none! ...
...

Cheers
Ralph

Ralph

I never suggested that G Dublilya was responsible for the lack of water in the Murray (That was John Howard's fault - Just kidding).

However how come it took over 100 years for the price of oil to reach $32 barrel and in the 7 years of Dubilya's US Presidency the price of crude oil has more than tripled? The oil still comes out of the ground by the same means without any new technologies, there haven't been any oil fields drying up but there has been instability in 2 oil regions. The first because G. W. deciding the invade Iraq because of what we now know were lies and the Bush Administration knew it, but as Donald Rumsfeld was rumoured to say "That's Our Oil". The second was instability in Venezuela because the Venezuelan President wanting socialist control of it's own oil reserves which was against US and therefore Bush's interests.

There is plenty of evidence about Bush's involvement in oil, he was CEO of an oil exploration company that failed and the rest of the Bush clan, including the former President George H.H. Bush, still have major shareholdings in oil companies and are personal friends of the Saudi Royal Family and the Bin Laden Family.

It isn't a long bow at all, it is more like a dart that hits the bullseye.

Diana