Thread: Diesel prices!

saw ulp at $1.33 & deisel at$1.69 at same garage...thats almost .34 difference

saw lpg last week at .54.9 at one garage & ,72,9at another on the same day

what if the aussie dollar was trading at around 70 cents as it was a couple of years ago instead of around 95 cents as it is today....what would the fuel price be then?

i would love to know what the large trucking companies pay for diesel as i am sure we are susidising them at the diesel bowser

cheers paul

Originally Posted by WhiteD3

Interesting story on Sunrise this AM.

GEMCO (a mining company) have a deal with a community in the NT (probably Groote Is) where the community pay 2c more a litre than the company pays.

The price on the community's pump? $1.03.

Yahoo!7 Sunrise - Home

This is what the NT News said,
Are we being taken for fuels?
ALYSSA BETTS
22May08




THE cheapest petrol in the Northern Territory -- and possibly in Australia -- is being sold in one of our most remote communities.
Groote Eylandt's petrol bowser -- out at mining company Gemco's wharf by Alyangula -- was clocking $1.03 for unleaded on the weekend and just $1.25 for diesel.
By contrast, Darwin was yesterday hitting $1.61 a litre for unleaded and $1.81 for diesel.
Shell stations at Winnellie and Berrimah were selling unleaded for $1.57, while at Nightcliff the price was $1.52.
Even in southern states petrol is going for more than $1.60 per litre. In Melbourne, the RACV reported that fuel at some service stations was selling for almost $1.63 as oil prices went through the $129 a barrel mark.
But everyone is smiling on Groote Eylandt.

Local Michael O'Keefe is just one who has been enjoying the country's cheapest fuel.
"Because of the workers being under the agreement with Gemco, one of the agreements was they could only charge two cents more than what they paid for it,'' he said.
"Everyone's basically here because of the mine. The downside is no one really drives anywhere.
"I bought a motorbike and bought a $20 fuel card in January and I have still got $8 credit on it.
"It's probably the most expensive (wholesale) fuel but it's become the cheapest.''
A common price in Alice Springs yesterday was $1.62 a litre, according to FUELtrac.
FUELtrac yesterday recorded one of the most expensive prices in the Territory at the Threeways Road House Shell, near Tennant Creek, which hit $1.90 a litre.
FUELtrac general manager Geoff Trotter said the price was "ridiculous''.
He said Darwin was clocking the highest average price out of all Australian metropolitan areas.
"The majors control the infrastructure up there,'' he said.
"There's one small independent group that has to buy from the majors through the terminal, which is controlled by the majors.''

Fuel probably goes in by barge which is not cheap. Also Katherine which is 300 kns from Darwin is at least 4 cents litre cheaper and it has cartage costs as well.