O-town fuel wars!

For intrest sake when I bought the 130 3.5 years ago diesel was under $1 a litre.

In Dec 04/Jan 05 I drove to Tassie and back. I went out of my way to avoid paying over $1 per litre for petrol however I had to in rural Victoria and all over Tassie.

I have noticed diesel selling for $1.45 in Brisbane for the last few weeks. Must be a huge relief for diesel drivers from the $1.89 highs around here.

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In Dec 04/Jan 05 I drove to Tassie and back. I went out of my way to avoid paying over $1 per litre for petrol however I had to in rural Victoria and all over Tassie.

I have noticed diesel selling for $1.45 in Brisbane for the last few weeks. Must be a huge relief for diesel drivers from the $1.89 highs around here.
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Not wrong, I sold my D3 V8 at the beginning of the year for my D2 Diesel, one of the main premises being was saving on fuel by switching to diesel. What happens.....diesel goes through the roof. I was still better off but only slightly from a fuel and distance perspective as I average upto 800kms. Now I have a bigger smile...for now,

Regards

Stevo

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Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Have to agree with you there Wayne, but not being an oiler not sure of the price of diesel. What I do remember was that on the ANZAC Day Weekend 2005 I went to the LROCV S1 Gathering at Horsham and was horrified when I had to pay $1.17/litre for petrol outside Melbourne when it had been around and under the $1.00 mark everywhere else.

Diana

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You can hardly call Horsham just outside Melbourne. :eek:

It is atleast 3 hrs from Melbourne to Horsham

Be glad none of you live in Port Hedland!

Petrol today - $1.729/L
Diesel - $1.779/L

And this in the town where tankers full of the stuff dock four times a day...

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Originally Posted by stevo68

Not wrong, I sold my D3 V8 at the beginning of the year for my D2 Diesel, one of the main premises being was saving on fuel by switching to diesel. What happens.....diesel goes through the roof. I was still better off but only slightly from a fuel and distance perspective as I average upto 800kms. Now I have a bigger smile...for now,

Regards

Stevo

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had same situation myself,sold thirsty v8 rangie and replaced it with diesel datto ute for work and diesel went thru the roof,I remember once diesel used to be heaps cheeper than diesel ,oh and diesel at aratula last nite was selling at $1.38.9 per litre:)

The new United in Orange is supposed to get LPG either today or tomorrow. I am hoping that this will bring down the gas prices too.

The Lpg has been 79.9 for months at all the servos. The strange thing about this is the price in Bathurst And Dubbo (60 k's closer to Sydney and 150k's further) has always been atleast 8 c/L less than Orange so they can't blame extra cartage costs.

Looking forward to the extra competition and I will definately be buying at the united now if it drops the LPG price. Hopefully there isn't any difference in LPG quality over the different brands.
Andrew

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Originally Posted by rick130

I don't even look anymore, I just go in, fill up and write the cheque....

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I'm the same and pay what I have to pay. It doesn't hurt so bad when you don't pay attention to the price numbers ticking over really quickly.