FUEL WATCH - USE IT !!

[mightytiges]

Fill up today before the prices go up again  .

And again in the next few days

[retygas]

Petrol is $126.9 in Sunraysia now. But I once had a heated talk with my elder brother who is in Lara. And he was whinging about the price he had to pay for petrol as he had to drive to Werribee for work each day. And at that time the petrol was 10 to 15 cent cheaper than here. I told him that it was him how decided to live where he is so he should stop whinging about the price of it. So really we don't care if the petrol prices go up as now we are paying the same price as Melbourne. So we are use to paying out heaps at the bouser each time we fill up. 

[one-eyed]

$1.34 in time for Easter 

http://www.news.com.au/sundayheraldsun/story/0,21985,21482194-661,00.html

[cub]

Better fill up early today ppls - I did yesterday @ 118 - dont think that will make it past this arvo.

[one-eyed]

MOTORISTS will regularly pay $1.50 a litre for petrol within a week, experts warn, leaving cash-strapped families with less to spend on groceries, meals and travel.

The grim forecast came as the cost of crude oil hit a record $US100 a barrel yesterday.

Motoring group NRMA said motorists should prepare for a rise of between five to seven cents a litre.

"Your average is going to come up around the $1.50 mark, while in the country, you're going to see them come up to the mid-$1.50 (range), NRMA president Alan Evans said.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23004249-661,00.html

[mightytiges]

It was heading towards $100 anyway but all thanks to a couple of traders with huge egos who wanted to be the first to trade oil for $100. They traded the minimum contract just to get their 15 seconds of fame  .

[cub]

It was heading towards $100 anyway but all thanks to a couple of traders with huge egos who wanted to be the first to trade oil for $100. They traded the minimum contract just to get their 15 seconds of fame  .

And that is about what it cost me to fill up today - I use Vortex @ 1.52 it cost 94 to fill the tank 
We better find a solution to this fuel situation soon otherwise everyone will be u know 

[2JD]

MOTORISTS will regularly pay $1.50 a litre for petrol within a week, experts warn, leaving cash-strapped families with less to spend on groceries, meals and travel.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23004249-661,00.html

Speaking of cash-strapped families....i dont think there are any out my way, the store i work in beat budget by $200,000 in the week leading up to christmas and since christmas has been flat out again........where do they get the money????

[mightytiges]

Work in Toorak 2JD? 

Petrol was around 1.38-1.43 today. I filled up yesterday and then reckon I used most of it in travelling across the West Gate car park  . It was a hell of a lot quicker getting into the city going via Yarraville and Footscray Rd on the way back.

[retygas]

We were in Adelaide visiting our son who has moved over there for Xmas. On arriving there we filled up and it was $131 a litre so that wasn't to bad. Our daughter came down the next day but failed to fill up so we had to do that on our way out.
Our son said that there was a servo just a couple of turns up the road so we went into that so she coud fill up. That cost her $145 a litre, but the worse thing was about a mile or two up the road was a servo with petrol for the price we paid.
So I don't understand how they can do this. If we lived there We would have known about this I would think.
But we know if you go to Adelaide you should always fill up before getting to Elishabeth as the petrol is cheaper by far a little way out.

[2JD]

Work in Toorak 2JD? 

nope MT in the outer east  ...nicer than Tooak

[mightytiges]

Fuel keeps on going up. $1.50 now heading towards $1.60 with some even talking as much as $2 a litre    .

[Ox]

time to boycott sales of everything @ service stations other than Petrol.
Watch them squirm for change then.

[mightytiges]

How do they work the petrol price out?

Is it simply the oil price per barrel divided by 158.987 to convert to per litre then times AUD/US currency exchange rate and then you double that because of the tax and GST  .

$110.67/158.978 x 1.0725 x 2 = $1.49

The one year forecast for oil is $143 per barrel which would mean $1.94 at the bowser  . If our dollar falls against the greenback for whatever reason it'll be even worse.

[Moi]

http://motormouth.com.au/default_fl.aspx

Another petrol site