Diesel price gap ‘anomaly’

What can you say Ozmik

Any opening is exploited in order to make a profit - its our way of life and to a reasonable extent businesses need it to survive.

The other day I got fuel, petrol at 99.9 cents , (using an extra 10c shopper docket).

Never thought I'd see that day again.

There seems to be a huge "anomaly" with everything related to the staples of life and living if you just happen to be someone who exists outside of a state capital city.

We cop it hard in every respect and not just by the big suppliers be that for food or fuel ~ motor vehicle and home insurance etc, just because you live above a line that appears on a map, in this case it's the 26th parallel.

Fuel prices where I live in the Pilbara are still well and truly above $1-60 per litre for diesel and the other stuff isn't far off it either, there is no public transport in my home town, the irony is there is a good public transport service net work where the fuel costs are falling the quickest and my guess is that most of the traveling will not be with public transport.

I know it sounds like a whinge, but when you live in a town and region that is feeding off the resource industry the rules change and the morals of most business's appear to slide deep into the abyss of greed.

Safe travels : Joe Fury

My latest idea is that fuel prices should be turned around. As we know capitol cities usually have the cheapest price and the drivers on average travel the least distance. Think about if the pricing was the other way. In each state the lowest price of fuel would be where it is the longest distance from a capitol city and then the capital city would be the highest. What would that achieve? People who generally drive the longest distance would pay less per litre, food would be cheaper, city people would be encouraged to use public transport and maybe even move out of the city. Just think about the change this could cause. I know it would never happen and there would obviously be obstacles. BUT???? Kevin

There is the issue of supply and demand at different times of the year for diesel. Diesel is in effect a fuel oil. In our summer (the northern hemisphere winter) there is significant increase in demand for heating oil...thus there is pressure on diesel prices here. In our summer the difference in price between petrol and diesel is the greatest (with diesel the most expensive). In the northern hemisphere summer demand subsides or is minimal for heating oil thus allowing more of the fraction to be distilled into diesel. Hence diesel price gap to petrol reduces.

You're whingeing about the diesel rort?? What about the total shaft that is LPG??
Historically, LPG has been 40% of the price of petrol. Now that petrol is around $1.10 litre, LPG is still around 80c litre!
What a total and complete rort this is!! LPG was burnt for years as a waste product!!
Every LPG installer and LPG fuel developer has effectively shut up shop, and I'm convinced this is no accident.
The fuel companies don't want any competition, and keeping the LPG price high is the way to kill it off.
Anyone who has installed an LPG conversion or bought a factory LPG vehicle in recent times, has totally wasted their money!

I remember when diesel was a hell of a lot cheaper than petrol, so did things get cold all of the sudden in another country??

Obviously they are making it so that whatever fuel you use in whichever car you drive it all adds up to about the same for the kilometres travelled.

Well thats my opinion anyway!

hi
Fuel in Townsville $1.40
Fuel is cheaper 100km away in small town yet it comes from Tsv
Fuel cost can be had Sydney $1.oo
The forcast from RACQ is fuel should be at the max 1.25
ACCC useless
Nothings changed ,no competition ,price ripoff, fat cat feeding system

swampfox