Petrol pricing

[Big Shed]

The price in this part of paradise is $1.50 for diesel.
It hurts to fill up the 75 litre tank on the van

Yeah, but your full tank will take you around your paradise a couple of times.

[Bob38S]

Maryborough Qld, of course, not the "other" one, ULP 91 - $1.39.9 before discount - this afternoon.

[kiwigeo]

Oh and Kiwigeo, fuel and bottled water, one (water) is a discretionary item, the other (fuel) isn't. Bottled water is sold by many companies and varies very widely in price. Fuel is sold by only a few (very large) companies that behave like a cartel no matter what any ACCC says.

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Doesn't matter what you class bottled water as......it's a product who's price doesn't at all reflect the costs of finding the stuff and getting it into a bottle and to the market.

[doug3030]

in Darwin we are paying $1.70 a lt ,
we are closer to Singapore than east coast citys

Darwin - Singapore 3353km

Darwin - Melbourne 3140km

Darwin - Sydney 3145km

Darwin - Brisbane 2850km

These are from straight-line flight data

Of course there is always:

Darwin - Hobart 3739km but its really a south-coast city on an island so it hardly counts

[Big Shed]

Isn't competition a wonderful thing?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-1...reases/5960346

[spokeshave]

The exact same thing happened here in Wodonga.

All of the big chain petrol stations had unleaded at around $1.49 per litre.

A new Apco opened up selling at $1.29 per litre. That afternoon the big chains dropped their prices to match.

Every station in town had the prices up, so it wasn't just a matter of finding the cheapest place. Now they are all down matching the Apco.

Not surprising the Apco was doing a roaring trade!!!