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Re: Fuel Prices vs Exchange rate, are we being ripped of
« Reply #50 on: December 22, 2015, 07:25:18 AM »
Fuel went up 30-35 cents overnight...

Does anyone know if there's a holiday coming up?
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Re: Fuel Prices vs Exchange rate, are we being ripped of
« Reply #51 on: December 22, 2015, 08:10:26 AM »
Quote from: Bird on December 22, 2015, 07:25:18 AM
Fuel went up 30-35 cents overnight...

Does anyone know if there's a holiday coming up?
Atleast your fuel was down to start with before going up, it never reached the same low price here you guys were getting. On the up side, diesel has been a steady $1.19 / ltr at my local BP servo up until a week ago, now it's $1.16 / ltr  8) At the same time i am seeing other BP servos around the area are selling it at $1.29 / ltr  :o
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Re: Fuel Prices vs Exchange rate, are we being ripped of
« Reply #52 on: December 22, 2015, 08:24:32 AM »
Are we being ripped off?
Yes.
Always have been and always will.
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Re: Fuel Prices vs Exchange rate, are we being ripped of
« Reply #53 on: December 22, 2015, 08:37:56 AM »
Fuel is still well over $1.35, I paid $1.42 last week, RACQ said last week something has to be done up here as they have never reduced the price to what the rest of the state is paying.
It can’t be collusion now could it.
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Re: Fuel Prices vs Exchange rate, are we being ripped of
« Reply #54 on: December 22, 2015, 08:43:44 AM »
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It can’t be collusion now could it.
isn't it ****ed?? Theres nothing we can do... they know it.

but they have so much power that the Gov is Shit scared to say anything..
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Re: Fuel Prices vs Exchange rate, are we being ripped of
« Reply #55 on: December 22, 2015, 09:48:25 AM »

You big sooks  ;D

I pay $2.22 per litre out here. Lucky I don't drive a lot.

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Re: Fuel Prices vs Exchange rate, are we being ripped of
« Reply #56 on: December 22, 2015, 11:08:59 AM »

 $60k for a new 4x4 - check
 $10k for all the good things to hang off it - check
 $50k for the camper with the lot - check
 $1,500 for those sexy looking Cooper AT's - check
 $20 a week for lotto - check
 $50 a week for your cappucinos - check
 $10 a week for all those subscriptions - check
 $10 a week for your tim tams - check
     etc, etc
 $100 a week to to fuel up your pride and joy to take you wherever you want to go - RIP OFFFFFF!

 We are a funny lot.
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Re: Fuel Prices vs Exchange rate, are we being ripped of
« Reply #57 on: December 22, 2015, 11:33:37 AM »
Quote from: Julian Kaye on December 22, 2015, 11:08:59 AM
$60k for a new 4x4 - check - My Nissan is turning 30 years old and I only paid $27k = less than $1000 per year.
 $10k for all the good things to hang off it - check - I made all the extras my self the winch was the most expensive part.
 $50k for the camper with the lot - check - made my camper myself
 $1,500 for those sexy looking Cooper AT's - check - my last set cost only $1000
 $20 a week for lotto - check - never buy one.
 $50 a week for your cappucinos - check - may be one a month $5
 $10 a week for all those subscriptions - check - don't have any
 $10 a week for your tim tams - check - I will give you that one ;D
     etc, etc
 $100 a week to to fuel up your pride and joy to take you wherever you want to go - RIP OFFFFFF!

 We are a funny lot. Nope, they are a rip off
« Last Edit: December 22, 2015, 11:35:24 AM by jclures »
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Re: Fuel Prices vs Exchange rate, are we being ripped of
« Reply #58 on: December 22, 2015, 12:47:02 PM »
Quote from: Julian Kaye on December 22, 2015, 11:08:59 AM
$60k for a new 4x4 - check
 $10k for all the good things to hang off it - check
 $50k for the camper with the lot - check
 $1,500 for those sexy looking Cooper AT's - check
 $20 a week for lotto - check
 $50 a week for your cappucinos - check
 $10 a week for all those subscriptions - check
 $10 a week for your tim tams - check
     etc, etc
 $100 a week to to fuel up your pride and joy to take you wherever you want to go - RIP OFFFFFF!

 We are a funny lot.

^^^^  I'LL HAVE THE SAME PAY PACKET AS HE HAS THANKS !!! ^^^^   ;D
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Re: Fuel Prices vs Exchange rate, are we being ripped of
« Reply #59 on: December 22, 2015, 01:09:13 PM »
Quote from: jclures on December 22, 2015, 11:33:37 AM


 Anyone who feels they are being ripped off should refuse to purchase the product. Who's first?
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Re: Fuel Prices vs Exchange rate, are we being ripped of
« Reply #60 on: December 22, 2015, 01:32:55 PM »
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^^^^  I'LL HAVE THE SAME PAY PACKET AS HE HAS THANKS !!! ^^^^   ;D
x eleventy..


Quote from: Julian Kaye
Anyone who feels they are being ripped off should refuse to purchase the product. Who's first?

awesome idea.. I can clearly see that'll fix things...
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Re: Fuel Prices vs Exchange rate, are we being ripped of
« Reply #61 on: December 22, 2015, 03:23:38 PM »
Quote from: Julian Kaye on December 22, 2015, 11:08:59 AM
$60k for a new 4x4 - check
 $10k for all the good things to hang off it - check
 $50k for the camper with the lot - check
 $1,500 for those sexy looking Cooper AT's - check
 $20 a week for lotto - check
 $50 a week for your cappucinos - check
 $10 a week for all those subscriptions - check
 $10 a week for your tim tams - check
     etc, etc
 $100 a week to to fuel up your pride and joy to take you wherever you want to go - RIP OFFFFFF!

 We are a funny lot.

  Not referring to me, only to illustrate a point. Seriously, complaining about fuel prices is like complaining about the weather. If it was the huge issue that some would suggest then we would all be driving around in a Prius. I'm like everyone else, it can sting when you throw eighty litres of diesel in the tank, but what's the alternative? I've just reached the point where it's wasted energy to worry about fuel prices. Rip off? Sure, but not enough to change driving habits or lifestyle.
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Re: Fuel Prices vs Exchange rate, are we being ripped of
« Reply #62 on: December 22, 2015, 03:35:02 PM »
If we weren't lazy we could do someting about it, I went in to a service station today and the
operator was complaining that sales had been very slow since the price went up, $1.10 to
a $1.35 If we got organised we could hurt them.
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Re: Fuel Prices vs Exchange rate, are we being ripped of
« Reply #63 on: December 22, 2015, 03:59:02 PM »
You blokes, really.
The fuel companies are keeping the prices up as much as possible.
First is to impress the share holders and increase the bottom line.
Second because the GOV. gets a percentage of the sales at the pumps.
The gov. prods them for a better performance, and they put the price up.
The Fuel Companies don't equate better performance with moving more product.

It's simple, we are a captive market.  We are subject to price gouging.  It's beyond doubt.
It's in the Governments (Both State and Federal) own interests to maintain a HIGH cost for fuel.
They have imposed and levied fuel so much that it's an extremely unfair tax on the general population.
If you ride on a bus, your still paying towards their fuel levies and taxes.
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Re: Fuel Prices vs Exchange rate, are we being ripped of
« Reply #64 on: December 22, 2015, 09:08:29 PM »
I complain about the weather as well. ;D
We are already bent over, it is the fact they also decide how big the ream is to be.
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Re: Fuel Prices vs Exchange rate, are we being ripped of
« Reply #65 on: December 22, 2015, 09:32:04 PM »
Quote from: HKB Electronics on December 22, 2015, 03:35:02 PM
If we weren't lazy we could do someting about it, I went in to a service station today and the
operator was complaining that sales had been very slow since the price went up, $1.10 to
a $1.35 If we got organised we could hurt them.

There've been calls over the years for people to just stop buying petrol on a certain day as a protest - think they actually even tried it once. But as most know, people would just fill up the day before, ensuring they had enough to carry them over, but it would also mean the servo's just have a bumper sales day the day before as well.

But one suggestion I read a few yr's back - and I think it would work, at least I haven't been able to see a down side...choose a brand eg: Caltex, and everyone refuses to buy from those servo's for say a week. Other servo's are getting extra sales, but there would be fear that they could be next.

But we are a lazy lot, to lazy to do anything except complain   ::)
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Re: Fuel Prices vs Exchange rate, are we being ripped of
« Reply #66 on: December 22, 2015, 10:32:02 PM »
Another way, don't buy from Company outlets.
Buy from an owner operator, if there's any left.
Company Franchise Operators get messages, straight from the Company concerned, telling them what price and when.
I know people in that situation.  I've seen it happening.
Just like BobnRob, I'm not sure it would work, but hey it's just a thought.
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Re: Fuel Prices vs Exchange rate, are we being ripped of
« Reply #67 on: December 23, 2015, 06:34:02 AM »
What does everyone actually expect Government to do about fuel prices?
They will never lower or remove their taxes, they make to much money off them.
And because fuel stations are privatly owned (or owned by corporations) Government cant exactly tell them how to run their business. Imagine the outrage if Government could tell privatly owned businesses how to operate.
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Re: Fuel Prices vs Exchange rate, are we being ripped of
« Reply #68 on: December 23, 2015, 07:46:09 AM »
Yep we are being ripped off! But what really gets my goat is when we are paying $1.34 and less than 5 ks away its $1.17.

The local servos call it the Kenmore Tax, I call it stealing!

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Re: Fuel Prices vs Exchange rate, are we being ripped of
« Reply #69 on: December 23, 2015, 09:00:45 AM »
Quote from: richee on December 23, 2015, 07:46:09 AM
Yep we are being ripped off! But what really gets my goat is when we are paying $1.34 and less than 5 ks away its $1.17.

The local servos call it the Kenmore Tax, I call it stealing!

Richard

Yep, major media dog with a bone type activity in my shire just before xmas last year about prices, the oil companies response was their standard...freight cost's make it higher.
I understand things are dearer in rural areas, but when you get the price at the start of the shire eg: $1.25, then the middle @ $1.32 - which incidently is the largest population by far, then the end @ $1.25 with no 10+ klm and return diversion off the run, then freight cost just doesn't wash...yet they're so cocky, they believe that we'll buy their BS!
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Re: Fuel Prices vs Exchange rate, are we being ripped of
« Reply #70 on: December 23, 2015, 09:09:35 AM »

Sell the car and buy a bike  ;D ;D

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Re: Fuel Prices vs Exchange rate, are we being ripped of
« Reply #71 on: December 23, 2015, 09:29:52 AM »
so they go out into the middle of the desert and drill a hole 1000's of feet down, then pump the oil 1000's of feet up to the surface into some big tanks, then pump it out of those tanks and pipe it accross a country and pump it into some other tanks, then pump it from those tanks into a big ship, then ship it half way around the world, pump it out of the big ship into more tanks, then pump it through a refinery and pump it into a truck, then truck it accross the country and pump it into some tanks in the ground, then we come along and pump it out of those tanks into our car.................

and complain because it's $1.30 a litre.....................



Milk costs $2 a litre................and all they have to do is squeeze a cows tit ?
Or even worse,water comes out of a tap...........................yet we hapily pay $3 for 600ml ?
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Re: Fuel Prices vs Exchange rate, are we being ripped of
« Reply #72 on: December 23, 2015, 08:43:10 PM »
Well cut my legs off, and call me shorty...went to my regular local servo tonight to fuel up for the trip tomorrow
Diesel is $1.19   :o  - been fluctuating between $1.30-35 for the last 6mths
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Re: Fuel Prices vs Exchange rate, are we being ripped of
« Reply #73 on: December 24, 2015, 06:59:11 AM »
I think that the fuel market became a lot less competitive after the supermarkets claimed half of the retail market. The prices used to be led by the independents. Now we have the supermarket outlets maintaining high prices and the independents trying to compete with them is a no win situation. If the supermarkets wanted to, they could drop their prices and send the independents out of business overnight, then claim the market for themselves.

Instead they have gone for the cosy option of maintaining high prices, just as they have done for groceries. Wholesale and retail margins are, as a result, at historically high levels. I have seen city fuel margins at 1-2 cents a litre during discount wars in the past. Now 10-14 cents a litre at the pump is the norm. 25 years ago, we had about 12,000 servos in Australia. How it's less than 6,000 and competition has suffered as a result.

Every year or two, we seem to have some kind of government inquiry into petrol prices. But none of them has yielded any benefit for the consumer. If you could run a car on bullShit, we'd all be traveling for free.
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Re: Fuel Prices vs Exchange rate, are we being ripped of
« Reply #74 on: December 24, 2015, 11:39:44 AM »


           Fuel at Slade Point in Mackay......  99 cents a litre

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