Have you noticed fuel prices going up

[T1 Terry]

It's around 91 is $1.86.9 and diesel $1.95.9, but both 95 and 98 are well over $2 ltr.
In Adelaide, the price for 91 is over $2 already caused by panic buying .... Back in Lake Illawarra, the 7/11 is selling E10 for $2.17ltr yet they are still panic buying filling up anything and everything to stockpile fuel ..... so the house fires down that way will be quite spectacular ....

T1 Terry

Well, 91 (base level petrol here) went from $1.869 to $2.139 sometime yesterday .... everyone used up their fuel in their wake boats and had to refill, and they have to tow them back home today .... sneaky, lull them into a false sense of fuel price security, then cash in when they have no choice but to pay what they are demanding ......

T1 Terry

 

[T1 Terry]

I remember when petrol was less than £1 per gallon.

This one belongs in the "What makes you feel old" thread

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[T1 Terry]

when I started it was 33p a gallon.

Where abouts in the horse did you pour that in?

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[T1 Terry]

I'll give you confusing..... we are putting in a new kitchen and thought we would have an epoxy resin worktop. Trying to price up and get a per metre coverage against thickness, some manufacturers give you kg per metre but sell it in litres, some ounces per sq ft and sell it in pounds and or gallons not mentioning whether its an English gallon or an American gallon, they are not the same! Then after converting and working out a volume/ weight amount ..... they won't ship to France.

Glad to see we aren't alone in being one of those places that aren't in the USA so they won't ship to us .... or if they do, there is a US GST charged on the goods and then the freight, then the conversion factor from the local currency to the US$$ is at the conversion rate when the USD was worth more than toilet paper ..... to add salt to the wound, here in Australia, the calculate the whole cost in AU$$ and add 10%, just to land it at the airport (we won't go into getting it onto the dock if it came by ship) then, we have to pay in AU$$ to get it transported from what ever airport it arrive to the home address
The item for our motorhome from suspension has been doing an all stops tour of the USA for the last 32 days, it hasn't even left the US yet ..... but I had to pay all these additional cost before it even left the original address ......
I think I might need another coffee and lie down

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[T1 Terry]

I'm not a fan of l/100km, km/l makes more sense to me.

And convention can play havoc with common sense."Like buying in liters and using MPG"

Surfing is the same here, all measurements are imperial, board dimensions, wave heights.
I suspect the American influence. Where as sailboarding is all imperial. If I build a new surfboard it's imperial, if I build a new windsurfer it's metric.

The problem with km/l, it's a major maths exercise to figure out if the fuel economy is getting better or worse, ltrs/100kms is just how many ltrs divided by how far you travelled less 2 decimal points .... getting that to MPG requires a bit of mental acrobatics, the ltrs divided by 4.55 to get gals, and the kms divided by 8 and multiplied by 5 to get miles ..... then trying to remember what is was you were calculating in the first place .... but it does give the mind something to do when driving 400kms with bugger all to keep you interested enough not to start day dreaming .....

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[Corindikev]

When I was 15 in NZ back in the 60s petrol was 2 shillings & 6 pence a IMP gallon or 25 cents after decimalisation. But then average wages were 17 to 20 quid a week.

Unleaded 91 has just gone up to $1.96 a litre from $1.70 something a week or so ago. 95 & 98 are well over $2.00. The latest oil prices are now are the benchmak Brent Crude at $US114.20/barrel 10 minutes ago,