Just filled up at

UNITED     $145.5/litre

Others

Shell         $167/litre

Caltex       $167/litre

BP            $167/litre

Hey FD maybe we can make a section in the Board members titled PETROL WATCH........??


OOps forgot to tell where

Melbourne South Western Suburbs.

$ 1-59 here-Shell

$1-55 BP SA and about the same everywhere else in town

Agnes wrote on Sep 24^th, 2018 at 12:45pm:

$ 1-59 here-Shell $1-55 BP SA and about the same everywhere else in town

about that in ACT...

I have been monitoring petrol prices for years.
This is the graph from 2006 to now
they keep trying to get it as high as they can.

http://i64.tinypic.com/vg33f5.jpg

Monitor petrol prices or, get a life.

The choice is yours.

My watch runs off a battery. Does a petrol watch make yukky fumes?

I imagine it would be an interesting watch.

The piston would have to be really really small

But imagine the carby jets

Valkie wrote on Sep 25^th, 2018 at 8:52pm:

I imagine it would be an interesting watch. The piston would have to be really really small But imagine the carby jets

Fuel injection would be better.

Quote:

“Current gross retail margins in the five largest cities are now over 50 per cent above the 16 year average since the ACCC began tracking this data.” Mr Sims said. https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/petrol-prices-hit-four-year-high-in-australia%E2%80%99s-largest-cities

And that article was from August, so the margins are higher now.

It's no surprise what has caused this. The Coles and Woolworths 4c discount dockets have decimated independent operators. There is now no competition so retail margins have gone through the roof.

So basically we are paying more for petrol because of our collective short sighted stupidity.

The_Barnacle wrote on Sep 25^th, 2018 at 10:41pm:

It's no surprise what has caused this. The Coles and Woolworths 4c discount dockets have decimated independent operators. There is now no competition so retail margins have gone through the roof.

I used to go to Woolworths for fuel but now go to an independent. The Woolworths near me are higher even with the 4c discount. The independent is consistently 5-6c under Wooly's pre-discount price

Gordon wrote on Sep 25^th, 2018 at 8:56pm:

Valkie wrote on Sep 25th, 2018 at 8:52pm: I imagine it would be an interesting watch. The piston would have to be really really small But imagine the carby jets Fuel injection would be better.

I believe that fuel injection would be even harder.
Mechanical injection would require tiny tiny gears and seriously small injectors

Electronic injection would require the smallest electric motor to power the pump and the required EMS would also be near microscopic

Not that it couldn't be done, but it would be really difficult.

Being an engineer
We have a tendency to monitor and graph the most interesting phenomenon.

I have set up a simple spreadsheet to check my cars mileage and performance
With three entries I can
See what mileage I get in four different values
See how my car performed with different types of petrol and oils
         (Mobil oil allow my car to run cooler, gets better milage)
         (95 fuel gives me better mileage than lower value, but 98 is little different from 95)
See how petrol prices are trending
See what my average usage is
And monitor overall vehicle performance

The data on my boat fuel consumption is particularly interesting.
How much difference a windy day makes is unbelievable.