Complaining about the fuel prices in OZ?

1303Steve Scirocco Rare

8,650 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 17 Jan 2008, 9:09 am

#628559

Hi

I just got an email from an ex pat living in Munich with the cost of the fuel over there.

"Prices in Germany are currently around:

Standard: Euro 1.44 (95 RON) = $2.39 AU
Super: Euro 1.46 (98 RON) = $2.43AU
Super Plus: Euro 1.51 (100 RON) $2.51 AU
Diesel: Euro 1.34 $2.23 AU

The Euro 1.46 cost of a litre of Super breaks down to:
Producers costs and profits: 57.2 cents (approx. 39%)
Petroleum and Environment Taxes: 65.4 cents (approx. 44%)
Sales Tax: 23.3 cents (approx. 16%) – in fact a tax on a tax

It looks as if Standard-Grade petrol is being phased out as it is the same or nearly the same price as Super-Grade."

Steve

ancientbugger Custom Title Time!

1,986 posts · joined Mar 2004 · 17 Jan 2008, 4:38 pm

#628609

Also, I notice like everywhere else except Oz that diesel is cheaper than petrol!! Guess who owns a diesel engined vehicle🙁

Flintstones Custom Title Time!

1,077 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 17 Jan 2008, 6:42 pm

#628633

ancientbugger wrote:Also, I notice like everywhere else except Oz that diesel is cheaper than petrol!! Guess who owns a diesel engined vehicle🙁

go back about 10 years and diesel was around half the cost of petrol..........makes you wonder!!

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ElusiveStranger Officially Full-On Dubber

330 posts · joined May 2006 · 18 Jan 2008, 8:57 am

#628695

ancientbugger wrote:Also, I notice like everywhere else except Oz that diesel is cheaper than petrol!! Guess who owns a diesel engined vehicle🙁

UK's more expensive to diesel. £1.04 for a litre of petrol, £1.09 for diesel.
LPG's still cheap.....until everyone jumps on the bandwagon (like diesel) & then watch the govm't crack that up to match.

ancientbugger Custom Title Time!

1,986 posts · joined Mar 2004 · 18 Jan 2008, 10:26 am

#628707

Just to think when I came to Oz petrol was 35cents a litre!

sikdub Wolfsburg Wizard

571 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 18 Jan 2008, 12:41 pm

#628714

The cost of gas where i get it for my company car has gone up about 10 cents in the past couple of weeks..

Joel Now containing 100\% E-Wang

9,368 posts · joined Feb 2006 · 18 Jan 2008, 3:38 pm

#628732

oh wow someone thats actually paying more than the poms are

its nothing more than the greedy governments taxes thats got diesel so expensive atm
its easier to refine than petrol and is actually a bi product from the production of petrol

HerbieBoy82 Cool....

128 posts · joined May 2006 · 19 Jan 2008, 6:20 pm

#628858

sikdub wrote:The cost of gas where i get it for my company car has gone up about 10 cents in the past couple of weeks..

I bought my dual fuel fairmont 6 weeks ago & fuel's gone up 13c a litre since then. NOT HAPPY...JAN!

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4,980 posts · joined Dec 2003 · 19 Jan 2008, 6:59 pm

#628863

its good saying they pay X$ for their petrol ,but is there weekly income at the same rate as in oz,just fuel for thought

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ringoschariot Officially Full-On Dubber

282 posts · joined Jan 2005 · 21 Jan 2008, 5:25 pm

#629145

people do forget that in the uK and Germany wages are much higher to cover the higher cost of living.

petrol prices are high in Europe but we should stop converting prices into Aus $ as it doesnt add up.

1303Steve Scirocco Rare

8,650 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 21 Jan 2008, 9:58 pm

#629197

Hi

That's a very good point. Maybe I should ask my friend in Munich what the average wage is? Maybe we could a Big Mac test and find out what they cost in each country.

Steve

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1,429 posts · joined Mar 2004 · 28 Jan 2008, 8:24 pm

#630067

hey havnt really read what this is all about but get this.. i was paying about 60-70 cents australian for petrol in Malaysia 3 months ago. everywhere else in asia i paid about $1-$1.10 (thai, cambodia, laos)

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vwtyp2 Son of Jim - Creator of Good

2,504 posts · joined Sep 2003 · 29 Jan 2008, 7:28 am

#630116

I haven't cried about the price of petrol since I was in Europe in 2001.
Paying 80p a litre with a 3:1 exchange rate meant we were paying the equivalent of $2.40 a litre.

Most people seem normal, till you get to know them.

ancientbugger Custom Title Time!

1,986 posts · joined Mar 2004 · 29 Jan 2008, 4:14 pm

#630176

When I left London 20 years ago I was earning more in pounds then than I am in dollars NOW. Petrol was the same in pence per litre as it was in cents per litre (approx 35cents/pence per litre). The exchange rate was $2.54 to the pound. My wages in that twenty years has only crept up by around fifty per cent but petrol has increased around 200%. Include the addition of three kids into the equation 🤪 Just to put it all in perspective though I know where I'd rather be and it's not London👍

Volksaddict Wolfsburg Wizard

533 posts · joined Dec 2004 · 29 Jan 2008, 4:49 pm

#630183

Last time i was in holland my relos where paying in excess of $1800 pa for rego ....diesels are dearer ...higher usage me thinks ...wages over there are much the same as here

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Ray V