Petrol Pricing In Canberra - AGAIN!

Don’t whinge about petrol prices, just syphon someone’s tank!

I fill up when empty, and have paid over $1.50 in some country towns when doing gigs.
I couldn’t really care less about the price of fuel . I need my van ….

That being said I wish Guinness was $1.22 a litre ….

ps I’m sort of scared to post here now 🙁

The saudis dropped production by 150,000 barrels (or so) a day yesterday.

You’ve no choice but to live with it.

Would it be churlish to cast aspersions on the size of your wang at this point, VY?

I save the occasional 10cpl vouchers for filling my thirsty V8. That way it doesn’t cost me too much to run, and I am thus not motivated to replace it with a more efficient vehicle.

If you don’t know why I need 320 horsepower to get me to the office each morning, then that’s not my problem.

(Can that one go to the pool room?)

Agreed Mael. Quit your damn bitching, people. All you fossil fuel guzzling suckers can go die in a ditch.

If you are a customer at a servo, apparently you think it is the fault of the actual guy behind the counter, and this gives you carte blanche to abuse him or her for it.

I fill up when my car is empty.

It is too inconsequential to worry about sub $20 purchases to the point you will all get hernias from all the worry.

So petrols too expensive ? Ride

So works too far away ? Get a new job

Don’t like the rise/fall of petrol prices ? follow all of the above advice.

Different elasticities.

How come these price fluctuations only affect petrol, not other oil products? You don’t see the price of Vaseline jumping all over the place! Am I just not observant enough to notice that all oil based products have risen in price?

Should I only buy ‘Vas’ on Mondays?

That’s different cause GovCo also regulates the supply.

what? you mean like the water?

Oh God! I agree with you again, Ralph!

Does this make me a Fascist, or you a Whining Pinko?

Regulate the price, if you don’t mind the odd fuel shortage here and there.

“dodgy oligopolies are hardly a free market.”

Touche.

“weekly price setting probably would lead to slightly higher prices in the long term, but mostly the upset over the prices is psychological.”

So why muck with it for the sake of righteous indignation? People will still be appalled that they are paying $1.20 a litre this week when they were only paying $1.05 last week (and demand that the ACCC do something about it).

Manny – fair enough; but there are ways of paying less for petrol, the simplest of which is to fill up on Tuesday or Wednesday.

As dragging the stuff out of the ground gets more expensive prices are going to continue to rise faster than the CPI. No amount of regulation (no matter how canny) is going to stop that.

I have to use a car, as I have children that are too young to use a bus, I need to drop them off in the morning, and the bus service in canberra is crap anyway!

dodgy oligopolies are hardly a free market.

weekly price setting probably would lead to slightly higher prices in the long term, but mostly the upset over the prices is psychological.

Golly johnboy – government regulation? Bit pinko, init 😉

All you economists out there can poo-poo this idea; but I reckon regulating a single weekly price setting point for petrol would have the oil companies speculating the prices up (to mitigate risk), leading to everyone pay more overall.

Regardless – Mutley & S4anta are right. Fill up on a Tuesday, and you’ll do better. Either that, or respond to the market like I and an increasing number of people seem to be doing, and sell your car.

S**t! Tuesday is the one day they don’t let me out of the lunatic asylum.

Yawwwwwwn

Oil prices actually took a jump in the last couple of days, up several dollars a barrel. As usual, the oil companies pass the price rises on to us the instant they happen. Pity they don’t do the same when the oil price goes down.

Porblem is that oil is dictated by global demand, via the futures market. That puppy will never be stable

I dunno, in most other retail businesses you expect some price stability.

If someone advertises a price one day I reasonably expect that price to be maintained two days later.

Nothing drastic but if they were forced to set prices weekly I don’t think you’d banjo the market, but I do think we’d have happier people.

We live in a free market economy, so as such petrol prices are controlled by what the market is prepared to pay for… *snore*

Go whinge on Today Tonight or get over it.

Catch a bus or ride a bike.

buy petrol monday to wednesday. problem solved.

So fill up on Tuesdays. Not rocket science, is it?

I paid 99.9 (with voucher) at the Jerrabomberra Woolies servo on Tuesday evening. The pricing cycle is obvious. Use it where you can.