Ouch, last one I passed in Tauranga was 2.55 a litre diesel (well 54.9c). Ouch...
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Ouch, last one I passed in Tauranga was 2.55 a litre diesel (well 54.9c). Ouch...
$2.65 yesterday here in Hanmer but the new NPD in Culverden was $2.50 for diesel. I usually put just enough in here to get me to either Culverden or Amberley where I can then fill up for a reasonable price, note I didn't say a good price.
When I started bying diesel it was 0.66c a Litre. I remember thinking my throat had be sliced when it went up to 0.92c a litre...
Shit I remember thinking the end of the world arrived when it hit 50c a litre.Quote:
Originally Posted by No.3
Didn’t know how lucky I actually was :wtfsmilie:
Yip, I climbed out of Dunedin heading north at 59c a liter
Didn't really understand the road tax thing at the time.
Can remember it at 40 cents mid 1990's but used to get it thru a fishing company who forward purchased, was 22 cents plus GST. Even at that price many still disconnected speedo's.
I have had the app for quite a while but I didnt know about this!Quote:
Originally Posted by XR500
How does this work?
I'd like to know this tooQuote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
Somewhere on the app it said "register now for notifications", and that's where you registered with your email address. Of course I now can't find that bit on the app. Possibly their webpage???
My memory of filling our car with petrol began with accompanying mum to the petrol station at the tender age of 5 or 6. Whatever, I clearly remember mum saying that cost 38 cents a gallon to fill the car (so around 10cents/L):D
OK guys, I put you crook. Just looked up the Email alert I get and its from Gull, not Gaspy:XD:
https://gull.nz/alerts/
I remember when putting $20 of petrol in the car was normal and would get you more than 30kms down the road.
Joe Biden made some comments the other day about Exxon Mobil creaming it, not willing to drill more exploratory wells etc, pumping up profits, on a share buy back and generally loving the high price of product at the moment. Most probably the CEO is on a whopping big bonus scheme so why not.
I remember as a youngster with first little honda 65 motorbike having to pay 44c a gallon for petrol! A whopping 10 cents a litre. That was a lot out of the $2 wages I earned working friday nights in the old man's sports/gun shop. Fill tank with a couple of gallons and it left just enough to buy beers for usual saturday night school booze-up! Tokoroa. 1968.
Be happy - it ain't too bad yet. You can still buy a couple of gallons of juice after 3-4 hours work and have enough for the beers.. :cool:
CHCH very early 70s...... I remember getting out of school and a mate going to the gas station and putting in .25cents worth of petrol in his mums ford prefect and going for a drive !!
I can tell you one thing the price of gas has done, there are nowhere near the numbers of idiots going for skids in our semi rural area. Quite nice to be honest. Obviously the emergency bene doesnt stretch to skids gas.
Sounds like our neighbourhood in Ch-Ch, except I was hooning around in an Austin 8Quote:
Originally Posted by sore head stoat
Tell kids these days you went 'hooning' in a car that put out eight horse power and they will piss themselves laughing:D:D:D
It was a half crown to fill the tank with petrol and a shot of oil for my Francis Barnett. That would last a week of going to school and some riding with mates. No helmets needed back then.
Blew $17 worth of petrol in my car in the 70’s.
$17? Big deal you may think but that paid for 154 litres of petrol.
Ah the days when you could buy a Mercator for $3:60 and .22 ammo at $1:50 cents a packet or less.
there is nothing economical about running an internal combustion engine in these trying times.
Waterskiing behind the 350 chev jet boat, straight pipes off the back and the odd lick of flame... Nothing to go through $100 of petrol a day - back at $1.20 a litre or better!
Here's an interesting viewpoint, as demand for petrol slowly falls and diesel and aviation (or 'middle distillate' grades) goes up, they are predicting that there will be a surplus of petrol produced as compared to the demand for diesel for process and transport purposes.
The point of it appeared to be that the price of diesel and avcat could end up fully decoupling from petrol and end up subsidising petrol prices as petrol supply exceeds demand but diesel remains in short supply. Interesting viewpoint.
Worth remembering that while the manufacturers, suppliers, distribution and retailers all have to make a dollar, it is actually the government at fault for the sheer scale of cost to the private motorist and freight operators. It is free money for the govt, they do nothing for it, blaming the fuel companies is off the mark, they take home the least, yet they do all the work.
Some interesting reading here. Little off track but still good.
I suppose my main inspiration was when I dis a run down south nearly 2 years ago and took the V6 murano as the lad had my 2.8 pajero.
This was when fuel was low due to covid. Diesel was close to a dollar and petrol was low too.
I will be fair and say I was nursing the V6 with the economy gauge but I still stuck to my normal speed
V6 was nudging mid 10ks to the litre.
If I tried i could do the 640 round trip hitting the low fuel lightsomewher around 20-30ks from home.
What it worked out was that the V6 was near identical fuel cost. Obviously not counting road ks but the paj isnt as economical either.
If a 4wd v6 could get mileage somewhere in between than I'm still ahead from where I am now
Dont use a trailer bugger all so that's not a major but well aware that fuel economy will plummet if the throttle is used aggressively or for load.
Isn't the fuel tax collected to pay for roading and infrastructure? or is the paid for through some other tax?Quote:
Originally Posted by 257weatherby
Its supposed to pay for the reading but the was a news article the other day showing that most of it gets spent on other things.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shearer
Does anyone know when the 30cent per liter "relief" on petrol tax runs out? It was originally 3 months but I have been told it is/was extended but google not helping there.
https://www.autocar.co.nz/government...at-half-price/Quote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
Cheers @striker
:thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
My brother and i use to buy the early 1948 to 1950 model Ford Prefects.Get them for about $70 $80.Flog the death out of them,have a great time driving them around for about 2 -3 months.Bang,blow up.Fuel was dirt cheap then.Quote:
Originally Posted by sore head stoat
You are right about economy for that V6 @csmiffy. It is a cracker of a petrol motor - the Nissan VQ35. Eight times on the world top ten engine list. Have had it in two of my sportscars now - a Nissan 350Z and my Skyline 350GT coupe (tuned for 287 and 280hp respectively, while the Murano is tuned to about 230hp). The Zed gave me 31mpg on a trip (9L/100ks), and the 350GT coupe was even better at 32-33mpg (about 8.7L/100ks). They certainly suck alot of petrol round town but they were extremely economical for tuned 3.5 litre sixes on the open road. VQ35DE - a superb motor. VQ35HR and VQ37 variants also.Quote:
Originally Posted by csmiffy
Even the heavier Murano with the slightly detuned 230hp VQ will move when you need it.. Only CVT boxes though I think..
Note to my above post - later Muranos with VQ35HR were higher tuned. 250-260ish hp.
Got the Email today: Gull service stations 12 cents/L off for 24 hours, finishing lunchtime Thursday
terrano was just under half a tank...put $100 of diesel in and didnt quite fill it!!!!! running at about 3km per $ now
and the tax take PER LITRE is still more than it was 12mths ago even with the 25cents off..... go back a year further and the numbers look even worse,the taxman is creaming it now and not likely to take foot off throat anytime soon....money for jam.Quote:
Originally Posted by 257weatherby
I got caught out by the $150 limit the other day at Gull/Waitomo and the like. Pump stopped and didn't think about it till I drove off and realize the tank wasn't actually full.Quote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
You know you can go over $150?Quote:
Originally Posted by Barefoot
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