Thread: Petrol v diesel economy

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.

Originally Posted by XR500

We have signed up with Gaspy, and now get 24 hrs warning of their 10 or 15 cents per litre discount Thursdays, often its the 3rd Thursday of the month. With the usually cheapest diesel in NZ,

I have had the app for quite a while but I didnt know about this!
How does this work?

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

I have had the app for quite a while but I didnt know about this!
How does this work?

I'd like to know this too

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)


OK guys, I put you crook. Just looked up the Email alert I get and its from Gull, not Gaspy

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..

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.

Originally Posted by sore head stoat

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 !!

Sounds like our neighbourhood in Ch-Ch, except I was hooning around in an Austin 8

Tell kids these days you went 'hooning' in a car that put out eight horse power and they will piss themselves laughing

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.