What are YOU paying for diesel???

[Preen59]

I paid 1.85 at Chatswood last night before i came home..

[Russ59]

I haven't got the new Golf yet but won't be long I have noticed a decent drop in diesel price down here in Nowra NSW was @ $1.90 + p/l at most servos but noticed the Caltex down the road from me had it down by 9c to around $1.81 p/l however petrol has only dropped by about 1c p/l at the same servo. Just the sort of thing I like to see when I've just bought a diesel.

[Preen59]

I haven't got the new Golf yet but won't be long I have noticed a decent drop in diesel price down here in Nowra NSW was @ $1.90 + p/l at most servos but noticed the Caltex down the road from me had it down by 9c to around $1.81 p/l however petrol has only dropped by about 1c p/l at the same servo. Just the sort of thing I like to see when I've just bought a diesel.

I'm hearing that! It was teetering on 2 bucks here last week.

[Russ59]

I'm hearing that! It was teetering on 2 bucks here last week.

Hopefully all the ongoing action from the truckies will see the prices continue to fall. They should never have increased the way they did, I always remember it being the other way around at the bowsers ie Petrol at least 20c p/l dearer than diesel. I think there is a lot of political motivation in the pricing.

Russ

[Preen59]

Hopefully all the ongoing action from the truckies will see the prices continue to fall. They should never have increased the way they did, I always remember it being the other way around at the bowsers ie Petrol at least 20c p/l dearer than diesel. I think there is a lot of political motivation in the pricing.

Russ

Yup. Greed and politics.

[smithy010]

And china.

[Preen59]

And china.

Yeah. Stupid China.

[Golf Houso]

Yeah. Stupid China.

Wouldn't it be stupid USA and Saudis?

[Preen59]

Wouldn't it be stupid USA and Saudis?

China is taking resources from everywhere! Whether it's oil, tool steels, ore, coal, whatever, they are driving up prices elsewhere.

What happens is that China takes the majority of the consumables, and what is left over is what we all scrap for. So it's supply and demand. The small (comparatively) amount that we buy here is four to five hundred percent of the cost of what China is paying for it in some cases.

Put it this way.. At work, we get plastic moulds from china CHEAPER than what we can buy the material for here! They're crap moulds and we nearly always have to modify them to get them to work the way we want, but still, you can see my point.

[Brisben]

China is taking resources from everywhere! Whether it's oil, tool steels, ore, coal, whatever, they are driving up prices elsewhere.

What happens is that China takes the majority of the consumables, and what is left over is what we all scrap for. So it's supply and demand. The small (comparatively) amount that we buy here is four to five hundred percent of the cost of what China is paying for it in some cases.

Put it this way.. At work, we get plastic moulds from china CHEAPER than what we can buy the material for here! They're crap moulds and we nearly always have to modify them to get them to work the way we want, but still, you can see my point.

We use guys in China and they get paid 50 bucks a week....they are happy to be earning anything at all.