Petrol Price

[Zytek_Fan]

3.76 a gallon for 87 octane here, and 4.75 a gallon for diesel.

Congress is getting a little weary of the oil companies...

[NicFromLA]

Calm down dude. It's the internet...

I love f*ing with Canadians.

[NicFromLA]

Yeah, right:


Notice the other two countries that haven't adopted the Metric System? Yeah.

That's right! Liberia! F Yeah!

But here's the real question: what system does Myanmar use?

[fisetdavid26]

That's right! Liberia! F Yeah!

But here's the real question: what system does Myanmar use?

I don't really know, and moreover... I don't really care

Still:

[Zytek_Fan]

America - Land of the Hambeasts.

[Blue Supra]

98 octane is abour $1.73AUD today. which is about...

FKN EXPENSIVE!

Luckily i have LPG, which is $0.61 per litre. Win

[acfsambo]

$1,37AUD/L for regular here...i think it works out to ~$6.xx per gallon or something if you use archaic measurements

How cheap do u guys hav it in Brisbane. Were paying $1.40-1.70/L (which is $5.60AUD/Gallon, $5.30USD/Gallon)

[IBrake4Rainbows]

I paid $1.46 for Normal Octane Yesterday. S'orright.

actually, no it's no, I WANT CHEAPER PETROL!

Invade...like.....Kuwait or something.

[Blue Supra]

QLD pays extra road tax that subsidises petrol cost.

[clutch-monkey]

apparently they'll also start using the sugar cane fields going to waste to produce ethanol to help keep petrol costs down or something, idk.

[Ingolstadt]

The really frustrating part about conditions here is that, the government doesn't tax petrol. In fact, the whole thing is from a damn corrupted government.

In the 1980s, our dear Dr Mahathir faced some challenges in his party, hence he privatised our gasoline, water supply, electricity supply, landline telephone, train service, all to companies that monopolized the industry, where the shareholders are all from his political party. The cronies then stick with him 'loyally' to reap profits off the people.

Malaysia is an Oil Exporting country. All oil, no matter Shell or BP or wahtever, they have to pay Petronas, a privatised company where the shareholders and directors are people from our ruling coalition party.

Hence when our government kept telling stories about how high the international market price for petroleum is, they're lying, because we dont buy oil from other countries, we dug it up our own backyard, which rightfully should be Malaysian's property, and our government then use our tax payers money to pay these privatised money, where public money is funneled to private money and into their own pockets.

Thats the sad thing.

Some info from OPEC countries:

UAE RM1.09 per liter
Egypt RM1.03 per liter
Qatar RM0.68 per liter
Kuwait RM 0.68 per liter
Saudi Arabia RM 0.38 per liter
Iran RM 0.35 per liter
Nigeria RM 0.32 per liter
Turkmenistan RM 0.25 per liter
Venezuela RM 0.16 per liter
Malaysia RM 2.70 per liter

FYI - $1 USD = RM 3.30

Malaysia's averaged hourly pay = RM3.00

[IBrake4Rainbows]

I loved it on TV last night.

Dr Brendon Nelson (Opposition leader) Was on Today tonight (srsly, Anna Coren is both a Liberal and a Douche) and he was talking about how His potential government would cut the fuel tax by 5%.

And then complains that the governments $1 Billion tax windfall from this fuel excise would, if his government was elected, go towards old people.

Is it just me or do those figures not add up? Using money you're not going to have.....

[henk4]

Euro 95 goes for €1.63/liter.
Diesel €1.20/liter

are you using "illegal" diesel? The normal consumer will have to pay about 1.35.
We have two types of diesel, basically different through a colored additive. The "red" diesel is allowed only for industrial purposes and agriculture (not road transport) while the normal diesel is taxed higher. In certain areas tax authorities regularly execute controls on your tank, because running red diesel is very attractive.
And for those who wonder why diesel is so much cheaper here than petrol, we have an intricate system of road tax, which levies a much tax on diesel powered cars, while also the sales tax includes an extra diesel amount.
The "low" tax on the fuel itself is meant as a stimulus for the haulage industry, which is big in Holland and has many international apsects as well.

[jediali]

anyone hear about the 9000 or so American pumps that cant facilitate petrol prices above 3.99/gallon

[Blue Supra]

Big prob here (and prob everywhere) is the truckies are raising transport costs due to higher diesel prices so EVERYTHING costs more as diesel keeps goin up