Comments on: Coles Express leads petrol prices up in four capitals

By: Bingo

Bingo — Thu, 22 May 2008 13:38:52 +0000

sad part is that both major parties are so deep in pockets of big Oil and Big Banks they will never even attempt to do anything . Like, give ACCC some real power.

By: Davo

Davo — Sun, 11 May 2008 00:42:06 +0000

Back to basics?
We used to go to the butcher to buy meat,the green grocer to buy fruit & veg(it is always fresher),the supermarket was for non perishables only,it was never a fuel source.
We have gone wrong somewhere in our demands for convenience & “choice”.
Still shop the old fashioned way.
I rarely buy an apple from a supermarket.
Too expensive $2 a kilo more from a supermarket
Convenience always costs we have played into the hands of a duopoly.
The Walmart scenario is dangerous from any perpective.
Have never used a “discount” petrol voucher.

By: slugger

slugger — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:32:03 +0000

Hi Liam,

I used to be a button jockey at Shell years ago.

The cycle used to go like this and I have no way of knowing if it still goes this way:

Tanker comes in, price is set.

On your way to work, you go past three or four other stations in the area and fax their prices to head office.

Towards the end of the day, you get a call telling you that they’ll ‘support’ knocking 1,2 or 3c off the price – they’d set the unleaded price and everything else went off that (diesel never changed during the week, just on tanker day). LPG was a separate issue.

The price heads downward over the week till the tanker arrives and the price goes back up.

It seems to me that’s the way it still goes. We were the last to go down, the first to go up.

As I say, I have no idea if that’s still how it works, but it certainly seems that way.

By: Bret

Bret — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:55:00 +0000

Trackdaze, maybe but my car gets better fuel consumption running ethanol blend (E10) than using Coles/Shell ULP.

By: trackdaze

trackdaze — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:57:59 +0000

On another note.

Dont get fooled into buying the 3cents per litre cheaper ethanol blend. because of the lower energy content you will use more than the discount gives you.

By: trackdaze

trackdaze — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:54:00 +0000

Back to the topic.

Good going by the ACCC on the naming and shaming.

Now it is up to the lemmings to put their brains into gear and shop elsewhere for both food & petrol.

By: Naughtyius Maximus

Naughtyius Maximus — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:20:38 +0000

Jerome Says:
May 8th, 2008 at 12:47 pm

Its called diversfying a larger model range with VW declaring they are after number 1 spot. I really think you got to think “if possible” and see this! Or are you another Toyota Tosser and bleat silly for having AWD! For some reason you have your bolts loose on your neck like Frankenstein………its not my hero car. Its a addition to the VW range which will compete in wider market place. Gee you are odd!

By: Grumps

Grumps — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:59:53 +0000

I think a big part of the problem is that the cost of everything, not just petrol, is going up but wages aren’t following.

We have all noticed an increase in the price of the basics such as food, milk etc but my pay packet hasn’t gone up to match it.

I don’t think people would actually mind too much paying $1.55 a litre for petrol if the price of other things had remained stable.

By: Andrew M

Andrew M — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:52:22 +0000

always buy at independents, I do.

they are with out a doubt the cheapest, and maintain prices that are a little more stable.

infact i say always support small business, whether it be fuel or your local IGA.

if anyone ever travels the Warrego Hwy in QLD, on the way to Toowoomba there is an independent that is always 5cpl cheaper. that kills both myths.
fuel in country areas can be cheaper, and the “big mobs” arent cheaper

also with the tax on fuel, isnt it a cents per litre tax, not a percentage tax?

By: Daniel Dacey

Daniel Dacey — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:47:51 +0000

Reckless1

Here is a reason. Some people think spending the money over and over again at the supermarket they are forced to now use, is worth it if they save 4c at the petrol station. The brain doesnt go into gear, so thinking if these supermarkets are dearer to shop at and the savings elsewhere would be worth more than the docket, or if the petrol docket represents a real saving when you actually compare the price of the petrol at these service stations, doesn’t come into it.

So they buy more than they might otherwise to meet the minimum quote needed to get a fuel discount and rush off to pay top dollar for the petrol anyway.

What is not to like about this for Coles and Woolworths?

Dan