Comments on: Fuel prices explained – Where does your money go?

By: Meryll

Meryll — Fri, 15 May 2009 10:45:26 +0000

hi. JUst want to ask, where did you get those information? I am doing a research for uni hope you can help me.. THanks mate!

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:46:06 +0000

In Jan 09 the retail price of diesel in Singapore was 20 cents CHEAPER per litre than petrol. I’d like to see an explanation as to why it’s up to 40 cents dearer per litre in Australia!

By: Dieselhead

Dieselhead — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:27:18 +0000

You boys are lucky. fuel here (UK) is $2.50 per litre. Diesel is 8c more.

Motering well never be cheaper…enjoy it while you can.

By: Fuel Prices Not Slowing Down &raquo Australian Car Advice & News Blog

Fuel Prices Not Slowing Down &raquo Australian Car Advice & News Blog — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 05:30:53 +0000

[...] Unfortunately for Mr Howard, he should realize that our Fuel Prices don’t need to be linked to the middle east since we don’t actually get much of our fuel from there in the first place. If you’re interested, I wrote an article a while ago explaining fuel prices. “I can promise all Australians that we are all the time looking at trying to help at the margin, but it’s very difficult because we can’t ignore the brutal laws of economic arithmetic.”Mr Howard said. [...]

By: arlo

arlo — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 02:32:08 +0000

Very needed information found here, thank you for your work

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 12:31:02 +0000

Paying $1.40 for fuel is not good, but I don’t think the government is to blame.

My strategy lecturer was actually talking about it the other day, and his quote was something like “the best way to control high fuel prices is high fuel prices”. Which has a fair bit of sense if you think about it. When people are forced to pay higher amounts for fuel, they will look at other methods, such as smaller cars, not driving agressively, or combining trips in order to reduce the fuel they use, which reduces the demand for fuel.

And combine this with the growing chinese and indian economies, which are currently using about 3 barrels of oil / year / person, compared to that of the US and Aus which is more like 30 barrels. Think about it in a couple of years when they begin using more fuel. There is only one way for the fuel prices to go.

Hopefully we start seeing more alternative fuel options in the near future

By: alborz

alborz — Fri, 26 May 2006 01:53:34 +0000

I agree with the should part of your comment. But the reality is Fossil Fuel IS a necessity! If Fuel was $3 more expensive then our economy would come to a crashing halt. I am already paying $70/w for Fuel, if I had to pay an extra $2/L for fuel, that would take my bill up to almost $200.. a WEEK! That is insane.

Public transport would become more expensive as well. The only way renewable, alternative fuel sources are going to be put to use, is when Fuel has either ran out, or is incredibly expensive. So I guess at $3/L as per your suggestions, a lot more people would be lining up for Hybrid cars.

By: Pedaller

Pedaller — Fri, 26 May 2006 01:19:56 +0000

Non-renewable fossil fuels should be treated as a luxury item rather than as a necessity. It’s that the price of fuel reflected its true economic and environmental cost by being at least 3 times its current cost. If that means sticking an extra $3 worth of tax on it, then I vote for it.

By: Urban

Urban — Fri, 26 May 2006 00:19:55 +0000

There is a review of your article on Spinopsys!
http://www.spinopsys.com/archives/413

I don’t think one can blame the government given that we have such low fuel tax.