Petrol prices getting close to last year's record. What about your city or town?

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#2404490 22-Jan-2020 11:55

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Cost me $150 to fill up my car the other day. One Hundred and FIFTY. I nearly pooed out a brick.

No idea what the price on the pump was though.

Cost me over $225!

Time to get an EV, even a hybrid could reduce fuel bills a lot in some cases.

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#2404511 22-Jan-2020 12:03

frednz:
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Cost me $150 to fill up my car the other day. One Hundred and FIFTY. I nearly pooed out a brick.

No idea what the price on the pump was though.

Cost me over $225!

Time to get an EV, even a hybrid could reduce fuel bills a lot in some cases.

It amuses me how this gets trotted out as the "answer". Like everyone just has $10k or whatever just sitting around to "get an EV".

I mean, in theory, the savings over time could cover the cost, but unfortunately they prefer that you buy the car first, then make the savings.

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#2404518 22-Jan-2020 12:15

frednz:

Time to get an EV, even a hybrid could reduce fuel bills a lot in some cases.

The EV / hybrid situation has to change though. It's simply unsustainable to have vehicles not contributing to their share of being on roads.

Sure an EV will still be cheaper, but not as cheap as it is today when a per km RUC is added on.

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#2404525 22-Jan-2020 12:29

sbiddle:

frednz:

Time to get an EV, even a hybrid could reduce fuel bills a lot in some cases.

The EV / hybrid situation has to change though. It's simply unsustainable to have vehicles not contributing to their share of being on roads.

Sure an EV will still be cheaper, but not as cheap as it is today when a per km RUC is added on.

Roughly about half. 30c is the per litre equivalent cost of charging at home, add 70c, and you get $1 per litre equivalent

A mate traded his old Mazda 6 on an old Civic Hybrid which is non plug in, but the fuel economy is about half, so he has achieved saving half the fuel costs quite cheaply

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#2404530 22-Jan-2020 12:41

sbiddle:

The EV / hybrid situation has to change though. It's simply unsustainable to have vehicles not contributing to their share of being on roads.

Sure an EV will still be cheaper, but not as cheap as it is today when a per km RUC is added on.

RUC is coming to EVs from 2021. However, I imagine RUC will have a change up before that happens. If it was introduced as it is now then EVs would pay more RUC than Hybrids. Plug in Hybrids would get the worse deal since they'd pay double RUC.

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#2404556 22-Jan-2020 13:12

frednz:
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Cost me $150 to fill up my car the other day. One Hundred and FIFTY. I nearly pooed out a brick.

No idea what the price on the pump was though.

Cost me over $225!

Time to get an EV, even a hybrid could reduce fuel bills a lot in some cases.

Why an EV? There are heaps of petrol and diesel cars which use less fuel than the current beast which would be far more practical for me.

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#2404701 22-Jan-2020 15:20

$2.35 for 95 up my way. Costs me $77.55 for 33litres, and I can get 620km out of that :)

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#2407511 27-Jan-2020 13:33

So Z releases some pretty pictures and says look, we've been selling at cost Via heavy discounting thanks to all these unmanned stations we supply popping up. We're really the ones struggling. Forcing us into regular wednesday discounting

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/119057444/z-energy-counting-the-cost-of-petrols-unmanned-effect

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#2459271 11-Apr-2020 10:50

Now that New Zealand tanks are almost overflowing with petrol, and the price of crude has plummeted, anyone notice any difference in price?

I see the "Pak 'N save" Petone is now cheaper than even Gull or Waitomo, at 181.6

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#2459275 11-Apr-2020 10:57

I had to go into town (Hastings) Wednesday for a flu jab. I pass most of the petrol stations on the way. 91 was $1.75 everywhere I looked.

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#2459282 11-Apr-2020 11:10

paid $169.9 today in Rotorua.

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#2459290 11-Apr-2020 11:19

Yep. Majority of chc pumps are at 1.73-1.75 for 91 at manned, 1.68-1.71 unmanned

And you can still take 6-10c off that manned one generally

Goes to show economics in action. Lots of supply and little demand, price drops.

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#2459292 11-Apr-2020 11:19

I haven't worried about the price of petrol since June 2016.

Free sunshine will do most of the time. $0 per charge.

If I charge from the grid it's 15 cents / 7km. So 700km would cost me $15.

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#2493695 28-May-2020 14:28

NPD have announced they are expanding across to the North Island with sites in Porirua and New Plymouth before Christmas.

Porirua I know hasn't had the full effect of Waitomo and Gull opening up in the Wellington Region so this is good news for that area

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/121654030/south-island-fuel-retailer-npd-steps-into-north-island

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#2493722 28-May-2020 15:21

Linuxluver:

Free sunshine will do most of the time. $0 per charge.

Plus the capital cost of two Tesla Powerwalls and a load of PV panels I guess.....

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