2026 Fuel Prices & Security of Supply

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#3481020 15-Apr-2026 13:30

wellygary:
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Nice Tuesday surprise, we have a commercial account with NPD and they emailed us to say Diesel is dropping 33c tomorrow for the period 15/4 to 21/4
I noticed that Waitomo went back to its Regular Thursday Discounting last, week, - hadn't seen that in a few weeks,

Logically I should go sit in that queue with my electric car taking two 20L containers to fill up my hybrid. Might have some interesting convos ; ).

I sometimes see long queues at PakNSave fuel. Looks like all the PakNSave fuel promotion details are on Facebook and Meta properties. That is why I didn't know about it.

Is there any other way to get PakNSave fuel promotion notifications?

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#3481026 15-Apr-2026 13:41

Yes, Gaspy.

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#3481027 15-Apr-2026 13:44

gzt:

Is there any other way to get PakNSave fuel promotion notifications?

Favourite the location in Gaspy and set it to advise you of price changes...

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#3481029 15-Apr-2026 13:52

SaltyNZ:

gzt: Security would be greatly enhanced if we used less of it at the best of times.

Please, stop, I only have so many spare keyboards to bang on the desk till destruction.

Actually best to waste as much fuel as possible at the best of times, then there is more margin to save during the worst of times :)

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#3481033 15-Apr-2026 14:04

wellygary:
gzt: Is there any other way to get PakNSave fuel promotion notifications?
Favourite the location in Gaspy and set it to advise you of price changes...

Does it notify the promotions like "spend $150" and get 30c off" ?

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#3481052 15-Apr-2026 15:22

Competent and concise fuel supply update from Luxon today (video)

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/fuel-stock-update-incoming-ahead-of-christopher-luxon-press-conference/F5HCKDWH2JAIDCFHD64V2KNROE/

Luxon mentioned raising the HT weight limit for better fuel efficiency. Uh.. so how does that look when you add all the crude oil that goes into bitumix for road surfacing and pothole repairs?

Maybe if it's electric truck because at least then you're actually improving fuel security, looking into the future, and not dieseling forever. Increasing the weight limit across the board seems like a really bad idea.

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#3481057 15-Apr-2026 15:50

gzt:

Luxon mentioned raising the HT weight limit for better fuel efficiency. Uh.. so how does that look when you add all the crude oil that goes into bitumix for road surfacing and pothole repairs?
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Well there goes the Auckland road network. We design our roads based on an estimated axle load wear rate, so millions of equivalent standard axles (ESA). Essentially our roads are designed to wear out over a ~25 year period, with the surface being renewed a number of times before a full rebuild. Increased heavies adds more ESAs per pass decreasing the life in the road pavement faster than planned which will lead to earlier failure and a massive depreciation cost that is not funded.

Increased heavies also have greater drag on the rear axles so they introduce shear to in to the surface as they turn so they will rip the surface apart quicker and degrade the road pavement quicker.... yay for long term performance /s

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#3481061 15-Apr-2026 16:00

Wear will be a later on problem when this has passed I would expect.

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#3481064 15-Apr-2026 16:05

gzt: Competent and concise fuel supply update from Luxon today (video)

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/fuel-stock-update-incoming-ahead-of-christopher-luxon-press-conference/F5HCKDWH2JAIDCFHD64V2KNROE/

Luxon mentioned raising the HT weight limit for better fuel efficiency. Uh.. so how does that look when you add all the crude oil that goes into bitumix for road surfacing and pothole repairs?

Maybe if it's electric truck because at least then you're actually improving fuel security, looking into the future, and not dieseling forever. Increasing the weight limit across the board seems like a really bad idea.

Bitumen is a refining byproduct of crude that isn't used for fuel, so using it for paving doesn't reduce petrol/diesel yields.

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#3481067 15-Apr-2026 16:09

coffeebaron:

Actually best to waste as much fuel as possible at the best of times, then there is more margin to save during the worst of times :)

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#3481071 15-Apr-2026 16:28

johno1234:
gzt: Competent and concise fuel supply update from Luxon today (video)

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/fuel-stock-update-incoming-ahead-of-christopher-luxon-press-conference/F5HCKDWH2JAIDCFHD64V2KNROE/

Luxon mentioned raising the HT weight limit for better fuel efficiency. Uh.. so how does that look when you add all the crude oil that goes into bitumix for road surfacing and pothole repairs?

Maybe if it's electric truck because at least then you're actually improving fuel security, looking into the future, and not dieseling forever. Increasing the weight limit across the board seems like a really bad idea.
Bitumen is a refining byproduct of crude that isn't used for fuel, so using it for paving doesn't reduce petrol/diesel yields.

That is true and a worthy clarification but using more of it remains an input security from the same source.

On a similar topic I wonder how fertilizer security is tracking.

I'm guessing fertilizer price and availability is not a severe issue for NZ at this time of year. But, anywhere between 30%-50% of world fertilizer supply exits through the strait of Hormuz. The disruption will hit here at some point.

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#3481081 15-Apr-2026 16:40

fastbike:

On a related note NZ Inc is now spending $200M extra per week on imported fuel, which will wreck our alrready weak terms of trade, making all imported items more expensive. RBNZ cannot look through the subsequent inflation so interest rates rises will be on top of increased costs - here's come a recession.

But its not a zero sum game, other discretionary spending in the economy will have contracted to accommodate the extra fuel spending, and a fair chunk of that will be other imports,

Sure some will be things like Hospo and Entertainment, but I imagine the number of fridges being bought at the moment is pretty low...

Lets see what the March Trade data looks like nest week...

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#3481083 15-Apr-2026 16:44

gzt:

On a similar topic I wonder how fertilizer security is tracking.
I'm guessing fertilizer price and availability is not a severe issue for NZ at this time of year. But, anywhere between 30%-50% of world fertilizer supply exits through the strait of Hormuz. The disruption will hit here at some point.

I saw an item about this on the TV a month or so ago.

The NZ fertilizer suppliers said that they'd be OK for stock for autumn application, but they were concerned about getting stock for spring application. If they can get fertilizer, it'll be way more expensive, and because diesel & jet fuel prices have about doubled, the cost of spreading it will be eye-watering. I'm guessing that will add up to much less fertilizer application in spring this year.

Another cost that won't really flow through until harvest time 2027

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#3481134 15-Apr-2026 17:32

Given that most of it is for export and the competitors will have similar costs perhaps the export hit won't be unbearably hard. Local food prices on the other hand could be serious trouble.

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