How much is fuel where you are ???????????

**just** · 10th July 2011 04:45 PM

Diesel.

**Courty** · 10th July 2011 04:45 PM

Only ever used regular unleaded. My car runs just fine on it.

**markTHEblake** · 10th July 2011 04:50 PM

whenever i did the simple maths it seemed to me that the relative performance gains do not outweigh the extra cost.

**AndyP** · 10th July 2011 04:52 PM

I initially did my comparison costs when I was delivering pizzas and keeping a log book, so I had plenty of data. I know it wouldn't stack up now, but I fear going back to an "inferior" fuel, that also has Ethanol.
Even the fuel tank has a sticker recommending Octane 95 as a minimum.

**razaar** · 10th July 2011 05:38 PM

Andy
I wouldn't advise anybody to use fuel which has ethanol in it. Advice I was given was to stay away from it as it may harm your motor in the long term. Ethanol is a grain based fuel which absorbs moisture (which is why it causes problems in two-stroke engines). Anything that Bob Katter recommends is a red rag to me to stay away from.

**WBennett** · 10th July 2011 05:42 PM

Originally Posted by AndyP

Even the fuel tank has a sticker recommending Octane 95 as a minimum.

Then PULP is your only hope. Ethanol is shit.

As an aside, I own a 6 speed auto BF Falcon. Since ethanol has been legislated into our fuel (thanks NSW Govt), my consumption has gone from 9.9l per 100lm to 10.8 around town.

I have gone back to PULP and getting back towards 9.9 again.

**markTHEblake** · 10th July 2011 06:13 PM

Originally Posted by razaar

Advice I was given was to stay away from it as it may harm your motor in the long term.

thats the same advice i was given. Except that the person who advised.me got that advice from someone else.

I do not know which position the scientific data supports, all I have ever heard is hearsay.

**WBennett** · 10th July 2011 06:15 PM

Dad is a 40 year mechanic. Some engines have no problem with Ethanol fuel. Others don't.

A friends last model Laser crapped itself 3 months after she started using Ethanol based fuel as it was cheaper.

Time to ask the expert - Mike?

**Sydney Hacker** · 10th July 2011 06:25 PM

I'm glad I have a work car and don't have to worry about this stuff.

Our company cars are commodores, and while great on the highway they are very very sluggish around town when using the ethanol blended juice.

**AndyP** · 10th July 2011 06:28 PM

Originally Posted by wbennett

Time to ask the expert - Mike?

he has been compromised. He likes Katter.

**Hawkers2008** · 10th July 2011 06:53 PM

The price difference is more than performance boost from higher octane fuels.

It doesn't stackup money wise unless you take into account the cost of buggering up your engine.

**idgolfguy** · 10th July 2011 08:01 PM

What if your car can only use pulp?

**AndyP** · 10th July 2011 08:13 PM

Originally Posted by Hawkers2008

The price difference is more than performance boost from higher octane fuels.

Yes, there is that. But the price difference is also because only regular unleaded gets some sort of discount via the government or something.

**Daves** · 10th July 2011 08:16 PM

Originally Posted by Hawkers2008

The price difference is more than performance boost from higher octane fuels.

It doesn't stackup money wise unless you take into account the cost of buggering up your engine.

The higher octane fuels have more energy per litre and in theory your fuel consumption should improve by a percent or 2. My car demands 98, so no choice in what I put in. Have had issues with ethanol in my boat, and I have never knowingly bought the stuff! Seems you can get ethanol even if it isn't disclosed.

**markTHEblake** · 10th July 2011 09:48 PM

Originally Posted by idgolfguy

What if your car can only use pulp?

use ethanol pulp

**MegaWatty** · 10th July 2011 09:52 PM

No ethanol in WA.

**idgolfguy** · 10th July 2011 09:59 PM

I thought ethanol was bad for the car.

**PeteyD** · 11th July 2011 11:13 AM

Depends on the car. Mainly older ones.

**Grunt** · 11th July 2011 11:18 AM

Just for a comparison for the US prices it was US$3.71 a gallon in LA on Friday. That is for 87 octane. They go up from there to 89 & 92. The 92 was just under $4.

**BrisVegas** · 11th July 2011 11:34 AM

Originally Posted by Grunt

Just for a comparison for the US prices it was US$3.71 a gallon in LA on Friday. That is for 87 octane. They go up from there to 89 & 92. The 92 was just under $4.

wow, that's gone up. 10 years ago in the USA it was still roughly $1 a gallon. Yet they still haven't embraced small cars?

**Webster** · 30th March 2012 12:55 PM

Over $1.50 a litre everywhere down here. What are other Ozgolfers paying?

And what the @#$% does the Petrol Commissioner Joe Dimasi do to earn his $330k a year (set up when Rudd was PM)?

**dc68** · 30th March 2012 12:57 PM

Earning 330k I don't think he gives a **** what juice costs. CeeNut!!

**rubin** · 30th March 2012 01:19 PM

filled up the car last night - $1.58

**LeftyHoges** · 30th March 2012 01:41 PM

Portland was $1.489 when I filled up on Monday. So if Jack's gone to $1.50 since then we'd have to be at around $1.549 I would guess. Will have to check it out.

**oncewasagolfer** · 30th March 2012 02:13 PM

$1.46 for the ethanol blended shit and up to $1.53 for normal unleaded.

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