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Miserable weather today. The car was getting very low on fuel but I didn't really want to stop. I'd seen petrol this morning at 193c so made a bargain with myself that I would stop if it was below 190, but otherwise I would put it off. Damn petrol station had 187c. I was very affronted by its refusal to cooperate in my attempt to avoid stopping so decided to make a stand and refuse to fill up at such a rude and uncooperative petrol station. Home has now been successfully achieved and petrol can wait for another day.
I was running a bit low to risk an airport run yesterday so I put in $15 worth at a 7/11 doing 1.84/L, I think. It was a very short stop... but it'll get me through another week at least.
The fuel light's not on yet so I don't count it as urgent... I don't need to go anywhere much so I can probably manage another week on a few fumes but it is definitely not something I can put off too much longer.
I'm trying to hang on until prices are below $1.75 before doing a full tank... the cheap BP on Heidelberg Rd is at $1.79, can't be long now.
Do you have an RACV card by chance?
I have a lovely gold one, why?
You can scan it and get 5 cents off petrol at an EG Ampol.
I often combine it with fuel voucher discount from Woolies if I get a big enough shop.
https://www.racv.com.au/membership/member-discounts/motoring/fuel-vouchers.html
Watching petrol prices fascinates me so much, since I don't have a car. It's $1.80 one day and then a week later it's $2.03? But then you can get it for $1.90 if you drive to the other side of the city
The price increases tend to be one sudden jump upwards and then a slow slide downwards too. The different stations used to be fairly synchronised but they are all over the place these days.
I have the Petrol Spy app which tracks the prices at different places and it has a graph which shows the average prices over the last couple of months for each state. The different price pattern between them are crazy. We currently have price cycles that go up then back down over about a month, Perth apparently has dramatic weekly fluctuations. I'm pretty sure Melbourne's price cycles used to be a lot shorter, it would be interesting to have comparison over time as well.
All the petrol stations on Plenty road are the same price from the ring road out to Mernda, regardless of company. Then the first petrol station south of the ring road is 15-20c cheaper. Very interesting