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Article #8588Re: Petrol prices
From: Glenn Capuano
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 00:00
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>Sure am! Should've taken my old HX Wagon, it's on gas. Dearest we saw >LPG was 44.9c not much more than it has been up here lately. Most of >the time it was low 40's. Guy at the garage today tried to tell me >that LPG in QLD has gone up because it's the northern winter and they >are paying more for fuel, so in line with the fuel parity system it >went up. If that was the case how come petrol didn't rise with it and >also prices in NSW didn't change. Considering LPG is a by-product that >used to be wasted!! > It's true...according to the RACV it's because of a price rise in Saudi-Arabian gas - though how that can affect us when we're entirely self-sufficient in LPG is beyond me...It does always go up in summer because of the northern winter, but never to this extent before...it's been continuously above 30c for the past 2 months in Melbourne, which is unheard of...back in June it was 18.9cpl. Now it fluctuates between 29.9 and 35.9cpl Glenn Capuano
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10a0c5,b3625f131cfebef9 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a0c5,public From: glenn@werple.net.au (Glenn Capuano) Subject: Re: Petrol prices Date: 1997/02/03 Message-ID: <32f5d18f.8276475@news.netspace.net.au> X-Deja-AN: 214209883 references: <5cc2sn$t46@opera.iinet.net.au> <32ec37a1.30613072@news.ipswich.gil.com.au> <32ed28fa.1737104@news.ipswich.gil.com.au> <32edd48e.21060708@news.ipswich.gil.com.au> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Netspace Online Systems mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: glenn@werple.net.au newsgroups: aus.consumers