Gas prices in Oz?

[dwyman]

Prices are on the rise here in the USofA again. We're coming to Oz in October and will be driving quite a bit. What are you paying (Aussie dollars) for a liter (litre?) these days?

Thanks

[iceman]

Approx AU$1.30/Litre. It's fluctuating between $1.20 and $1.40 at the moment.

[[1ponders]]

$1.10 and $1.29 in Qld

[dwyman]

Thanks, Mate.

[erick]

Some small savings are to be had with discount vouchers from some supermarket chains- 4, maybe 6 cents per litre. Most capital cities have a well known price cycle, from a high price, dropping maybe 10-12 cents per litre over a week, then jumping back up again. Biggest saving is to purchase fuel the day the price is lowest and make maximum use of discount schemes.

Outside the major population centres, fuel prices are pretty stable, and in remote areas, pretty high - I'd expect well over $2 per litre in some places!

Diesel fuel price doen't vary much(?) and is a bit higher per litre than unleaded gasoline at the moment. Many SUVs will use diesel.

[Kal]

We call it petrol down this way, gas usually refers to LPG (liquid petroleum gas). Gallons of Gas Vs Litres of Petrol, it's almost a different language!! :P

[dwyman]

Ayup, seems like we're separated by a common language.:D

[erick]

A-lu-mi-nim trashcan on the sidewalk

versus

Al-u-min-ium rubbish bin on the footpath

:D

[Kal]

First time I flew to the US was with United Airlines and I got a coffee -

Air hostess - "Cream or Sugar?"

Me - "No thanks, do you have milk?" :shrug: :help: :rofl:

[Bobj]

Here you go, mate. Just click on the state/s you intend travelling through, for the prices.:thumbsup:
http://www.exploroz.com/OntheRoad/FuelPrices/Default.asp

[erick]

As a good Queenslander (originally), I asked for white coffee. "Sorry, our coffee is brown?"

[rogerg]

What's the price over there in the US?

[dwyman]

I'm almost embarrassed to say that it's about $3.20 a gallon here. People so afraid that it might hit $4.00 before summer is over. By the current dollar exchanges, that's about what you blokes are paying now. I usually tell them to quit crying, we have the cheapest gas (petrol) in the world.

[erick]

They'll get a real shock if they visit Europe and buy gas!

[Kal]

Theres always Venezuala if you want cheap gas!

[Dujon]

Morning, Don.

Assuming you are using the U.S. gallon as a reference, your USD 3.2 per gallon equates to around AUD 0.845 per litre. Taking into account the current exchange rate (1 AUD = 0.83 USD) and assuming a price of AUD 1.30 per litre this transfers to USD 4.16 per US gallon. Assuming my logic is correct.

Lot's of assumptions in that lot. I don't know what it's like in the U.S. of A., but the price of petrol here goes up and down like a yo-yo. As is the case in your country it's a long way from distribution points in the main cities to rural service stations, so expect to pay a significant increase over urban prices when travelling.

[[1ponders]]

sorry to disagree John, but yo-yo follow fairly simple newtonian physical principles, what goes up must come down. Petrol on the other hand relies on some abstract mystical/metaphysical principle of what goes down must come back up ...even higher .:P

[casstony]

Try ordering eggs on toast for breakfast in the US. The waitress replies with a confusing array of options, I say poached or fried which confuses the waitress, then we call in the interpreter (wife) to sort out the order. - I know this is off topic, but occasionally you just have to live on the wild side and be bad.

[erick]

"Eggs, yes sir. Do you want them sunnyside up or over easy?"

Eric - :confuse2:

[Dujon]

Ah, jest not, good people.

Imagine someone from overseas coming to Australia. Regrettably we've lost the trés, zacs and denars since decimal currency landed but there's lots of confusion in the local pub. Schooners, middies and ponies are the colloquialisms around these parts but even they are not used in the same sense in other towns and states. Go to the N.T. and ask for a stubby and you'll finish up with something equivalent of a jeroboam. Where I live it's a small bottle (250ml).

Do other English speaking countries refer to a sausage as a 'snag'? Or a chicken as a 'chook'? Who other than someone who has lived here (or studied the local idiom) would know the meaning of 'boofhead"? Depending on where you live or visit 'football' can mean a number of different codes of sport. All that ignores such regularly used terms such as 'mate', which is splashed around as liberally as paint on a Jackson Pollock painting. Then there's 'fair dinkum', 'ridgy didge' and 'dinky-di' - all of which variously describe the same 'thing'. Geez, mate, I could go on till Ned becomes an honest man . . . eh?

It's fine to laugh at our confusion when faced with unfamiliar terms but a different thing altogether to laugh at them.

[erick]

I agree John, we all laugh together at how much the same we all are, yet have so many human-generated constraints that divide us! Thank goodness, laughter brings us all together! :)

[dwyman]

Just for the record, this will not be my first trip down under. I came down in 2005 with Dave Kriege and a bunch of other Yanks for a week of observing outside of Coona, and a second week in Sydney. Oh yeah, and a spent a week in Sydney in 1970 while on R&R from Vietnam. So jest away, blokes. I understand most everything you're saying. I can't wait to order up a schooner of Toohey's Old Black Ale and some prawn chops and chips. Can't get either here and really grew fond of them on previous jaunts to Oz.

[[1ponders]]

:lol: Prawn chops:lol: I haven't heard that one since adam was a boy :lol: (My great grandfather was a prawnie on the Brisbane river when I was a lad).

[dwyman]

Hmmm........well that's what they're called on the menu boards? Did I mispeak?

[[1ponders]]

No :lol: not at all. I just hadn't heard them called that for years. I gather the menu was in southern NSW or in Vic. They are called butterfly prawns here in Qld. But we won't go into interstate linquistic differences (not to mention cultural and social differences :poke: ). ;)

[dwyman]

Ahh.........I thought it might be one of those Aussie-isms like prawnie. You say your dad was a prawnie? What does that mean?

[[1ponders]]

My great grandfather used to net prawns in the Brisbane river for a living (he did it right up until the day he died at 98). Prawnies weren't trawlermen. They used to use long fine nets run out from the back of rowed dingies (punts). I remeber my grandmother when I was a very very young boy selling prawns out of whicker washing baskets at the markets for tuppence (2 pence) a pint bottle.

[dwyman]

Very interesting. I thought prawns were a saltwater creature like shrimp. My grandfather used to run a setline across the Fox River here in Oshkosh, Wisc. for catfish. He'd sell most of them and keep some to feed his family of 12 kids. I ran one myself when I was a teenager. Wasn't unusual to pull up a 30 lb catfish.

[[1ponders]]

yep they are like saltwater shimp. The brisbane river is salt for quite a few miles up stream. Nothing like this happens in the river now, though the water quality has improved considerably in the past few years.