Comments on: Tourist complains about LPG Autogas price: town lobbies don’t seem to give a hoot

By: Alice

Alice — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 22:35:07 +0000

Ah the Alice, no wonder I left, the best sight was in the rear view mirror as I drove out never to come back. Such a shame, I loved the town growing up and have fond memories, it is a shame it is being destroyed from so many angles in so many ways.

By: Ralph Folds

Ralph Folds — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 22:28:53 +0000

OK. 50cpl freight cost to Central Australia in a triple road train = $61,250 per trip.

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 12:52:53 +0000

90cpl landed including freight!!!

By: Ralph Folds

Ralph Folds — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 02:12:59 +0000

Re 90c a litre to transport LPG to central Australia. A triple road train (3 tanks) holds a total of 122,500 litres. So to cost 90c a litre to transport would mean that each trip would have to cost $110,250.

By: John Childs

John Childs — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 11:12:50 +0000

Jimbo –
can you explain why it costs so much more to transport a litre of LPG than it does to transport a litre of petrol?
Note that LPG weighs only about 540kg per 1,000 litres, whereas petrol weighs approx 710kg per 1,000 litres, so it should take less fuel to shift a litre of LPG than petrol!
And I’m sure it costs far less than 90cpl to bring the petrol here!

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 04:51:38 +0000

A friend of ours is an LPG tanker driver and he informed me that it was over 90cpl to get LPG to Central Australia. He also told me that the government as of the 1st of July takes 5cpl excise on this product. (Don’t forget GST on top of this) Taxes, Taxes, Taxes. On this maths, I don’t know how the independents sell any LPG and stay viable.
I think Edon Bell and this online editorial should get their facts right before getting up on it’s soap box and trying to political point score.
[ED – Many thanks for your comment, Jimbo. Every time we try to get comment or information from the local fuel industry we run into a brick wall. Please put us in touch with your tanker driver friend. And next time you fill up, ask the servo people to return our phone calls. That's part of us getting the facts right.]

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 14:38:28 +0000

I think people would still complain if fuel was the same price as five years ago.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 12:49:47 +0000

I think everything is relative in Central Australia. Why have a go at Alice Springs independents? Has anyone been to Kings Canyon, Yulara, Erldunda and Marla recently? These are closer to Adelaide and charge on average close to $2 per litre … Shell sites. Need I say more?
Support your local independents like the Mobil Larapinta, Mobil Sadadeen and Caltex Indervon. Recently I won free fuel Friday at Caltex on the Stuart Hwy. Good to see someone is giving something back.
I think boycotting Woolies and Coles should start at the supermarket level. Again, supporting local retailers is the way to go. Remember, locally owned companies support community sporting clubs and events. Have Coles or Woolies done anything for locals lately?

By: Daz

Daz — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 04:24:17 +0000

Well said Erwin, but I am expecting that the response you may get from from owners is the time honoured “transport costs, remoteness blah, blah, blah”. Makes me wonder sometimes why I came back? Wasn’t for the price of fuel though – could have done without that!