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This simple tip will save you a couple of hundred dollars every year, and it doesn't cost you a cent. It just takes a simple change in re-fuelling behaviour to put a couple of hundred dollars you would otherwise have wasted on petrol back in your wallet every year.
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Capitalizing on downward swings in petrol price is simple - but only if you refuel smarter
Petrol companies paint the picture that petrol price is both logical and cheap, but the reality appears quite different
This post is about petrol price and how to drive so you can re-fuel more often when petrol prices are comparatively low, thereby saving money.
Petrol price fluctuations
Petrol price fluctuations at the service station are inevitable and unpredictable – but there is a very simple driving and refueling strategy that will allow you to save whenever the petrol price drops. It’s an easy, no-compromise way for any driver to cut the cost of motoring.
As if the cost of living needed to be under any more pressure: The price of petrol is out of control – again.
Basic unleaded petrol looks like smashing through $1.50 a litre before the weekend – and you’ve got to wonder where all that money goes. Not to you and me, that’s for sure.
If you took a litre of petrol – let’s call it $1.50 – what’s the breakdown? Who pockets the lion’s share? Who’s getting rich? Because someone is.
Here’s how it works out.