Beat Petrol Price Cycles
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.
Understanding the Price of Petrol
The price of basic unleaded petrol in Australia is currently as much as $1.50 per litre. Understanding the price, and how it is made up, is actually simpler than many regulators would have you believe.
There’s a lot of speculation about the price of petrol, but the breakdown is broadly this (assuming the price is $1.50 per litre) for every one litre of petrol sold:
- 38.14 cents is Federal fuel excise – a fancy name for