Shell pulls ethanol pumps from Victoria!!!!

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Originally Posted by REPTYL

I used E10 for every fill up 1 year ago, because I was accually seeing a good cost saving (I do a heap of Ks).
Someone has got greedy somewere along the line, the cost difference to ULP closed several cents over night for no obvious reason and stayed there.

The cost for me is now about the same each week to run ULP or E10.
But I dropped E10 as soon as the price jumped (my own personal protest).
I'm guessing I wasn't the only one.

My other person protest is to never use one of these "save 4 cents" dockets.
Maybe if everyone joined me they would go the same way as E10 and we could just by our groceries and petrol at a non-inflated price.

I Know...I'm dreaming. But I do feel a little better now that I've vented.

I'm with you, I also don't use those "4 cent" dockets... It can take up to 15-20mins to refuel at a Shell at the close of the week's cost cycle due to the que. While filling up at the BP or Mobil up the road takes 5mins.

I figure, the most I could save is a couple of bucks, so I'd have to be getting paid less than $8 an hour for it to be worth my while.

Originally Posted by Wazza

On one of the shows last night...Current affair ?...Today Tonight ?...they did a comparison between E10, 91 Octane/98 Octane and Diesel...

Found it.....
Petrol that saves you money


A bit of a shock!!!!....apart from the obvious being Diesel was cheapest per kilometer.....the 98 Octane actually worked out cheaper per kilometer than the two other fuels !!!
Yes the 98 octane was the dearest per litre, but it made way better kilometers to the litre, and actually worked out it was cheaper to run the car on 98 !!

I wouldn't have believed it....am I missing something ?

My wife has been filling the sh*t box exclusively with 98-octane and been telling me this anecdotally for years, so I'm not surprised.
There is a few Shell stations that do have 100-octane where we travel. We try to fill up at those. They call it "Optimax Extreme" or similar. However, if I understand it correctly that also has 5% or so ethanol blend*.

[size="1"]* Not 100% certain of this thou/SIZE]