trip planning

[Drover]

Yep, most probably right, nowadays I just roll with things, no sense getting knickers into a knot with worry ................ one thing I do know and I shouldn't get political here, Trump has put his foot in it big time ...............................

Refuelled today 200kms, 19.5lts for $54.25 ............................ getting up there I think Boondooma Homestead might be my limit, I owuld really like to just have ute and jerries full head off and just keep topping up as I go and see how far I manage... might make for some long stays as funds top up but be fun, no work to be annoying looking at dates etc. ....

 

[Boots in Action]

ep, most probably right, nowadays I just roll with things, no sense getting knickers into a knot with worry .

Yep, definitely the way to go!! Just hang in there and be thankful for what you have. Dreams come later.

 

[DRW]

We have house sitters booked for 3 months, plan was to go up the coast and then via charters towers to Alice then down to Ceduna along the bottom and back via broken hill and lightening ridge. We’ve been planning it for months, now who knows?? The house sitters is another problem so I’m not sure what’s going to happen, we’ve got them booked for next year as we were/are planning to do a lap, might be better off just going to Vietnam for a few months it would be way cheaper!

 

[Drover]

I'd be in a Quandry for sure Dave, though I think I would do it in reverse as the weather might improve that way .....................

Ampol Depot in Gympie just posted 288.9 for Diesel so in current form local places will end up about 7c more in a few days... god I hope not ...........

 

[Drover]

Thinking I will stay home or at least be leaving Big Mal home ....................... $51 per 100kms is a tad rich for me, working on 17l/100 @ $3/lt so have to be flat country........... maybe dig out the tent ...

 

[Drover]

It was put to me that I leave the van at home and stay in cabins or motels so I did the maths and came to the conclusion we'll still be going away next month, with Big Mal as since we off grid camp I can settle my mind with the excuse that the extra fuel cost is no more than a few nights in a caravan park and camped beside a river for a week or so will negate the thoughts of doom and be a heck of a lot cheaper ................ so long as I can refuel that is .................

"Always look on the Bright side of life"

 

[DRW]

It was put to me that I leave the van at home and stay in cabins or motels so I did the maths and came to the conclusion we'll still be going away next month, with Big Mal as since we off grid camp I can settle my mind with the excuse that the extra fuel cost is no more than a few nights in a caravan park and camped beside a river for a week or so will negate the thoughts of doom and be a heck of a lot cheaper ................ so long as I can refuel that is .................

"Always look on the Bright side of life"

I’m thinking the same Ian. Ed are dead for a long time and this mess of Trumps could continue for years!! Or I’ll just spend three months at Tin Can Bay lol

 

[Hitting the road]

I would still like to head out to Charleville for Anzac Day at least. All these towns and local folk will be doing it real tough as their tourist trade will fall away...again...not unlike when the Governments forced people to stay at home because of the Chinese virus... It'll be both fuel availability and price that'll decide as I refuse to pay silly money.

 

[Drover]

Just sitting back watching,, at present it would be about $170 for me to go to Cabarlah which is only 320kms from us and my earlier enthusiasm to just "Do It" has abated somewhat when I really look at what it could cost in the end and I have my Red Petrol Jerries full of diesel, if someone was to nick some their petrol engine won't like the diesel, always time to smile .... Of course in these times steel jerries are the only way to go, plastic jobs are so easy to empty out...

Maybe just a camp at Maryborough airport free camp to pander to the camping desire might be in order and check out the little Aviation Museum with fish and chips form the great little shop across the road.......

During COVID wasn't stuck at home and had some of the best camping runs ever over QLD and NSW .....................

 

[Drover]

Just had a look at Petrol Spy places that I sometimes fuel up at in MaryB and Gympie are nearly at $3.10 or near enough and locally its just rolled up to $3.04, so thats it I'm parked up till things get sensible, looks like Woollies delivery for tucker and I'll borrow my mates treadly ......................... Well give it a week for the price to look normal anyway .............. crap near $35 to go to Bunnings in Gympie and back ...........

 

[DRW]

Just had a look at Petrol Spy places that I sometimes fuel up at in MaryB and Gympie are nearly at $3.10 or near enough and locally its just rolled up to $3.04, so thats it I'm parked up till things get sensible, looks like Woollies delivery for tucker and I'll borrow my mates treadly ......................... Well give it a week for the price to look normal anyway .............. crap near $35 to go to Bunnings in Gympie and back ...........

Yet the food works in Normanton has diesel at $1.78 per litre with a $100 limit. They say the fuel was delivered before the spike and they are not going to price gouge their community!! Pity others don’t follow suit

 

[Drover]

Our local still gives the 2c/lt discount for locals and reckons at present no problems with supply but then they do their own hauling ........... Biggest gouges I think are the suppliers, look at the prices of city and country they are about the same so the gougers are certainly city based ............

 

[poor but proud]

Yet the food works in Normanton has diesel at $1.78 per litre with a $100 limit. They say the fuel was delivered before the spike and they are not going to price gouge their community!! Pity others don’t follow suit

yes funny that? all of the fuel currently in Aus, was probably shipped before the s*#t hit the fan, methinks we are being taken for a ride, what is the fuel excise being raked in by our government at present ?, the same pollies who are concerned about our welfare and cost of living pressure must be rubbing their hands because of the extra tax collected,so they can travel in style and retire with a huge nest egg amen.

 

[Drover]

I would say the refiners are pushing up their price, so overseas interests then the wholesaler adds a few % also so it moves down the chain .... with Canberra being the main offender.

So with diesel at $3.10/lt , the price is made up as
Fuel Supplier $2.31
Excise .52c
GST .28c
....................................... Thats 80 bluddy cents to canberra ..........
So the Excise is added to the suppliers price, then GST is added to the total so the big gougers, the government are double dipping as usual............ If the Excise was dropped and only GST added that $3.10/lt would only be $2.54, easy to see who the gougers are, they live in Canberra.

 

[Hitting the road]

yes funny that? all of the fuel currently in Aus, was probably shipped before the s*#t hit the fan, methinks we are being taken for a ride, what is the fuel excise being raked in by our government at present ?, the same pollies who are concerned about our welfare and cost of living pressure must be rubbing their hands because of the extra tax collected,so they can travel in style and retire with a huge nest egg amen.

Yeah, it's a bit ordinary that the oil companies are increasing the price of fuel in line with the increases in the International wholesale oil barrel prices. So we are being gouged big time as the fuel being sold to us now was already here...paid for at old prices prior to the tiff in the Middle east.
Yet, our "Government" is sitting on their hands, and as you note raking in additional GST based on the inflated retail price. To top it off we have a Minister allegedly in charge of all this who is plainly away with the fairies!
IMO this has fallen perfectly in to the long term plan of this green Government...make fossil fuel so expensive consumers will buy less and possibly even look to buy some Chinese built electric car and their dream of lower emissions becomes a closer reality.
Sadly for the consumer I don't think we will see any change or relief at the bowser, being they have put a person in charge of our fuel supply who has spent the last ten years trying to get rid of fossil fuels altogether!

 

[poor but proud]

According to reports the flood water is heading down the Thompson toward Stonehenge, Jundah and Windorah...again... It would seem at this stage that these towns are going to be off my trip again this year. I'll be keeping an eye on it, really want to go out there...if worse comes to worse it'll be Charleville back up through Augathella to Barcy then Longreach / Winton.

just reread your post,the Longreach locals have an old saying ...there is no P in our river...... Thomson river..

 

[Drover]

just reread your post,the Longreach locals have an old saying ...there is no P in our river...... Thomson river..

There's Beer though, many moons ago when it was up and over the highway just past the bridge , nearly knee deep and quite a few cars stopped, as I was passing through in a Unimog my mate and I hooked up about 4 at a time, got them to block intakes and exhaust and we dragged them thru, did a few runs then we had to go like hell to get to our Bivvie for the night ... When we got to Winton we found a couple of cases of beer in the back, must have washed in we reckon ... Didn't let our bosses know though....