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  1. How is the retail margin soo small? GST is highter than the retail margin…. Wtf…

  2. Luck_Beats_Skill on

    Then why is the fuel cycle such a large fluctuation given it isn’t driven by underlying costs? It’s fluctuates 40c. So do they sell at a loss for half the time?

  3. Different-Bag-8217 on

    We’re going to tax you on the tax that we already tax you on.. then tax your car as well..

  4. Let’s split that giant red section into wholesaler costs and wholesale margins.

  5. BornTelevision8206 on

    But reddit told me expensive fuel was because of petrol station price gouging?

  6. How fucking good is paying 37 cents on the dollar to the tax man, then paying a fuel excise, then paying GST on an excise, then the Gov going “wow bro that sucks it’s $2.50/L wish we could help! Good luck though!”.

  7. TheDanishCookie on

    Just to add regarding the red section on the graph, typically freight for these tankers coming in from Singapore is half a million USD to 2 million USD, now we’re sourcing it out of the US Gulf and freight is from 6 to 9 million USD

  8. I vaguely remember a quote from a retired Shell executive. He said it costs about $20 to land a barrel of oil in New York (or a terminal in the US) from Saudi Arabia or elsewhere in the middle east.

    Everything else is speculation. The ownership of the oil in a carrier ship changes hands a number of times between the middle east and the destination. It’s all down to trader bro types who will buy and sell a ship’s oil while it’s crossing the atlantic, and try to sell it to another bro *before* it reaches the USA, because then it will start to attract significant expense like docking fees, terminal fees, offloading, transport to a refinery, etc.

    Petrol could cost a lot less if crude oil wasn’t treated as a tradeable commodity.

  9. It seems like the y axis is not cumulative but rather the number refers to the each components? If so that’s a silly way to present this type of data.

  10. Why hasn’t the government even considered removing the excise when the lib were able to as an election promise.

  11. Jealous-Hedgehog-734 on

    We went from correcting a slight oversupply in oil markets to a projected gross undersupply at breakneck speed.

    One thing I expect to start soon is pass-through. A lot of energy intensive product like Aluminium and Urea are ordinarily exported via the Strait of Hormuz. You’re going to see that demand pushed into other markets which will drag up the price of electricity and gas worldwide as other countries try to fill the gap in markets.

  12. If the excise is dropped wouldn’t petrol stations run out of petrol and diesel sooner as people continue panic buying?

  13. mrflibble4747 on

    So we are expected to just accept the information provided as a valid starting premise?

    This is just the salesman’s “what colour fridge do you want” trick and so we debate the “truth” as represented by this misdirecting garbage!

    Grow the FK up!

  14. Mobasa_is_hungry on

    Get rid of the excise BUT, don’t let these corporations keep the price the same and keep the extra profit. Cut all possible loopholes, otherwise it’s just another covid situation.

  15. scorpiousdelectus on

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