Whats with the fuel prices ?

[pearcey]

Hmmm, may have to give it some more thought. Might have to start talking to a 4wd'ing couple we know in Kununurra to see if they fancy a Canning trip in '23.

Biggest problem that most folks have is with corrocations. This is where you just select first or second and cruise slowly along not destroying every thing. If I remember we had seven vehicles, two of us with camper trailers and out of that lot we only had one flat and maybe three boggings. Biggest or should I say most problems, were with Camels and the odd
Dingo.Both would often wander in to or through camp. Another thing was we were the last biggish group on the track for the season. We saw very little traffic and had no problems with on coming traffic, camping or even bad weather.

[Cuppa]

Biggest problem that most folks have is with corrocations. This is where you just select first or second and cruise slowly along not destroying every thing. If I remember we had seven vehicles, two of us with camper trailers and out of that lot we only had one flat and maybe three boggings. Biggest or should I say most problems, were with Camels and the odd
Dingo.Both would often wander in to or through camp. Another thing was we were the last biggish group on the track for the season. We saw very little traffic and had no problems with on coming traffic, camping or even bad weather.

Ha! I had just clicked on your post & waiting for it load (slow satellite this morning) & MrsTea called out from downstairs "There's a dingo out here". Second time one has been around close to the house in daylight. This time I went to get my camera, but it was too far away to get a pic by the time I saw it. A different one this time. Darker than the first, but just as big. No camels here though!

Back on the CSR, we like, & are used to travelling alone, but I think maybe travelling with one other vehicle might be wise on the Canning, especially if we are towing.

[Brissieboy]

I remember petrol being around 3/6d (that's 35c for all you young guns) a gallon when I had my FJ Holden back around 1964. Not much diesel around in those days.

[mudnut]

18 cents for a litre of LPG back in 94'. That was when owning a duel fuel V8 made sense.

[MB]

Reckon I did score memorably LPG for a very short time in 1993/4 for my personal first FJ…..40 second hand at $0.08L when leaded was around $0.55L IIRC. Agreed Mudski Mate it was very worthwhile running gas on our guzzlers stable priced below $0.20 for many years thereafter. Could never understand why our Government then would only subsidise personal vehicles conversions to LPG by near 75% and never a single dollar for bulk work registered vehicles as many tried to grow their businesses ………..
LPG F-Truck 351c’s were sold for TD42T leafy’s


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[BrazilianY60]

18 cents for a litre of LPG back in 94'. That was when owning a duel fuel V8 made sense.

Interesting. LPG (called here GNV for "Gás Natural Veicular") is sold here to this day in cubic meters. It seems that the same occurred over our countries. LPG conversion was subsidized, LPG was less then half the price of petrol to run the same range and then over the years the government lost interest in it. A lot of business that grew around the LPG conversion and even gas stations that invested tons of money to be able to offer LPG to their customers simply broke.

Here, where we have Diesel, Petrol, Ethanol and LPG at the pumps, it is being more cost effective to run Ethanol. LPG is still cheaper at the pump, but the amount one has to drive to break-even the conversion cost is not worth it. Specially when loosing space on the car trunk or on the truck bed to accommodate the new tank.

[mudnut]

Ethanol has some downsides too. It's not really sustainable. I've heard of in-tank fuel pumps plastic melting and an acidic residue forming in the engine. This causes some metals parts to etch and be eaten away, unless coated in nickel (I think that is the right metal, but happy to be corrected).

[BrazilianY60]

Ethanol here is not used as a conversion from a petrol car. You run it on cars that left the factory ethanol ready, so no issues with metal reaction. On the old carby days, carbys were coated with nickel indeed. But this was honestly on the 70´s, so it has been a long way already and it is settled technology here.

[MB]

You’d expect and budget for this in the True Australian Outback filling up your diesel sub-tank for safety longevity purposes. Never expected a Melbourne Sister City- Bendigo to rape us passing through enroute




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[MB]

Mine and many others, ‘Great Australian Dream’ was simply being able to afford exploring this HUGE Beautiful Country exploring/camping somewhat cheaply eating basic tucker/food carried along and or caught.
How is it even possible now for Young Local Legends starting out to potentially migrate to regions to join/assimilate Earn & Spend their little left over fuel money and ALL grow TOGETHER


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