We did have our own oil refinery (Commonwealth Oil Refinery) but there is an appetite on all sides of politics for privatisation and selling our assets to foreigners.
We did have our own oil refinery (Commonwealth Oil Refinery) but there is an appetite on all sides of politics for privatisation and selling our assets to foreigners.
reno Cliosport 3 apparently run like crap on 98 but are fine on 95 - so some cars at least run worse with all the additives in 98.
Save the cash, just use 95. getting hard to find though with many of the big servos (around here at least) not offering 95 and only the high profit margin 98...
I would consider voting for Chifley but without the petrol rationing.I knew it, you're a closet socialist Signed up for the Greens Party yet?
Sorry CC1701, I cant accept that there is this much variability between fuel suppliers. There is to much subjectivity and perceptions in this evaluation. The calorific heating value in different suppliers of diesel will not vary by as much as the claimed 10%, they probably all come from the same source.Originally we running the C5 on Caltex premium diesel from woolies then swapped to the CostCo diesel, did the same with the bosses petrol 307.
Both cars used around 10% more when on the CostCo stuff, so we switched back to Woolies/Caltex for both. Fuel consumption came back down to as it was before.
The C5 would very occasionally hiccup momentarially on the Caltex, especially on cold days.
One day the C5 got filled it with Shell normal diesel. The hiccup hasn't occurred since and there is a slight improvement in economy and both cars just seem to 'run' better, hard to quantify though. So we've been using Shell fuel ever since in both cars. The 307 idles much smoother on the Shell premium petrol.
To me, it seems that there is a significant difference between fuel brands, both diesel and petrol.
I did some research and there is no Standard for Premium diesel and the oil companies aren't keen on disclosing what is the difference between normal and premium diesel.
The ideological post war rationing of many things besides fuel was destructive and caused hardship. Fortunately it ended with Chifley's government. Many of the ridiculous distortions can still be seen in surviving post-war housing and construction. UK had to put up with it longer.
I still have some of my unused ration tickets. You should have heard what my elders used to say about it.
It wan't done to help Britain, too many things were rationed. Chifley was more interested in a left wing dream than pragmatism or economic reconstruction. There were numerous class-war rationing oddities. When he went away, the crippling shortages very rapidly went away too. Industry quickly stepped up production.
Houses were severely limited in size, no matter your wealth, if you could get rationed materials, and this was a time when there were so many new post-war marriages. House building was slowed by shortages. There were suburbs where every second or third family lived in a garage, deliberately built first for somewhere to live. Commercial construction suffered badly also, though governments were able to pay their way around the shortages and rations.
One extraordinary example of taxpayers' money beating federal imposed artificial shortages is the brick very large original building of the University of NSW. When steel could not be found for columns they built load bearing sections in brick. Most of the building is load bearing. The floors were uneconomically redesigned when reo ran low. The roof spans were framed in timber for the same reason, and wait for it -- sheeted at exorbitant cost with corrugated copper (which later blew off). That long span roof had a ridiculous one way pitch, to avoid some gutters and downpipes. Windows presented a unique problem too - they were the standard steel framed type. When that ran short they were rolled in solid bronze. Copper was rationed too, but only governments could afford that sort of extravagance, so they got supplies. I don't know what manipulation was performed to obtain so many extra bricks.
You need to read more Kim since it's mostly too late to talk to older folk about it. It was not a successful time. Things improved during the 50s, remember?