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2022 Peugeot Landtrek Ute - Possible Australian launch!
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The hospital car park is full of 4WD's, very few live on farms or on dirt roads.
Running costs seem to be higher and accepted by staff.
Although we actually need a 4WD to get into the farm in rain we have done without, using a Land Rover at the gate.
Being thrifty is probably why we could get three daughters through university?
Running costs seem to be higher and accepted by staff.
Although we actually need a 4WD to get into the farm in rain we have done without, using a Land Rover at the gate.
Being thrifty is probably why we could get three daughters through university?
Fuel economy may emerge as a buying factor as we have moved back into a period of rising fuel prices. Transport companies are floating the idea of fuel levies again. There are factors that may result in shortages of diesel. The economical sedan may start to look good if there are fuel station queues.
Without hijacking the original thread, that fuel will not get cheaper is a broad, sweeping generalisation.
From memory, about 15 years ago petrol was at something like 147USD a barrel. At the time, the AUD was near parity, so we felt it less. It was still about 1.60 at the pump.
Over time, whatever the forces were that raised it changed, and wholesale dropped to, again from memory, 47USD a barrel.
This resulted in prices that were, within the last 2 years, 99c a litre at the pump.
So it could be that prices may never be lower, but there is a precedent.
There is a Commonwealth webpage that shows real prices of fuel have trended downwards since 1925. Hard to believe when we remember fuel at four shillings a gallon in the 1960's but apparently so.
At present time when there are political disruptions in the world fuel trade fears are we are in for a difficult time again when there is a possibility of further substantial rises. People reference the oil shocks of the early 1970's. At present rises are being cushioned by release of oil stocks from strategic reserves. According to an American Petroleum Industry website America imported an average of 670,000 barrels a day of oil and petroleum products from Russia. It's not easy to instantly replace given the Saudis are offside over a minor matter of cutting up a journalist so it's been necessary to be nice to the Iranians and the Venezuelans. Problem is, Australia will be chasing the same supply of non-Russian oil. The other shortage will be of refined diesel. The Russians are a major supplier of diesel which the Americans often run short of. A few months back there were pictures of six large tankers loaded with diesel en route from Russia to ease an East Coast diesel shortage. Britain was getting some 62% of its diesel from Russia. Australia has run its diesel stocks very low in the past and warnings were out from suppliers but we.ve never run out.
Things will even out because all this Russian oil will go to places like China and India and Pakistan and that will reduce demand from the Middle East but the change won't be smooth. If the Americans place secondary boycotts on tankers that move Russian oil it will get worse. The worst thing for price would be if the Russians cut their oil exports. That would be a real price shock.
At present time when there are political disruptions in the world fuel trade fears are we are in for a difficult time again when there is a possibility of further substantial rises. People reference the oil shocks of the early 1970's. At present rises are being cushioned by release of oil stocks from strategic reserves. According to an American Petroleum Industry website America imported an average of 670,000 barrels a day of oil and petroleum products from Russia. It's not easy to instantly replace given the Saudis are offside over a minor matter of cutting up a journalist so it's been necessary to be nice to the Iranians and the Venezuelans. Problem is, Australia will be chasing the same supply of non-Russian oil. The other shortage will be of refined diesel. The Russians are a major supplier of diesel which the Americans often run short of. A few months back there were pictures of six large tankers loaded with diesel en route from Russia to ease an East Coast diesel shortage. Britain was getting some 62% of its diesel from Russia. Australia has run its diesel stocks very low in the past and warnings were out from suppliers but we.ve never run out.
Things will even out because all this Russian oil will go to places like China and India and Pakistan and that will reduce demand from the Middle East but the change won't be smooth. If the Americans place secondary boycotts on tankers that move Russian oil it will get worse. The worst thing for price would be if the Russians cut their oil exports. That would be a real price shock.