{"id":2921,"date":"2013-08-22T08:36:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T22:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/?p=2921"},"modified":"2020-06-20T01:35:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:35:09","slug":"where-you-dont-want-to-fill-the-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/fuel-2\/where-you-dont-want-to-fill-the-tank\/","title":{"rendered":"Where You Don\u2019t Want To Fill The Tank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So there you are, stopping off at the petrol station to top up the tank of your good old family <a href=\"http:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/toyota\/\">Toyota <\/a>. Like most people, you\u2019ll roll your eyes at the amount that whizzes up on the bowser and remember back in the Good Old Days (I must be getting near middle age if I\u2019m starting to use that phrase) when filling up the tank didn\u2019t cost nearly as much as half a week\u2019s groceries\u2026 which is only a slight exaggeration.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s certainly a fact that Australia is a pricey part of the world to buy petrol in, especially premium petrol. In the OECD countries, it\u2019s in the top ten most expensive places to fill the tank with premium. At the end of the December 2012 quarter, the countries in the world where you don\u2019t want to fill up were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spain<\/li>\n<li>The Netherlands (no wonder bikes are so popular over there)<\/li>\n<li>Hungary<\/li>\n<li>Luxembourg<\/li>\n<li>Slovak Republic<\/li>\n<li>Australia<\/li>\n<li>Sweden<\/li>\n<li>Germany<\/li>\n<li>Ireland<\/li>\n<li>Canada<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(This list doesn\u2019t take taxes and levies into account \u2013 these vary from country to country and make true comparisons a bit harder. It just looks at the actual stuff your car burns.)<\/p>\n<p>What about regular or non-premium? Things look a little bit different for Australia here, thankfully. In fact, we\u2019re the country with the third biggest gap between the price of regular and premium, with Canada and Mexico having bigger gaps (the smallest gaps between premium and regular are in Germany and New Zealand). A lot of countries don\u2019t have regular petrol, either, and are stuck with premium \u2013 and this includes the poor old Spanish and Dutch. \u00a0The worst places for regular petrol are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Denmark<\/li>\n<li>Germany<\/li>\n<li>Czech Republic<\/li>\n<li>Austria<\/li>\n<li>New Zealand<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There\u2019s always diesel, of course. \u00a0Again considering the plain price of the fuel rather than anything with any taxes or levies shoved onto it, Australia comes out very well indeed. Here\u2019s where you can get the fourth cheapest diesel prices in the OECD &#8211; only beaten by New Zealand, the USA and Mexico. The places where diesel was priciest were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Turkey<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DieselFuel_195121818.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2924 alignright\" alt=\"DieselFuel_195121818\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DieselFuel_195121818.gif\" width=\"223\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Norway<\/li>\n<li>The UK<\/li>\n<li>Italy<\/li>\n<li>Sweden<\/li>\n<li>Ireland<\/li>\n<li>Finland<\/li>\n<li>Hungary<\/li>\n<li>Germany<\/li>\n<li>Denmark<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You might ask where the cheapest places are in the OECD are. Well, the graphs I found with these fascinating figures only had room for 24 countries so they went for the most expensive 24 in each category. However, the following seem to be good places to fill your tank:<\/p>\n<p>Premium petrol: USA, UK, Austria<\/p>\n<p>Regular petrol: Mexico, USA, Canada<\/p>\n<p>Diesel: Mexico, USA, New Zealand (although the Kiwis clap a whopping big tax on diesel).<\/p>\n<p>The moral here seems to be that driving the way they do in American movies is a really bad idea.<\/p>\n<p>And spare a wee thought for our trans-Tasman rivals. At one point this year, their government was considering increasing the per-litre tax clapped on petrol on the grounds that the public had changed their fuel consumption habits (buying cars with smaller engines like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/suzuki\/suzuki-swift-review\/\">Suzuki Swifts<\/a>\u00a0or looking out for hybrid vehicles like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/nissan\/nissan-leaf-review\/4192\/\">Nissan LEAF<\/a>, etc.) and The Powers That Be weren\u2019t getting enough revenue from petrol tax as a result.\u00a0 Not sure if this bit of lunacy went through or not in the end \u2013 lobby groups didn\u2019t half kick up a stink \u2013 but here\u2019s hoping that our government won\u2019t get funny ideas as well. <a href=\"http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/trips.html\" style=\"visibility: hidden;\">http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/trips.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So there you are, stopping off at the petrol station to top up the tank of your good old family Toyota . Like most people, you\u2019ll roll your eyes at the amount that whizzes up on the bowser and remember back in the Good Old Days (I must be getting near middle age if I\u2019m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fuel-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12137,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions\/12137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}