What the press is saying about petrol, LPG, diesel, crude oil, biofuel etc.
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Crude Oil below $100 - Petrol higher
11-09-2008 The Age. Crude oil has come down to less than $100 per barrel. Last time it was this low was on the 5th of March. The average ULP petrol price was $1.34. Today that price is $1.58 -- 24 cents higher.
The fall in the Australian dollar accounts for about 10c per litre. So who gets the rest?
The Australian Government did not do too badly; the GST has increased more than 2 cents per litre, making the total of excise and GST now 52.5 cents per litre. News Article
Xstrata Suspends A$ 586 million of Expenditure.
Aussie Dollar Climbs From 10-Month Low Amid Intervention Talk
Fortescue Metals puts $17.5bn projects on hold to review super tax
Rio Tinto to review new Australia investment over tax
Xstrata suspends $30 million exploration in light of the Government’s super profits tax
Rates rise - Again
Backflip on "the Greatest Moral Challenge of our time"
Caltex Australia agrees to purchase Mobil service stations
Perth Motorists Ripped-Off
Jobs at risk after Bushmaster exclusion
Volunteer Sacked For Swearing
Gross Domestic Product shows first negative result in 8 years
Victorian Bushfires
RBA rate drop to 3.25%
Victoria: No power, No Trains, No Water
Shell profit 2009
Back to School
“Green Holden” update
$149 Million to build green Holden
Tax Cut for Small Business - Smoke and Mirrors
Surplus Virtually Gone
Government Stimulus Payments
Elective Surgery Summer Break
Fuel tax will inflate grocery bill
NSW hospitals are full, try Queensland
FuelWatch dead and buried
BP Quarterly Results - Profit up by 83%
Excrement found in Dessert
OPEC agrees to cut output by 1.5 million bpd
Crude oil below $80 per barrel
RBA cuts rates by 1% to 6.0%
Big Parties Big Losers this weekend.
BP profits jump thanks to oil prices
Ambulance strike with a difference
PM Rudd: G8 made progress on climate talks
G-8 endorses halving global emissions by 2050
Prof Garnaut calls for urgent climate action
Changes to NSW Road Rules
Labor's $70 million hybrid gift to Toyota
Rates blamed for house price dive