On Friday, the price of a barrel of oil dropped US$1.00, from a slight rally, to finish at US$67 a barrel, more than 50% down on recent highs. The price of a gallon of ‘gasoline’ in The States is down to around US$2.45, whereas only a few months ago, our American friends were paying in [...]

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The Rudd government has received another broadside from the VACC, this time over its planned national Fuelwatch scheme. The peak automotive industry body in Victoria is calling on the recently proposed new Petrol Commissioner to abandon the flawed scheme.

The Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs, Mr Chris Bowen, will recommend Mr [...]

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RON? Not your next-door neighbour.

What does the RON number mean in regard to petrol?
Unleaded fuels carry a RON (Research Octane Number) rating. Put simply, RON determines petrol’s ‘anti-knock’ quality or resistance to pre-ignition; or if you want to put in another way, the Octane Number denotes its resistance to detonation.
If you run your [...]

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Mercedes Benz is planning to eliminate all petrol and diesel-powered models within its model line up by 2015, replacing them all with a new range of alternative fuel cars.

The overall goal of Mercedes’s plan is to lower the costs involved in road transport, to reduce harmful emissions and to lessen our dependence on the rapidly [...]

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Tired of paying through the nose for fuel? Sick of having to hang onto shopping receipts just to save a measly four cents a litre on petrol? The new MicroFueler might be just what you’re looking for.

Revealed in New York yesterday, E-Fuel’s MicroFueler takes sugar and yeast and converts them into pure ethanol, which you [...]

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