Yes mum Yes we know we buy it because we have to, and yes we will continue to do that, but it won't stop people having opinions & sometimes with good reason. So if you want people to shut up & deal with it or start riding a bike around maybe you shouldn't read discussion forums??
But here in WA it doesn't help we don't have the competition of 4 98octane fuels. Don't know about other people but I only question it because at the same time, BP stations are generally always about 10c a litre more than the rest, including those next door to other servos. And it's usually only BP that without explanation or a decent reason put their prices up by 10c/20c the next day. Like yesterday the BP near my house was 102.9, today 119.9. Last time I checked the financial world was still f**ked up & not getting any better, and the price of oil was still very low but I'd guess they will say there is demand in China for fuel so that's why it went up.
But then again it's not just them, they are all pricks for putting the price of petrol up asap when the price of oil goes up, but when it comes down you will see less than half of that drop come back down. That's a good reason prices today are where they are at:
99c per litre....oil goes up, 1.09 p/l...oil goes down....1.05 p/l....oil goes up, 1.13 p/l...oil goes down, 1.10 p/l...oil goes up, 1.22 p/l....etc etc That's why the price of petrol now is still considered normal, even though the price per barrel compared to pump prices from when it was 90c a litre to now is different by ~20c.
Fuel. Buy it.