Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHONAnd you think YOU pay a lot for petrol? Huh, you ain't see nuthin' yet, mate! Have you ever paid $888.8 for a litre? Here is photographic evidence of how much we pay. But you can breathe easy - this Shell service station in Caulfield is being refurbished, with new underground storage tanks and better access. And when I drove past today, they were simply testing the pricing display - hence the astronomical sum.
At that rate, 65 litres would cost $57,712, so the contents of my fuel tank would have cost a fair bit more than my car itself! And just for the record, the average price in Melbourne today was very low at about $1.28 a litre, For the benefit of my American friends, that works out to $5.76 a gallon, or 54 pence a litre for my mates in the UK.
FOOTNOTE: Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater, sold his house to buy a litre.
