How miuch do you pay for petrol now?
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I pumped at SPC. Get 11% + 5% (member) discount, from 1.757 (9
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1.757 is for 98 petrol.
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went JB last nite
1.51 ringgit
Synergy F1
not my bike, me is pillion nia
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i stick to SPC.
more and more outlets popping around SG, soon should eclipse the stranglehold shell has at most locations.
price-wise is competitive. Using octane 95...paying abt 1.6++ for it. -
Shell had done away with the discount. The rate for 98 Octane is S$1.5.. something per litre now.
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Same here. Now pump SPC instead of MobilOriginally posted by PoRen:I pumped at SPC. Get 11% + 5% (member) discount, from 1.757 (9. That's a total discount of 16%. -
i pay in ringgit... don't usually see the rates because its so cheap already
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yalor ..... it makes comparison more difficultOriginally posted by Archirodon:Shell had done away with the discount. The rate for 98 Octane is S$1.5.. something per litre now.
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SPC really much cheaper meh? but how is the quality wise?
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My hubby calculated- SPC is cheaper. Quality same.Originally posted by hopy:SPC really much cheaper meh? but how is the quality wise? -
$1.476 after 16% (11+5) discount from $1.757 for 98.Originally posted by hopy:SPC really much cheaper meh? but how is the quality wise? -
Shell's 98 Octane is at $1.493 per litre equivalent to 14% discount only. SPC still cheaper.
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Think I will continue to use SPC.Originally posted by Archie_boy:Shell's 98 Octane is at $1.493 per litre equivalent to 14% discount only. SPC still cheaper. 
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Yesterday pumped at SPC...petrol price now at 1.837 for 98. Only give 7% (site disc) + 5% (member discount), which is 1.617. Damn expensive!
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mobil now is 6% rite?
mobil and caltex are always the first to increase prices, and last to give discounts..
thunbs up to SHELL. -
SPC dun work for my car, makes the consumption go up leh... what car u driving?Originally posted by PoRen:Think I will continue to use SPC. -
This should not happen. SPC got their petrol from SRC, Singapore Refining Corporation, same as Caltex. Sometimes oil companies also borrow from one another. Basically all the petrols and diesel are the same.Originally posted by ndsef:SPC dun work for my car, makes the consumption go up leh... what car u driving? -
But it really happened with my car, and its a corolla. I am getting better mileage on a RON 95 from Shell or Esso compared to RON 98 from SPC. Why? Arrghhh!!!! I want to change my car!!!!Originally posted by sgdiehard:This should not happen. SPC got their petrol from SRC, Singapore Refining Corporation, same as Caltex. Sometimes oil companies also borrow from one another. Basically all the petrols and diesel are the same.
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well, just last thursday at JB city square outside, from 10 pm i saw so many singapore cars, 30 cars per 5mins.
some couples, some father and small boy etc.
i figure they all must be going for the petrol.
even the causeway into JB is jam with singapore cars.
at today's price , if they pump 3/4 tank and go in to fill full tank, they still can save some money. -
Singapore is supposed to alternate with Rotterdam, as either the Number One or Number Two in being the largest and most efficient Oil Refining Center in the World.
Both places do not have any oil, but are the top refining centers with a large volume of crude oil passing through.
With the reputed astuteness of the Ruling Elite, it is hardly unbelievable that large floating oil storage of up to three to six months buffered supply do not exist.
Yet we see the pump prices fluctuating on a daily or weekly basis whenever the crude oil price move, and this is despite the existence of the crude oil being buffered as all strategic commodities are stored.
The pockets that are profiteering from the price fluctuations are the Oil Companies, and the Government which collects a heft FIFTY PERCENT TAX
This article was taken from a Malaysian site, maybe applicable to our local experience :
When looking ways to incraese my car fuel mileage efficiency, I stumble upon this information :
How Gas Price works
According to the data from US DOE (Department of energy), the petrol price is actually break down as following :
43% - Crude oil
13% - refinining cost and profits
13% - distribution, marketing and profits
31% - Taxes
And some Petrol station mark up.
It is a big suprise when in year 2004, average price for a gallon(3.785 liters) of petrol in US cost around US$ 1.79, which is close to RM1.79 per liters. That's is time when Malaysia petrol price is cost around RM1.20 per liters.
If you check the above table, you will notice that taxes represent a huge sum of the US petrol price, say we minus US 0.20 from the selling price, the cost at petrol station will be US$1.59(RM6.04) per gallon or RM1.60 per liters. Minus the 31% tax, the cost of the petrol should be around RM1.10 per literes.
So come here come the story of "Petrol subsidiaries". Although the media keep feeding us with data from ASEAN country, no single media in Malaysia are able to give us the data as what DoE of US provide.
Looking at the US DoE data, it is obvious that the petrol price of Thailand, Philipine and Indonesia is nothing but result of tax levy on the petrol.
To date, no ASEAN country government releasing single piece of data about the REAL PETROL COST. For the case of indonesia, the hikes is pretty obvious : the petrol hikes is a cumulative result of international crude oil hikes and HUGE GOVERNMENT levy.
In short, ASEAN country(except Brunei that did not impose petrol tax, while Singapore imposing less car policy) is currently riding on the international oil price to exploit the people. It is clear that crude oil price increase did TOO little to the current petrol price increase. Is this the same to Malaysia "petrol subdisidiaries". I don't know, since no ASEAN government is releasing the information.
Please leave you comment if you think my theory is flaw.
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I do agree with Atobe on this point. I for one have been wondering for the longest time why our petrol prices are so high, so we basically "manufacture" them here in Singapore. We are consuming petrol refined right over at our offshore island!!
I believe taxes are the main cost of petrol here. It is in line with the garmen's policy of allowing one to own a car, but discourage one from driving it.
Petrol prices in Singapore have always been sticky downwards, meaning, increases are often and done easily while decreases are rarely seen!! It is sad to see that the petrol discounts percentage offered actually works like the variable component of salary!! It allows petrol companies to adjust the price without getting into too much "problems" with the consumers.
I am beginning to feel the heat now, very soon I will be going for the 50% discount offered across the causeway!! -
Driving Mazda 3.Originally posted by ndsef:SPC dun work for my car, makes the consumption go up leh... what car u driving? -
Actually the Singapore Government would prefer that you continuously drive your car around more often, as they can collect more revenue from the petrol that is burnt, also from the ERP, the carparks with the Cashcard payment - that moves your funds electronically with immediate effects (from your account directly into an interim account) and also as well as from the GST when you pay your Service Bills.Originally posted by ndsef:I do agree with Atobe on this point. I for one have been wondering for the longest time why our petrol prices are so high, so we basically "manufacture" them here in Singapore. We are consuming petrol refined right over at our offshore island!!
I believe taxes are the main cost of petrol here. It is in line with the garmen's policy of allowing one to own a car, but discourage one from driving it.
Petrol prices in Singapore have always been sticky downwards, meaning, increases are often and done easily while decreases are rarely seen!! It is sad to see that the petrol discounts percentage offered actually works like the variable component of salary!! It allows petrol companies to adjust the price without getting into too much "problems" with the consumers.
I am beginning to feel the heat now, very soon I will be going for the 50% discount offered across the causeway!!
The Singapore Government is ever so helpful to make the roads unclogged for us by limiting the number of cars allowed to be sold per month with the C.O.E system.
It will then build open highways, and secondary roads, that entice you to rev up, but the Government imposed ridiculours speed limits that end up straining your car engine, forcing it to consume even more petrol.
If you cannot resist to go beyond the speed limits, they have invested in small hand-held laser cameras that can be used by one person - hiding under or on the overhead Pedestrian Bridge - to snap you as you zip (not zoom) along the open roads. These small laser cameras will need to be paid for.
So you see, there is money to be made by the Government if you drive more often in Singapore, why should they restrict you with a hefty high petrol tax ? -
It's an obvious take from left pocket to fill the right. There is never a 'no strings attached' discount/rebate from the gahmen.Originally posted by Atobe:Actually the Singapore Government would prefer that you continuously drive your car around more often, as they can collect more revenue from the petrol that is burnt, also from the ERP, the carparks with the Cashcard payment - that moves your funds electronically with immediate effects (from your account directly into an interim account) and also as well as from the GST when you pay your Service Bills.
The Singapore Government is ever so helpful to make the roads unclogged for us by limiting the number of cars allowed to be sold per month with the C.O.E system.
It will then build open highways, and secondary roads, that entice you to rev up, but the Government imposed ridiculours speed limits that end up straining your car engine, forcing it to consume even more petrol.
If you cannot resist to go beyond the speed limits, they have invested in small hand-held laser cameras that can be used by one person - hiding under or on the overhead Pedestrian Bridge - to snap you as you zip (not zoom) along the open roads. These small laser cameras will need to be paid for.
So you see, there is money to be made by the Government if you drive more often in Singapore, why should they restrict you with a hefty high petrol tax ?
Since the LTA's insistence on ERP being the only idea to solving the massive congestion on the CTE, it is left to us to interpret their actions as one of implementing a monetary cost onto consumers as a solution.
I recently paid a hefty 1.6++ for SPC, up from 1.54 per litre = almost a full 1 buck more than usual. And that was for octane 95. We certainly should be asking the questions as to who what where when and why. -
yeah if you don't drive , they still find other ways to squeeze your pockets.
hospitals bills, and children education, and 5% GST. if 5% cannot make enough to pay minister close a million, then new GST 10%.
mind you, MP allowances are also very high.
then there is this make believe NKF pitiful story to squeeze the last $5 out of the lowest income help NKF thinking NKF is dead broke.
the price if, don;t help, many will suffer as NKF make believe no money.
not to mention mediacorp get $500 000 income too, and GST again.
The university school fess will frightened most parents nowadays how to sent 2 kids to NUS with $2000 salary?
somehow someway they will squeeze to trick you to release that blood for them. last time i remember was the singtel shares, so much TV publicity. and even promote people to use CPF money to buy shrs. now rules change again after sucking most old timers CPF dry.
next is the housing rules, they will chaneg back to 80% once they cannot suck any more.