Filling up will get even dearer
5:00AM Sunday June 01, 2008
By Alice Hudson
The annual bill for filling up an average family car will have risen by 50 per cent in 18 months by Christmas.
With the price of crude oil continuing to increase, experts say the cost of a litre of 91 octane unleaded fuel could hit $2.50 by the end of the year.
The AA said that would see the cost of running a 1.6 to 2-litre, 4-cylinder car for 14,000km a year reach $3095, up more than $1000 since last May.
The average family's annual petrol bill has already skyrocketed by 28 per cent, or more than $600, in a year.
Senior AA policy analyst Mark Stockdale told the Herald on Sunday it cost an extra $26.40 to fill a 60-litre vehicle with petrol and $42.60 with diesel. He said filling a typical family car with 91 octane would cost $2488 a year at current prices, compared with $1943 a year ago.
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