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US$5/gallon is about the same price as our vanilla automobile juice here in NZ. We pick up avgas (half the price) from the small airport near us if we’re doing

US$5/gallon is about the same price as our vanilla automobile juice here in NZ. We pick up avgas (half the price) from the small airport near us if we’re doing strictly off-road activities in our vehicles (no fuel tax).

dreamcompiler 6y ago
Interesting. I had assumed avgas was more expensive than auto gas everywhere but I guess not.
- adwww 6y ago
  It might be before tax, but in most places on-road vehicle fuel is taxed significantly higher than avgas.
LilBytes 6y ago
Fuel in NZ is $5 NZD? Has Covid had an impact on that local price or is that standard? It's Less than $1.50 AUD across the ditch at the moment. And that's a bad day.
- solraph 6y ago
  Per gallon. $1.30 / L => $5.85 / gallon. Petrol is/was always more expensive in NZ though, around ~70c/L from memory. On the flip side, registration and insurance is much cheaper.
  - LilBytes 6y ago
    Ah, thanks! I missed the measurement (per galling to a litre). That makes more sense.
rimliu 6y ago
And cheaper than car gas here in Europe (Lithuania).
golem14 6y ago
Reminds me of Germany in (I guess) the 80s, where police was sometimes checking diesel cars on whether owners had used (lower taxed) heating oil for their cars (which is technically tax evasion). It might still be a thing.
- magahacka 6y ago
  In eastern Europe(Baltics) it is still a thing because people just bring over Diesel from Belarus or Russia by cars with big fuel tanks and low fuel consumption, so they simply cross the border and at the first fuel stop brim the tanks and go back to europe, In Belarus it is especially easy as the fuel price is mandated by government and is equal across the whole country. And police sometimes checks the fuel tank for non taxed fuel, it is either Green(Agricultural, illegal for anything else), Normal taxed, and Russian(If you can prove that it was "imported" by you then its ok) non taxed.
- looping__lui 6y ago
  They still test it a lot actually in Germany. Especially on trucks. Using heating oil instead of the diesel is a big cost advantage...

dreamcompiler 6y ago

Interesting. I had assumed avgas was more expensive than auto gas everywhere but I guess not.

adwww 6y ago
It might be before tax, but in most places on-road vehicle fuel is taxed significantly higher than avgas.

LilBytes 6y ago

Fuel in NZ is $5 NZD? Has Covid had an impact on that local price or is that standard? It's Less than $1.50 AUD across the ditch at the moment. And that's a bad day.

solraph 6y ago
Per gallon. $1.30 / L => $5.85 / gallon. Petrol is/was always more expensive in NZ though, around ~70c/L from memory. On the flip side, registration and insurance is much cheaper.
- LilBytes 6y ago
  Ah, thanks! I missed the measurement (per galling to a litre). That makes more sense.

rimliu 6y ago

And cheaper than car gas here in Europe (Lithuania).

golem14 6y ago

Reminds me of Germany in (I guess) the 80s, where police was sometimes checking diesel cars on whether owners had used (lower taxed) heating oil for their cars (which is technically tax evasion). It might still be a thing.

magahacka 6y ago
In eastern Europe(Baltics) it is still a thing because people just bring over Diesel from Belarus or Russia by cars with big fuel tanks and low fuel consumption, so they simply cross the border and at the first fuel stop brim the tanks and go back to europe, In Belarus it is especially easy as the fuel price is mandated by government and is equal across the whole country. And police sometimes checks the fuel tank for non taxed fuel, it is either Green(Agricultural, illegal for anything else), Normal taxed, and Russian(If you can prove that it was "imported" by you then its ok) non taxed.
looping__lui 6y ago
They still test it a lot actually in Germany. Especially on trucks. Using heating oil instead of the diesel is a big cost advantage...