Product Comparison (within Special Reports)
Alternative fuels |
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With petrol prices now over $1.50 per litre, filling the family car is probably costing you more than $70 – a figure you would never have believed possible a few months ago. What happens when oil hits US$100 a barrel as now most analysts predict it will? Or if the Kiwi dollar falls fifteen percent against the US dollar, as is expected sometime this year? Either of these events would see petrol surge to a mind-blowing $2.00 per litre. Even the farmer’s old friend, diesel, is already over $1.00 a litre and climbing. When road user charges are added, diesel no longer is a cheap alternative to petrol... |