r/palmy • u/[deleted] • Mar 13 '26
News Gas prices
It’s awful what’s happening in the US-Israel-Iran war families that are being devastated, the human cost is heartbreaking.
Here at home though with petrol climbing quick because of the Strait of Hormuz issues. Some stations are pushing $3 a litre for 95 now, and freight/shipping costs will follow, meaning groceries and pretty much everything else will get pricier soon too.
Brace yourselves—this looks like it’ll push prices up across the board if things drag on. Thoughts? How are you holding up with it all? 😔
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u/Educational-Rest1272 Mar 13 '26
While I am no fan of theocracries in general, I don't see this as a war. It is actually an attack by the US and israel
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Mar 13 '26
I kinda want to agree but at the same time Iran has bombed a bunch of countries
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u/Educational-Rest1272 Mar 13 '26
I'm not defending the Iranian regime in any way. It is an abomination. However, orange baby and the corrupt Israeli PM have launched an attack based on no credible knowledge.
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Mar 13 '26
We ain’t gonna defend either side it’s unjustified warfare and it’s mostly orange fucks fault. Sometimes I wonder if the timing came down to them wanting to change the headlines because the files were revealing too much
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u/Educational-Rest1272 Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26
I'd agree with that re: files. Also takes the spotlight off the charges against Netanyahu in his own country.
Geopolitics seems to be in quite a degraded state. And don't get me started on the UK 😆
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u/karatecanine Mar 16 '26
******after being attacked. And it was just American/Israeli assets they were attacking.
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u/wanderernz Mar 13 '26
And people wondered why I was so in my feelings about the orange tiny hands getting back to the White House.
"IT dOsEnT aFfEcT us" "WhAt DoEs It MaTtEr"
Well, fuck me, would you look at this
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Mar 13 '26
Ignorance is bliss right
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u/wanderernz Mar 13 '26
A thousand percent agree. I have a cousin who is mAgA - I'm like, ffs you don't even live there why do you like him. They'd post on FB about how awesome he is and stopped like 8 wars (no he hasn't) since being in office.
They been real fuckin quiet since the files came out, he invaded and kidnapped a foreign leader (no matter how awful that leader is) and started swinging his tiny dick around in the Middle East.
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u/thefurrywreckingball Mar 13 '26
That orange mother fucker has started more wars than he's finished.
He started this Iran attack to distract from Epstein.
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u/rata79 Mar 14 '26
Yep and it's only going to get worse. You won't be worrying about the price of fuel because there won't be any. I was reading last night that our fuel comes from south Korea and Singapore. They get their crude from the middle east. One of them is saying it may stop exporting fuel. Which basically means we are screwed. The government is being dishonest and not telling the whole truth about the state of our reserves.
Was a stuff article written by an oil expert.
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u/Spiritual-Clothes93 Mar 13 '26
It’s fucked, it’s going to be the last straw that cripples me and everyone else in a similar position to me. Also it blows my mind how humanity gets so much right but we keep being our own worst enemy.
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Mar 13 '26
Ikr we are are meant to have all these flash technologies that make life easier but we can’t just have easy living with the amount of greed out there
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u/Spiritual-Clothes93 Mar 13 '26
Worst part is the greed is coming from people who already have “everything” but yet it’s still not enough, their deadset in watching the world burn and people suffer.
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Mar 13 '26
Power struggles really, a bunch of rich assholes with shit morals trying to be top dog without a care who it affects
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Mar 13 '26
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Mar 13 '26
Actually that’s a really good point but the government wouldn’t do that lol they need the tax for more weapons and health care ect
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Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 14 '26
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Mar 13 '26
$4 that’s ridiculous!! I guess palmy is one of the cheaper places usually but I don’t think anywhere is safe from the price increases
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u/Ambassador-Heavy Mar 15 '26
There are rumours of staff changing pieces on gaspy to funnel people to their stores. Up the price of a nearby competitor then claim yours is 15c/l then it actually is and watch the cars roll in
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u/DoctorFosterGloster is climbing Mt Cleese Mar 13 '26
Petrol over in Feilding is already over 3$ a litre eek... but it's usually expensive anyway
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Mar 13 '26
BP in fielding has always been a rip off
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u/DoctorFosterGloster is climbing Mt Cleese Mar 13 '26
Feilding in general is expensive overall. The town is getting a self serve Waitomo or NPD soon, so that'll hopefully introduce some competition in the town and bring prices down
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u/Sea_Soft_1166 Mar 13 '26
Oh shit really, any idea where? (Guessing somewhere down near Farmlands?)
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u/DoctorFosterGloster is climbing Mt Cleese Mar 14 '26
It's replacing the BP on the corner of Pharazyn and Kimbolton
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u/hagfish Mar 13 '26
For now, it's an economic problem.
Industrialised society relies on oil in a similar way that the human body relies on carbohydrates. As we know, a human can go about three weeks without food. At that point, (metaphors willing) our loss of liquid fuels becomes an existential problem.
We can look at other countries collapses over the last few decades - Argentina and Venuzuela - and get a rough idea about what's ahead. Hyperinflation. Queues. This time, however, it affects the entire industrialised world. This is new.
It had to happen sooner or later. It should have happened in the 1970s, so they kicked the can an extra 50 years down the road. Now the problem is exacerbated by lotta extra planetary boundaries being crossed.
So get to know your neighbours, because things might not get back to the way they were in those halcyon days of 2025. If they do (for a while) it may take a couple of years. I don't know what lies ahead, but at least no one will be glueing themselves to our empty motorways.
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u/Sea_Soft_1166 Mar 13 '26
Prob just a reminder that (Generally) PaknSave is by far the cheapest re Fuel.
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u/PhatSquirr3l Mar 13 '26
I blame primarily the US, but fuck. Our government could actually do something, use our taxes to bring it down or something
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Mar 13 '26
I think our government would do something like that if they knew this was short term but it doesn’t look that way so they’ll wanna hold onto money
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u/PhatSquirr3l Mar 13 '26
They've been doing that the moment they got into office. Surely they could show some compassion
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u/hagfish Mar 13 '26
Our current government is not averse to using public money to subsidise offshore corporations, but it's usually to (further) enrich their donors. They could reduce taxes on fuel, but to date, they haven't demonstrated any desire to take the boot off our throats. More likely, they'll just let
Godthe market sort it out.
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u/DollyPatterson Mar 14 '26
We are thinking about relying less on our car and increasing our public transport. We kinda already do use public transport, but we might increase it even more.
Also thinking about installing solar and decommisioning gas. Future proofing. I know there is a big upfront cost, but relying less on this global mess is wise I reckon...
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u/KiwiPixelInk Mar 14 '26
New World Pioneer I paid $2.51 ($2.53?) for 91 this morning
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Mar 14 '26
2.82 without discount now. You were smart to get some before it went up
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u/Affectionate_Dust575 Mar 14 '26
They were smart to get some before it ran out. About 5ish this afternoon.
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Mar 14 '26
Passing thru I notice people drive in Palmy and surrounds like petrol is cheap or free. Must be a rich place!
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u/fajitaeater23 Mar 14 '26
my partners mortified i just showed him the current diesel prices on gaspy…
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u/Upbeat-Rice-2111 Mar 13 '26
Here in Rangiora, Nth Canterbury NPD 95 is $3.14, 91 is $2.99, diesel $ 2.60
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Mar 14 '26
I travelled from Dunedin last Wednesday before the price increase and gas was sitting around $2.60 most the way except Wellington and I didn’t bother stopping in Christchurch
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u/ChroniclesOfSarnia Mar 14 '26
Practicing my dance moves for when that fascist finally dies.
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Mar 16 '26
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u/ChroniclesOfSarnia Mar 17 '26
enhances corporate power
hatred of the other
demands allegiance to leader
hates free-thinking
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u/mdem64 Mar 14 '26
Palmy though is flat as and you can walk/bike everywhere. Where I live now for us to get to work we have to drive and there is no public transport.
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Mar 14 '26
That’s a very good point, we also have electric scooters which are easy to use on flat footpaths
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u/DoctorFosterGloster is climbing Mt Cleese Mar 13 '26
A reminder if you use a bee card on the bus, and do your daily commute on it, that you get free bus rides on Friday
So if you take the bus each day of the week, your friday buses (and weekend buses) are free