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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 strictly off-road activities in our vehicles (no fuel tax).

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

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.

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.

They still test it a lot actually in Germany. Especially on trucks. Using heating oil instead of the diesel is a big cost advantage...

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.

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.

Ah, thanks! I missed the measurement (per galling to a litre). That makes more sense.

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

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