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[DavidT]

David...the rotten egg smell is more than likely Hydrogen Sulfide ..a by product of the combustion of unleaded fuel. I would be having the car checked..could be an ignition fault or some other engine fault..not the fuel.

WOW lukily i am getting the car serviced next week, i will have them check that out, i appreciate you letting me know that, it could avert problems with the Korean beast

Cheers,

David.

[EDIT] It still doesnt explain though why it doesnt do it with other brands, but none-the-less i will get it checked out, but i must say you got me really thinking hard about this now, i cant have teh car break down, the boat is too heavy to carry to the ramp ???

[klyons]

DavidT

A refinery is a processing and storage plant

They have a lot of crude oil, inc a pipeline from Moonie that caused a bit of a problem not that long age. IIRC their web site refers to a refinery. Perhaps they dont refine petrol, just oils? ???

Kev

[hicksy]

bignick,
After reading all these posts I would think twice about using those fuel dockets you have.
Hicksy

[DavidT]

DavidT

A refinery is a processing and storage plant

They have a lot of crude oil, inc a pipeline from Moonie that caused a bit of a problem not that long age. IIRC their web site refers to a refinery. Perhaps they dont refine petrol, just oils? ???

Kev

Kwel your right, so much has changed since working at the gate there yers ago, they refine oil, and process the incoming fuel from over seas, i was even told they even refine some of their own fuel there now, the world is an ever changing place.

Cheers,

David.

[Craftsman]

When Coles were negotiating with Shell the CEO of Woolies made numerous claims that they were unworried. As WW sourced cheaper fuel from Asia they could afford to sell at a 6c per litre discount, Coles' Shell deal meant they could only afford 4c before they started losing money.
However the strength of the Coles deal lay in the fact that there were a hell of alot more Shell outlets than WW ones. WW quickly raced to do a deal with Caltex to match the Coles/Shell outlets. So I'd say at the co-branded WW/Caltex stores they've the same agreement as Coles/Shell, ie 4c only. But at WW only, cheaper fuel supplied, outlets they're still making that 2c per litre extra.
I've had no problems with WW fuel but we shop at Bilo so use Shell fuel most of the time anyway.

As for the general question of whether we're shafted by supermarkets? Yes we are. We were buying 3L milk at Bilo for $3.30, a new Aldi opened across the road and what do you know, suddenly the price for 3L of milk drops by 50c. Same thing happened with bread, dropped 40c per loaf.
Competition is a good thing.