Diesel Rules

[russellw]

While reading through my annual report from the BITRE (), I came across the little morsel shown in the graph below:



Basically, for the first time since detailed records were kept, the consumption of diesel fuel exceeded that of petrol - 19,043.9 megalitres against 18,643.6 megalitres. It had been closing the gap steadily since 1985 but accelerated rapidly from about 2004 onwards.

Equally interesting to note the relatively low LPG use at just over 2,000 megalitres and the fact that after small but steady improvements up to 2004 it has been in slow decline since - seen a little more clearly in the chart below.



That 2,000 megalitres represents just over 5% of the total fuel used for vehicles (not counting marine and industrial fuels).

Cheers
Russ