How far can you get on $50 petrol? Use the interactive to check your commute.
At current fuel prices, people in Victoria are paying $629 more over the year to drive to work than they did in 2019-2020.
In Victoria, people who commute to work in a car drove, on average, a total of 6900 kilometres each over the 12 months to June 30, 2020, according to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics figures. This calculation doesn’t take the halving of the fuel excise in March 2022 into account. The tax, which usually amounts to an additional 44.2 cents per litre of fuel, was halved to 22.1 cents per litre on March 30. However, Australians are expected to go back to paying the full excise on September 28, 2022, which will likely lead to a jump in fuel prices.
For the average car commuter in Greater Melbourne, who travels 16.58 kilometres to work , a $50 refill will now get you 13 one-way trips to work, compared to 21.5 trips in 2019-20.And if prices reached 272 cents per litre in 2023, $50 would get you 10.7 one-way trips to work, about 11 fewer trips than it got you in 2019-20.
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