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Monday, 9 November 2026Queensland & New South Wales editionPublished by Pinly Fuel

Port Douglas, Queensland

Two servos 180 metres apart, 29.0 cents apart

Same unleaded, same day, $15 on a tank. The prices are public. They are just hard to read from the driver's seat.

Two states in halftone. Each dot is a patch of country, sized by how many servos it holds and inked by their typical unleaded price — green cheapest fifth, red dearest. 3,647 pumps, 9 November 2026.

PORT DOUGLAS — Two service stations 180 metres from each other were asking 271.9 and 242.9 cents for a litre of unleaded in the days to 9 November 2026, according to prices lodged with the Queensland government. On a 50-litre tank the difference is $15.

The dearer board was BP Port Douglas; the cheaper, Shell Reddy Express Port Douglas. It was the widest gap this paper found that day between servos within 450 metres of one another, in either state. Smaller ones are common: in 10 of the 14 towns in the table opposite, more than 15 cents separated the cheapest pump from the dearest.

None of this is secret. Servos in Queensland and New South Wales must report what they charge, and both governments publish it. What is hard is seeing it from behind the wheel, with the light on and one sign in view.

Pinly Fuel puts both feeds on one map. It is free and asks for no signup. It is not the only way to find these numbers, only a quick one — and some readers will find they already fill at the cheap board.

Continued on the live map →

Queensland + New South Wales

The state line, and both sides of it

The Gold Coast and the Tweed are one town to anyone who lives there, but their servos report to two governments. NSW's FuelCheck app stops at the line, and Queensland publishes a feed but has no app of its own. Pinly reads both feeds onto one map.

215 220 225 230 235 240 Queensland side 62 pumps · typical 229.9 NSW side 21 pumps · typical 231.5
Each dot is one pump, placed by its unleaded price in cents a litre and coloured on the shared two-state scale. Dashed line: the typical (median) price on that side. Within 25 km of the border at Tweed Heads, 9 November 2026.

That day the typical pump was 1.6c a litre cheaper on the Queensland side — about $0.80 on a 50 L tank. But look at how far the dots spread within each row: the servo matters more than the side, which is the reason to see both. We checked the border belief properly here

Using it

About thirty seconds, start to finish

There is nothing to set up and nothing to join. It opens on a map of where you are, and the prices are already on it.

01 · OPEN IT

The map is already there

Every servo around you, coloured by price. Pick your fuel once — unleaded, E10, premium or diesel — and it remembers.

The Pinly Fuel map with a coloured price marker on every nearby station
02 · TELL IT YOUR USUAL

Every other price becomes a difference

Save the station you normally fill at. From then on each card shows cheaper or dearer than yours, in cents and in dollars for the tank.

A station card showing minus 22 cents and minus 11 dollars against the saved station
03 · OR JUST DRIVE

Ahead shows the pumps coming up

A heading-up view of the stations coming up: price, how far ahead, and whether each is on your road or a detour. Save your usual and each shows cheaper or dearer than yours.

The Ahead drive view listing two upcoming stations with their price difference and distance

Plain dealing

It is one way to check. Here is what you get

What it is

  • Free, with no signup. It opens in your browser and can sit on your home screen like an app.
  • Government-reported prices. The figures servos are required to lodge with the Queensland and NSW feeds — not guesses typed in by other drivers.
  • Queensland and NSW on one map. One colour scale across both, so the same price looks the same either side of the border.
  • Every price shows when it was last set. Ones that look wrong are dimmed, not hidden.

What it isn't, yet

  • It does not apply your docket or loyalty discount. The price shown is the price the servo reported.
  • It does not send price-drop alerts. That would need an account, and there are none.
  • It is not in the app stores. Native iOS and Android apps are on the way.
  • It may show one small ad, in the Prices list only, to cover running costs. Never on the map. Blog posts here carry one too.

Fuel prices, explained with the data

We dig into the government price feed every week — the cycle, the myths worth busting, and where the cheap fuel actually is.

Read the blog →

Cheap fuel across Queensland and NSW — common questions

Pinly Fuel helps you find the cheapest petrol and diesel near you — right across Queensland and NSW — using live prices from the official government feeds.

How do I find the cheapest petrol or diesel near me?
Open Pinly Fuel and every nearby station drops onto a map, colour-coded by price. Pick your fuel — unleaded, E10, diesel or premium — and the cheapest pump near you is obvious at a glance, whether you are in Brisbane, Sydney or anywhere across Queensland and NSW.
Where do the fuel prices come from?
Straight from the official government fuel-price feeds — Fuel Prices Queensland and NSW FuelCheck — the same prices servos are required to report, not user-submitted guesses. Every price shows how long ago it was reported, so you know how fresh it is.
Which areas does Pinly cover?
All of Queensland and all of New South Wales, on one map — Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Cairns and Townsville; Sydney, Newcastle, Wollongong, Tweed Heads and the Northern Rivers; and everywhere in between. If a station reports to either government feed, its prices are on the map.

Next time the light comes on

Have a look before you pull in

You may find you already fill at the cheap one. Either way it takes less time than the queue for the pump.

Open the live map → Opens in your browser. Add it to your home screen if you want to keep it.

Figures on this page are a snapshot of prices as reported to the Queensland and NSW government fuel feeds on 9 November 2026. Ranges count prices reported in the three days before. The live map is what is current.

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