You're not wrong.
Another ironic feat of stupidity is the fact that Australia is a nett crude oil exporter, and yet we send it to singapore to be refined, and then buy it back.
If we refined our crude onshore, we'd be paying about the same as Indonesea, which is about 40c a litre at the moment. Oh, Indo also has much better quality fuel than us too.
Luckily, I also have a diesel. There is a small company operating just north of Cairns... they import 20ft bladders of Copra (coconut palm) oil from PNG, combine it with waste veggie oil and refine it into biodiesel.
I buy it 400L at a time at $1 a litre.
The downside to that, is the countless hectares of virgin rainforest being cleared to create palm plantations...
There's no winner really, we just gotta stop burning shit to make our cars go.