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WA's consumer watchdog has taken a servo chain to the Supreme Court, alleging petrol sold as Premium 95 and 98 tested as regular 91. The chain denies it, and the case raises a question every motorist should ask: who checks what's in the tank?
Geraldton's typical unleaded price fell from 239.9 to 216.9 in ten days after six major brand servos ended a month at 239.9. Metro and Atlas were on 205.9 on Friday, while seven servos including Caltex Glenfield were still near 230.
Five servos in Fulham, Seaton, Grange and West Beach are holding unleaded at 219.9 while X Convenience Brooklyn Park, 2.7 km east along Henley Beach Road, sells at 201.5. OTR's own Fulham and Underdale sites are now 16.5 cents apart, up from 6.5 cents ten days ago.
Independent Dalmeny cut unleaded 10 cents to 229.9 this morning, while Narooma's three servos 5.5 km south are still on 239.9, the price they have held since late October. Sydney's wholesale price has fallen 26.5 cents since 2nd Nov, so here is why small town prices rise like rockets and fall like feathers.
Yarrawonga's four servos held unleaded at 255.9 or above for a month, and three have now cut to 248.9. Wangaratta, about 50 km away, sells it at 219.5, and the same EG Ampol brand is 27 cents cheaper there.
Australia is the world's biggest tallow exporter and sends about 80 per cent of it to the US for renewable fuel, while importing about 90 per cent of its own diesel. Here's what the Lytton renewable diesel plan and a possible fuel mandate could mean at the bowser.
Between 3:51pm and 4:00pm on Wednesday, 23 TAS Petroleum servos from Queenstown to St Helens cut unleaded to 219.9, the lowest price in Tasmania. Wholesale fell 27.0 cents since 2nd Nov, while the state median fell 14.0.
Eight servos in Fyshwick and Queanbeyan cut unleaded to between 216.9 and 217.9 on Wednesday, while 29 of 53 ACT servos sit on 241.8 or 241.9. Here is how wholesale costs, network pricing and the servo next door explain a 25 cent gap.
Wholesale petrol in Darwin has fallen 22.8 cents in eight days, but the median unleaded price has dropped just 4 cents. Most of that came in two identical 2 cent steps taken by dozens of servos on the same mornings.
Shell Express Birkdale and EG Ampol Birkdale, 407 metres apart, have matched each other's unleaded cuts down to 209.9 and 211.9. In Victoria Point and Redland Bay, 12 to 15 km away, every servo is still on 234.9 or 235.9.
Viva Energy plans to strip staff from about 100 servos, starting with Warrnambool and Hamilton next month. Ampol's unstaffed U-GO sites show what that can mean for prices, and why cash is the catch.
134 of 460 Perth servos are selling unleaded under 200 today, up from four on Monday, and the city's median of 203.9 is the lowest since 8th September. Reddy Express, which usually sits out the Tuesday low, cut all 55 sites and now sits under BP.
Adelaide's wholesale unleaded price fell 20.5 cents a litre in the week to Monday, but the median bowser price has dropped only 9 cents, to 217.9. Here's why the lag happens, where the cuts have gone furthest, and why diesel has less still to come.
Three servos on the Hume Highway around Lansvale share Sydney's lowest unleaded price this morning at 207.5, with E10 at 203.5. Up the M4, EG Ampol and 7 Eleven in Emu Plains are still on 239.9, 18 and 16 cents above the same brands in Blacktown.
Sandfly General Store and TAS Petroleum Grove are both selling unleaded at 229.9, the lowest price in Tasmania, after matching 13 cent cuts. Servos in Margate and Snug, 7 to 11 km from Sandfly, are on 247.9 and 249.9.
EG Ampol Currimundi cut unleaded to 227.9 this morning, while EG Ampol Caloundra on Caloundra Road, 2.7 km away, holds 243.9. The two sites were level on 8th Oct, and the 16 cent gap is now the widest in the data since July.
Since 1 November, petrol made at Viva Energy's Geelong refinery has been exempt from Victoria's summer vapour pressure limits, after April's fire damaged equipment needed to make summer blend. Here's what the rule does, why it was waived and what it means for your car and your fuel bill.
Vibe Piara Waters (199.7) and Atlas Fuel Forrestdale (199.9), 1.5 km apart, are the first Perth servos under 200 for unleaded since 15 September. Perth's Saturday median has eased to 219.9, level with the Tuesday low of 27 October.
Mobil Hastings River and the Ampol Foodary 212 metres away have changed E10 prices 29 times since 5 October, often undercutting by a tenth of a cent, and sit near 230. BP Gateway on the highway moved three times and was on 249.5, and the economics explain why.
Seven servos in Darwin's suburbs are selling unleaded at 235.5, while none of the 20 from Wishart through Palmerston to Coolalinga is below 246.5. Every brand with sites on both sides lists a lower price in Darwin, with United's gap at 12.4 cents.
Brent crude has dropped about US$18 a barrel in ten days on hopes of a deal with Iran, but October's rise is still working through Australian wholesale prices. Here's when petrol should start to ease, and why diesel will take the longest to follow.
The nine servos across Kadina, Wallaroo and Moonta have a median unleaded price of 245.9, just 1 cent under mid October, while Adelaide's median fell 14 cents to 225.9. The gap between the Copper Coast and the city has gone from 7 cents to 20.
All six servos in Moranbah are on exactly 272.9 for unleaded, 33 cents above Mackay, after moving together through 13 rises and a single 3 cent cut since September. Petrolmate looks at who moves first and how the gap to the coast more than doubled.
Five South Gippsland servos cut unleaded from 243.9 to 239.9 within two minutes on Monday, their third matching step in a fortnight. The gap to the Melbourne median has shrunk from 12 cents in late October to 3 cents today.