Petrol Prices before a Long Weekend

Gone Bush.........i understand about the ups n downs in prices......we are somewhat lucky here in wa ...as prices are set ....at 6 am each morning at servos..and stay at that for the whole day .yes there's always a bofrence at holiday time ......just companies being greedy.......but in the eastern states prices are also set at 6am ....but...........can and are changed at any and many times a day...eg:4 servos in a small area...compete on the lowest OR .highest price .....also price changes come from...your head office.....as many times a day as they see fit................and for weekends and holidays well....you can bet between 2pm and 5 pm on any Thursday....prices will jump up 4--10 cents for the weekend and drop again Monday arvo..........and yer its a real pain in da ass you drive past somewhere and say aaaahhh ill only be a hour ill get fuel on the way back....and low and behold its 7 cents dearer than before.....no reason...war hasn't broken out in the middle east ..no ones been bombed ...and your shore you heard the price of oil went down per barrel ....but the price is up all the same

my two bob...............................Bundy

Shock, horror, John Howard has discovered that oil companies are ripping off motorists! After years of denouncing anyone who asked questions about fuel prices too!

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Er, but he didn't mention diesel, only the popular ULP. He didn't mention that he cops a bigger margin from fuel prices than the oil company either.

Is there an election in the wind?

EV700

I have just edited my response so there will be no comment at this time.

A bloke I work with will let me sound off about something or other and then say
"Lets talk about something important. What have you got for lunch"

Seems to me that this is one such occasion.

Kevin J

Don't forget that all politicitions have fuels cards that we tax payers pay for, therefore its no wonder that they don't care about the prices of fuel - because it doesn't come out of their pocket, it comes out of ours.

It would be a different story if they had to pay for their own fuel.

Unfortunately as far as political parties are concerned there is not much of a choice, Liberals aren't going to do anything about it and Labor have keep very quiet on the subject.

Karl

Although I don't like high prices on fuel, I would hate a society where Government controls the price of bread, milk, fuel, energy, etc even more. I think that was called communism.

Now I know that a free market allows price gouging, but we'll just have to put up with it, with a bit of fairly useless ACCC intervention occasionally, and every 4 years a bit of Polly brow beating to try and score some pre-election popularity points.

Just remeber - 'If you wanna play - you havt'a pay'. One of the sad realities of life.