FuelWatch

What has been the experience in WA where Fuelwatch has been in for some time?

I have yet to hear a positive or negative on the WA situation that hasn't been driven by someone with an agenda.

So WA viewers has it been a good or bad experiment.

I have heard two differing views on this.

David Harding from the RACV says it won't work.

Graeme Samuel from the ACCC says it will on average save motorists 1.9 cents per litre.

These chaps do not get along at all well, each effectively calling the other a penile masseuse.

Assuming Samuel is right, this bloody great hoo ha over fuel watch has the potential to save the average motorist $1 to $2 per week. It's a complete bloody waste of time.

Jim.

i am in w.a and it has not stopped the prices going up . they should give the job to me , and i can get paid and do nothing aswell. must be mates of mates , it is just like what the goverment do about smokers . they advertise that it is bad and so on but will never do any thing about it as they are making to much money out of it . like taxes they will never be serious about that either like the old saying goes WHY CUT OFF THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU. the only time anything realy gets done is near an election, then they promise this and that , have a big spend up of our money and put pressure on interest rates as there spending gets included in our spending.

All I can say is RUDD IS FULL OF CHIT he won't listen to anyone, four gov depts told him it won't work. And the alcopops tax, this morning they are down by 40% and bottled sprits are up 25%, go figger.

Cheers Bruce

Another WA view - I don't think fuel watch is anti competitive. They only have to set the price one day in advance. The motorist can then choose where to buy the fuel.

Gone are the days of a servo setting an extremely low price, have someone announce the tip on a local radio station, and all and sundry rush to the suburb. The queue was extreme, and the fuel ran out or price went back up.

Anyone can look up on the or phone fuel watch to find the best price in the area. That is competitive. We can even register to get daily, weekly or monthly emails of prices for the fuel and places we select to make it easy.

If in the other states, you have been getting a big discount on one day of the week, then the people who need to buy on a different day would be paying more to cover the cost of the discount day.

Give fuel watch a go - pick the best price in your area, and that will put pressure on the others to come near to that servo. Politics these days is all about knocking what the other side says - ignore the politics, and use the benefits from the fuel watch scheme.

The servo proprietor has to make a living too.

Motherhen

Its a crazy thing the govt telling us that they want to save us money....so how about the feds stop pocketing so much of the money......
We use to have a sign up when fuel was 90cpl that the govt would get close to 50 cents of that.....what ever the percentage was Im assuming its the same today if not worse.....

but fuel watch...i reckon from what the people in WA say....it may be a good idea.....but I feel for the little fella's....

Laura

With a Prime Minister that says that the reason fuel is costing us so much, is that we spend too much time in traffic, what hope do we have?

Bugga !!! If they bring in Fuelwatch, what on Earth am I going to spend that $60/annum on? I might just be able to retire early with all that lovely money :((((

Reckon it's time to move on folks. The fuel price is hurting me as much as anyone else but I'm a realist. There is nothing governments can do about this - it is merely a feature of the great capitalist market system of economics, and until something better is found (and that hasn't happened since Adam Smith was a lad) we are stuck with it. Sure the government could lower or drop the excise - but that would just result in another tax somewhere else on something else - or heaven forbid a jump in income tax! The machinery of government must keep turning and that cost money. The alternative is anarchy! Get over it and move on to another issue....lift your right foot a little off the throttle, ride a pushy to work, something....anything...just stop trying to give yourselves ulcers worrying about the price of fuel.