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11/05/2007, 3:27 PM wayfarer Joined on 11/05/2007 Posts 3 petrol prices Am I missing something? Every week or so, petrol prices seem to creep up by 1p per litre. I think there has been about 6p increase since the start of the year. Is this a government stealth tax or are prices from the Middle East rocketing. I haven't seen anything in the news.    Report

15/05/2007, 12:34 PM Jannali_Pete Joined on 15/05/2007 Posts 5 Re: petrol prices We have a similar problem here in Sydney - here you don't buy petrol on a Thursday, for some reason petrol goes up to say $1.37/litre and then gradually drops down until Monday is a good day at about $1.24/litre. People complain, TV programmes try to get to the cause, unsuccessfully, and the phenomonom (is that right) just continues on week after week after week. Jannali_Pete    Report

16/05/2007, 11:37 AM Jannali_Pete Joined on 15/05/2007 Posts 5 Re: petrol prices Here's an example of what I mentioned yesterday, this morning the price per litre was $1.26.9. I went to fill up this evening and the price at the bowser was $1.39.9 & no explanation will be issued although I did hear that the refinery workers were looking for a pay increase or something, that cannot affect the bowser price immediately.    Report

16/05/2007, 5:43 PM goldfinch Joined on 30/04/2007 Posts 4 Re: petrol prices What really annoys me is that petrol is priced in an unheard-of currency fraction, ie: 94.99p per litre. If I wanted to buy just one litre how would I pay over the .99 of a pence? It isn't possible. How do they get away with it?    Report

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