Shane takes up cudgels on the petrol price boards

For a mere Mayor, Shane’s doing a pretty good job as State Premier.

Incredible that it took so long for someone to think to fix this. When we first started getting rubbish quality petrol in our bowsers, the 98 was 6c more expensive than the 95, which was 6c more expensive than the 91.

This lack of advertising is solely responsible from the 12c differential being as much as 30 cents sometimes, and generally up around 24 cents.

Martlark said :

More pettifogging silly rules that save no one anything but cost us through increased administration expense.

Yeah i’m pretty certain putting the non discounted price up rather than the discounted price adds no expense whatsoever. I personally don’t care, i just fill up my car. 5c a litre for my small car is at most a few dollars. And like many who whinge about the cost of petrol, if they gave up coffee/smokes/alcohol, or caught the bus to work they’d save a hell of a lot more then a few dollars a week.

However I find it dishonest to advertise a price that you can only get if you’ve fulfilled some other obligation. Airlines and car dealers now have to display the purchase price, so can’t see why petrol stations shouldn’t.

More pettifogging silly rules that save no one anything but cost us through increased administration expense.

Gungahlin Al said :

I’d like to see the premium displayed too – so many makes require it now.

If your car only takes that, you have no choice but to pay whatever the asking price is once you are at the bowser. And the prices for it are often obscenely higher than standard unleaded.

agreed, I hate getting to the pump to find out 98 is 1.75 when 91 is 1.45 (or w/e the going price for the day is is almost always 25-30c more)

I’d like to see the premium displayed too – so many makes require it now.

If your car only takes that, you have no choice but to pay whatever the asking price is once you are at the bowser. And the prices for it are often obscenely higher than standard unleaded.

In fact that’s the case on the sign in the picture… with “contaminated muck” in small print under the ULP label.

NSW might have taken action, but what he doesn’t realise is that often, the lowest price for ULP displayed is the poison petrol, with the normal stuff a few cents more. You discover that after you’ve pulled in.

Good on ya, Shane, let’s make it genuinely cheaper to run down those vicious kangaroos!

“accurate price is advertised so consumers can make an informed decision whether or not to pull in.”
Is he going to police the size of the text on the boards too? I can see a lot of people deciding at the last minute as they get closer to the board that they don’t want to pay 2c extra and then swerving to avoid pulling in.