Petrol prices go up—Petrol prices go down
The price of petrol at 9am at my local today was 140.9; by 3.30pm the price had risen to 150.9.
The cheapest petrol I saw this week was at the Aspley Shell. It was as low as 128.9, but that was only for those holding a 4c per litre discount shopper docket.
Needless to say, the rate of customers through the Aspley servo did actually burst the station’s seams, which caused a spillage of waiting cars, ten deep, on to the busy Gympie Road .
By the following day the servo’s tanks were dry. Forced to close, the station had to lie in wait for the tankers to arrive with the much needed refill that would later sell for 155.9.
The fluctuations of petrol prices in Brisbane are definitely regular and dramatic.
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Hello and welcome to GLOBALly CENTRED. My name is Debra Adams (Deb) and I’m a postgraduate researcher. I’m researching the way news organizations use internet technologies to engage citizens with public affairs. More information about my research can be found at The Dull Fig.
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is it rely silly paying that much for petiol just to make your car move change it now!!!!
I agree that it is better not to use the car. I would much prefer to take public transport but unfortunately that is rarely a sensible option for me. We have a very poor public transport system in Brisbane and outer suburbs. Further, we don’t have the bikeway systems that other cities throughout the world have either. I wish we did—I’d prefer anything but the car.