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Thursday February 4, 2016
Motorists call for competitive Smoking in strata prices on petrol as oil tumbles
THE LEGAL LIGHT!
Tweed residents have been waiting for a decrease in fuel prices, but there’s no sign yet.
NRL’s not the only rivalry between NSW and QLD, with fuel prices considered almost 10c cheaper in QLD. THE Environment Defence Office NSW has announced a free workshop in Cabarita on Monday February 8, at the Cabarita Beach Sports Club Ball from 6-8pm. Hosted by the Caldera Environment Centre, the workshop will explain what the environemnt reforms mean and how the community can have their say and respond to the reforms.
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the root cause of the issue, despite the lowest international oil prices in more than a decade. “Clearly the market is not working as competitively as we would like it to,’’ Mr Sims said. He believes prices need to be lowered further, retailers’ margins were “6 cents or 7 cents a litre too high and international refiners’ margins were 20 cents compared to the usual 7 cents a litre”. The price for regular unleaded petrol in Australia averaged at $1.20 a litre last week, which was unchanged from early January. YOUR THOUGHTS: Do you think Tweed residentrs pay too much for petrol? Do you fill up on the Gold Coast? Send your letters and comments to editor@theweekly. net.au
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USA, you can purchase petrol for 30c a litre. “We are being conned around the price of petrol. Governments aren’t interested. Why? Because the higher the price the more taxes they collect. “Presently governments collect 61cents in tax for every dollar spent on fuel and they are loving every minute of it.” Mr Armstrong’s not alone as many comments reflect his views online and across print media. Of course as with any business the rates imposed on service stations by the government are substantial, with over half the cost going into government coffers, as service station operators continue to push for a profit on upselling products such as milk and bread. The Chairman of the ACCC Rod
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Ray Armstrong at Tweed Heads South wrote to The Weekly last week and said he was “fed up with the delays”. “Petrol prices have been over $1.20/litre throughout (early) January despite a 23 per cent fall in the price of oil in the same period,” he wrote. Crude oil prices have plummeted since June last year to below US$27.7/barrel from as high as $90/ barrel in 2014, whilst petrol prices have only fallen by 10cents/litre. Further investigation of fuel prices by The Weekly, found Gold Coast residents were paying as low $1.06/ litre (ULP E10), while Tweed servos charged as much as $1.21/L five kilometres away. “Whilst I was away on holidays, I fuelled my vehicle for as low as $1.07 a litre. When I arrived home to the
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RESIDENTS are Tweed I was paying $1.22 a litre,” Mr Sims said petrol should be about $1 a litre and should even dip below. calling for a reprieve of petrol Armstrong wrote. Mr Sims said a “lack of robust “That is a huge disparity and a huge prices as crude oil plummets but profit margin for somebody. In the competition” in the petrol market was bowser prices linger.
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RESTORE FUNDING TO TWEED VALLEY WOMEN’S SERVICE PETITION To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales. The Petition of citizens of New South Wales brings to the attention of the House • the Tweed Valley Women’s Service has provided counselling, education, mentoring, crisis accommodation, transitional housing support and cultural safety for women and children experiencing domestic violence in the Tweed Shire for 30 years.; • the Tweed Valley Women’s Service was advised on 17 December 2015 that their contract was suddenly cancelled by their lead agency On Track Community Programs meaning $580,000 in NSW State Government funding along with 13 jobs have been cut. • as a result of this funding cut the Tweed Valley Women’s Service was forced to close the doors after 30 years of providing safety, refuge and support to the women and children of the region. • the forced closure of this vital service leaves a devastating gap in services for victims of domestic violence in the Tweed Shire. The undersigned petitioners therefore ask the Legislative Assembly to • Immediately restore needed funding to the Tweed Valley Women’s Service to enable them to reopen and operate this vital service.
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