The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #105975 Message #2184784
Posted By: Gurney
02-Nov-07 - 01:40 AM
Thread Name: BS: Petrol stations
Subject: BS: Petrol stations
All our locally owned, private fuel stations/garages have closed, eight of them, leaving only wholly owned stations of the big fuel brands.
Half of them still run the workshops, but have taken out their tanks.
When I asked the one I deal with most, he assured me that it was costing him money to sell fuel as the profit margin was so small and compliance costs so big. He was buying from an international company.
Cynic that I am, I suspect that we are in for an astonishing price rise when the big companies have a monopoly. We have had roughly a 60% price rise in the last 18 months already.
This is in New Zealand. Is the same happening where you are?