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MEDIA RELEASE
NICK XENOPHON M.L.C. INDEPENDENT NO POKIES
MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL 19th May 2004
SA
MOTORISTS COULD SAVE UP TO $75 MILLION A YEAR MOTORISTS
WON’T BE FUELLED AGAIN UNDER ‘FUELWATCH’ PLAN
Move for SA to follow successful WA fuel watchdog.
SA
Motorists will know the price of petrol a day in advance – and fixed for 24
hours – under proposed legislation to be introduced into SA Parliament later
this month.
Petrol
prices in
Mr.
Xenophon said:
“SA
motorists are fed up with wildly fluctuating petrol prices.
Adopting the WA FuelWatch
scheme here will empower motorists with the information needed to get the best
deal. Requiring petrol stations by
law to fix prices for 24 hours prevents the current farce of petrol prices
changing in the blink of an eye.”
Mr.
Xenophon said he had instructed Parliamentary Counsel to draft legislation to be
introduced in the week after the State Budget.
The legislation will also contain other elements of the WA law which
requires greater transparency of the setting of wholesale prices by big oil
companies, as well as giving wide ranging investigative and information
gathering powers for a Prices Commissioner.
He will also advertise to seek public submissions from motorists and the
industry on the proposal.
Written and authorised by Nick Xenophon, 653 Lower North East Road, Paradise, SA 5075 |