City v Regional, Petrol Rip off

[Neale]

I regularly drive between Bathurst & Sydney & I have noticed recently that the price of fuel has dropped significantly in metro Sydney, yet the price in Bathurst hasnt really changed.

It all came to a head for me today when I filled up at Medlow Bath for $1.24



Then when I got back into Bathurst & the price was $1.42


overall thats 18c difference, or if your filling up a 55L tank thats $9.90 difference

I am only using United as a direct comparison because thats where bought from, the other petrol stations were about the same prices.

So I did a little reasearch & had a look at the average fuel price difference between Sydney & Bathurst.
I found a site that has information compiled by "Orima Reasearch" (http://www.aip.com.au/pricing/retail/ulp/nsw.htm), that has some information on the average fuel prices.

Here are a couple of graphs to illustrate the price differences of fuel between Sydney & Bathurst over the last 12 weeks

Sydney
$1.50 to $1.28 which is a 22c drop


Bathurst
Dropped from $1.53 to $1.48 only 5c


Then there is the average prices for Regional NSW
$1.54 to $1.42 which is only a 12c drop


I can understand the price being slightly higher in regional areas because of the cost to transport the goods etc, but Im feeling a little ripped off that Sydney gets the price drop passed on but Regional NSW doesnt. Im sure if the cost of fuel went up they would pass that on.

Im feeling like going to the local MP & finding out if there is anything that can be done.