How much for petrol? Where to avoid filling up

A report on petrol and diesel prices in the latest quarter of 2024 from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has highlighted the towns that pay a higher average price at the bowser.

Motorists paid a whopping 242.3 cents per litre when refuelling in the coastal Queensland mining town of Weipa.

In Broome, on the other side of the country, the average price for petrol was 239.6 cents per litre in the March quarter.

ACCC commissioner Anna Brakey said that higher daily average petrol prices in April 2024 followed increases in international refined petrol prices.

"An upward trend in crude oil prices in the quarter was influenced by a number of international factors including conflict and geo-political tension in the Middle East, a rise in attacks on energy facilities in Russia and Ukraine and threats to shipping lanes in the Red Sea," Ms Brakey said.

Average retail diesel prices decreased by more than 10 cents per litre in all capital cities, the ACCC report said.

Ms Brakey recommmended fuel price apps and websites to find lower priced retailers in regional areas.

Nowra in NSW was one of the luckier towns with a lower average fuel price of 178.2 cents per litre.

Motorists in Miles in the Western Downs region of Queensland paid just 175.5 cents per litre while Dalby, 126 kilometres east, had an average fuel price of 179 cents per litre.

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