Australia: Diesel’s turn under the pump

THE new petrol price watchdog has promised to scrutinise soaring diesel prices, amid concern that oil companies are using the fuel to gouge profits previously earned on unleaded.

At $1.60 a litre, the average national diesel pump price is now 19 cents a litre higher than the average petrol price, compared with a price gap of just four cents mid-last year.


THE new petrol price watchdog has promised to scrutinise soaring diesel prices, amid concern that oil companies are using the fuel to gouge profits previously earned on unleaded.

At $1.60 a litre, the average national diesel pump price is now 19 cents a litre higher than the average petrol price, compared with a price gap of just four cents mid-last year.

Sydney Morning Herald