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Fill up NOW: Urgent warning issued to Australian motorists and petrol prices expected to rise in DAYS
- Petrol prices are rising in Melbourne
- Increases are expected in the next fortnight
Melbourne motorists have been warned to fill up their vehicles now as prices will skyrocket.
The chief executive of the Australasian Convenience and Petroleum Marketers Association, Mark McKenzie, said Melbourneians have been paying an average of $1.75 per liter for unleaded fuel.
But he warned that the city’s “very long cycle” of cheap gas prices will come to an end in the next fortnight.
Fuel prices are expected to rise over the next two weeks in Melbourne (a girl is filling up her car in the photo)
‘The lowest price on the market is still around $1.68, the highest is around $2.11, and you’ve got everything in between. In fact, you’ll see prices probably settle somewhere between $1.80 and two grand,” McKenzie said. herald sun.
‘Not all service stations go up at the same time. It usually takes 10-12 days before most gas stations have raised their prices.
‘When you start to see this change, go in and buy at the cheaper end.’
Service stations in the north and east of the city have already started to pick up with Brunswick, Hawthorn and Kew paying an average of $2.09 per liter.
Meanwhile, a filling station in the northwestern suburb of Maribyrnong was found to have the highest metropolitan price at $2.11 per litre.
In Sydney, the NRM found that the average price of regular unleaded fuel rose 5.2 cents per liter last week.
He found that prices in the city should peak at $2.01 per liter and drop as low as $1.76 per liter.