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ARE the Eurobodalla’s petrol prices really too high?
To find out, we’re going on a little journey – see the town names across the bottom of our graph.
We start at Sydney and make our way down the coast to Bega, buying a litre of unleaded at each service station we come to.
We expect prices to increase the further we get from Sydney, but is that all we find?
The navy blue trace at the top of the graph takes us back to last October, well before prices started to drop.
Note how Batemans Bay has the highest price on the whole trip – 20c/l more than Sydney. Maybe the maps are wrong? Maybe Batemans Bay is really somewhere south of Bega?
Come to the end of last year, the red trace, and we see prices in Sydney have absolutely plummeted.
And Moruya is well down.
But not the Bay!
Now 37c/l dearer than Sydney!
Too high!
Things do improve considerably over the New Year period, as the pink, yellow and green traces show.
Is it perhaps just coincidence that the topic had come up for discussion in the Bay Post/Moruya Examiner?
Prices continue their downward drift through mid-January, but the Bay seems to be getting caught up again (brown and light blue traces).
The Batemans Bay Bump is back!
But not for long: the dark February 1 trace at the bottom of the has all the towns snapping into their rightful places.
Moruya is actually further from Sydney than the Bay.
Perhaps again just coincidence that some of our more bolshy local residents were conducting a boycott of Bay stations?
Yep, and good on ‘em, some would say!
So, things have been getting better, but I hear the distant rumbling of prices rising in Sydney. Watch this space.
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