The national Fuelwatch scheme has been defeated in the Senate and the Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce (VACC) has come out in support of the Senate action in rejecting ’this flawed scheme’.

Claiming it ‘a victory of commonsense’, the VACC claims that the scheme, purported to save motorists money on fuel, would actually have resulted in higher prices [...]

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The Rudd government has received another broadside from the VACC, this time over its planned national Fuelwatch scheme. The peak automotive industry body in Victoria is calling on the recently proposed new Petrol Commissioner to abandon the flawed scheme.

The Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs, Mr Chris Bowen, will recommend Mr [...]

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Gee, talk about ‘all shoulders to the wheel’. First it was the big announcement from the Rudd-bot about Fuelwatch which is predicted to, but may not actually, save us the grand total of… (wait for it… wait for it…) 1.5 cents a litre!

Whoa, tie me down: a whole 1.5 cents, I wonder what I’ll rush [...]

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By Daniel McCoey
Fuel prices. Yes, it’s an ugly conversation that all of us seem to be having at present, and with petrol breaking the $1.60c mark—with talk of it hitting $2.00 per litre as early as next year—the stage is now being set to turn it into a scary reality.

There is light at the end [...]

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