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Give your friendly servo a plug!

Jul 09 12:59am

After years of the big oil companies shovelling enormous profits overseas and swallowing independent operators, the little servos are fighting back.

And we're here to help.

Soapbox message from Neil

I have an answer on petrol prices. Floated it last week and it is taking off. I am asking independent stations to cut their price by ten cents a litre for one hour – a happy hour. They are getting sponsorship from local businesses and we help promote it. Everybody is happy: motorists get cheap fuel, service stations get repeat business and local chops get great promotion for a small amount. We have had several in Melbourne, one in Deneliquin, Warnambool and now others promised for Melbourne later this week. Seems to be working...

So tell your local independent servo to start their own happy hour - and while you're at it,

Give your favourite servo a plug below, telling us what you love about them....

11 Comments Report Abuse

1. mulqueeny12 - Jul 09 07:40am

All this money being spent and worry the people living in qld are feeling about Dennis Ferguson why dosnt someone interview the so called judge who let this person out a free man because he wouldnt get a fair trial I STILL FIND THIS HARD TO BELIEVE Sack the judge and put this man back in court

2. stephanjelenic - Jul 09 07:54am

I am sorry but there is no favourite srevo in Campbelltown.There just isn't any competition between them they are on average 5 to 10 cents a litre dearer then most other suburbs.

3. m.jase001 - Jul 09 07:17pm

I can never find cheaper petrol prices in Sydney then what I see them on fuelwatch.wa.gov.au.

And fuel should be cheaper in Sydney then in WA.

When will we have fuelwatch in Sydney??

4. m.jase001 - Jul 09 07:24pm

This is a really bad idea. People are not going to rush to buy fuel in this one hour of the day.

The result is that petrol stations will be charging 10 cents less to people who would have gone their regardless.

Happy hour would only be during a quiet period and only if consumer volume increased.

5. m.jase001 - Jul 09 07:49pm

6. synderlish - Jul 10 08:37am

Just this very morning my husband was going to work to discover his front Number plate was gone!..
He rang the police and they just said its not old news and ppl are stealing them to steal fuel, but down and make a statement...
This is the start of chaos!!. IPSWICH qld

7. jmoufferrige - Jul 11 08:07am

How can you possibly narrow down your search to a favourite servo? These 4c vouchers off petrol from woolworths is a load of **** we end up spending that extra few dollars to get them sometimes and then when go fill the tank with $50 we get around $1 off. My solution simple convert to gas!

8. kenningtonroberta - Jul 11 11:11am

I think its a cheek to as for a favourite servo, if you can find one in WA where deisel is selling for $1.97 (BP) all servo's are out to rip the public off with big oil companies behind them, take the GST off and maybe we will have happier servo's, 4c off from big s/markets total rip off

9. gogirlbettina - Aug 22 11:17pm

There's a good little servo/fruit stall at Murwillumbah (forgot name) they are always 3c cheaper than your big servo's and they sell local good fruit n veg's. But travel 20 minutes to Tweed Heads/Banora Point you'll get fuel up to 10c cheaper. Face it consumers get ripped off all the time.

10. gogirlbettina - Aug 22 11:32pm

A fav servo? forget it, we chase cheaper prices, get ripped off all corners, pay more get less, wages lousy in the country, happy hour at servos? too many will miss out. Give us a break pls. Drop
GST, happy customers?-maybe!

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