Nearly 100 NSW service stations fined $1,100 each over misleading petrol prices amid fuel shortage crackdown
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/05/nearly-100-nsw-service-stations-face-fines-over-misleading-petrol-prices-amid-fuel-shortage-crackdown
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Didn’t I *just* see a post about how they are complaining they don’t make any money on the fuel and people aren’t buying in store overpriced conveniences?
*Checks history*
Yep I did.
if the punishment is a small fine, less that the additional income made, then it just becomes another cost of business. Just watch this behaviour continue.
Wow, a whole thousand dollars.
Thats not really enough. It needs to be in the tens of thousands.
1100 a whole lot of nothing
That’s gonna show em!
Just for the people who don’t want to bother reading the article.
It’s an on the spot $1,100 dollar fine with larger $20k fines for individuals and $100k fines for corporations found to be gaming the system.
Anyone here know how some petrol stations in the same area can be charge 25c/L more then all the others?
Thats a light ton of bricks
My partner wasn’t wearing her seatbelt correctly. I got fined $420 for it. Nice work NSW.
Where can we find the list of these service stations so we can avoid them?
The government needs to control one of the fuel hoses with a set price that are the same everywhere so we know we are not getting ripped off when compared to others, or on the fuel sign it has the government fuel cost that cant be changed via the servo and should match the regular fuel price.
A better penalty might be to force them to sell fuel at the price they advertised.
I know this is NSW, but it pisses me off even more now that in QLD State Labour was going to bring in public owned servos to bring prices down with cheap fuel and added competition, then they were going to limit price rises to 5c a day. Both of these would have really helped with this whole situation.
Instead we got another ineffective Liberal leader in the state election.
Not even a slap on the wrist, more like a tap on the shoulder.
$1100 is barely a scratch in the profits they made misleading customers, and is essentially just a cost of doing business.
What a joke
Oooooh 1000
Hahaha what a trivial slap on the wrist
Good.