Group forms for 'fair fuel prices'
Reports that petrol prices on the Peninsula are as much as 20 per cent or more higher than in Sydney and Newcastle has led to the creation of a group called Fair Fuel Prices for the Peninsula.
The group has created a Facebook page which gathers encourages reports of prices from drivers as they travel around NSW and beyond.
The group is considering protest action, including boycotts of local petrol stations, over what it considers to be inflated petrol prices and price fixing on the Peninsula
Dr Van Davy, who has announced he will run as an independent candidate for the Federal seat of Robertson, has supported the move.
"Many drivers are reporting a 30 cent difference per litre," he said.
Dr Davy is calling for support for local drivers.
"The Fair Fuel organisers should be congratulated and supported," he said.
"Drivers are workers with families to support.
"Fuel price gouging attacks these workers and their families.
"There is no excuse.
"It is simply greed being played out at the direct expense of working people.
"We are being slugged, unjustly, and being treated as mugs by the big oil companies.
"First, they hide behind the small extra fuel transport costs from Sydney to the Coast to rip very big extra monies from the pockets of Central Coast workers and pensioners and their families.
"Second, as international oil prices have dived steeply, we should expect the price of fuel to similarly go down.
"But, these oil companies are stacking up huge additional windfall profits by not passing on the lower costs to drivers.
"This is a Central Coast and a national problem.
"Third, as if these price gouging behaviours are not bad enough, the oil companies are managing to avoid paying taxes in Australia and as a consequence, public monies are not available for a healthy and protected Medicare, expanded dental care, properly funded public schools, a healthily funded Gosford Hospital, toll-free roads and the rest of the social wage," Dr Davy said.
Media release, 3 Jan 2016
Van Davy, candidate for Robertson
Website, 4 Jan 2016
Fair Fuel Prices for the Peninsula