The Weekly News 5@5
Welcome to Central Coast Newspapers’ Weekly News 5@5, March 11, 2022. The lead stories from across the region in a brief audio/video format: Beaches and waterways full of debris and…
Fuel Prices
What Russia’s war means for Central Coast fuel prices
Global crude oil prices have already reached their highest levels since 2014 in response to Russia’s military incursion into Ukraine. by Vlado Vivoda, Deakin University With Russia being the world’s…
Fuel prices putting the squeeze on home budgets
Central Coast News’ video reporter Skaie Hull hit the roads today to talk to Coasties about rising fuel prices across the Central Coast. She revealed that some areas of the…
Large petrol price variations at West Gosford
Drivers along the Central Coast Highway at West Gosford have noticed a remarkable price variation of over 40c a litre in petrol prices. The independent Metro service station, located on…
Card prepared as reminder
Member for Gosford Ms Liesl Tesch is urging local residents to sign a card welcoming a new petrol station to the Peninsula. She has prepared a card welcoming the new…
Petrol is cheaper at Broken Hill than on Peninsula
[Umina] Petrol is cheaper at Broken Hill than it is on the Peninsula, according to a Blackwall resident who monitors local petrol prices. Mr Allan Nash said he started posting…
Collapse of the oil price will sink all new subsidised green projects
[Forum] There is no longer any need for anyone to understand, or accept, that all the oxygen consumed in burning all the fuel and forests is quickly returned to the…
Peninsula fuel 50 per cent higher despite crude price drop
[Umina] Fuel prices on the Peninsula were more than 50 per cent higher that prices at Tuggerah during a recent price drop in crude oil prices. The Peninsula Unleaded 91…
Big fuel price variations across the Coast
The cheapest fuel in the region is $1.27.7/litre at West Gosford. The dearest $1.59.9 at all outlets on the Woy Woy Peninsula. Confirming the long term trend of large variations…
Wicks told ACCC ‘cannot act’ on petrol prices
The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission has told the Member for Robertson Ms Lucy Wicks that it cannot act on the Peninsula’s inflated petrol prices. It would only be able…
Won’t the ACCC do what it is paid to do?
For years I have been under the delusion that we, the people of Australia, elected our local representatives to gather in Canberra and run the country. And that the Prime…
Tesch ‘thrown out’ of parliament over fuel pricing
Member for Gosford Ms Liesl Tesch said she had been “thrown out” of State Parliament recently for her strong feelings about high petrol prices on the Peninsula. “I was thrown…
Wicks expects speedy response from ACCC
Member for Robertson Ms Lucy Wicks has told Federal Parliament she looked forward to a speedy response from the ACCC regarding her concerns about petrol prices, particularly on the Peninsula….
Spiralling fuel prices spur local MPs to action
Spiralling Peninsula fuel prices have prompted action by our local Members of Parliament. Both the Federal Liberal Member for Robertson Ms Lucy Wicks and the State Labor Member for Gosford…