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FuelWatch is a fuel monitoring service created by the Government of Western Australia.It was established by the Government of Western Australia in January 2001. On 2 January 2001 FuelWatch commenced daily monitoring of prices for petrol, diesel and LPG within metropolitan Perth and many regional areas in the South West of the state. [1]
With the advent of the motor car, crude oil came into demand as a fuel. By 1911 petrol surpassed kerosene in sales as the fuel for most vehicles. [1] [2]: 48 Most petroleum consumed in Australia was imported but, between 1865 and 1952, various companies made a small proportion locally, from oil shale.
EG Australia is the Australian subsidiary of British company EG Group which operates the EG Ampol chain of petrol stations, selling Ampol (formerly Caltex Australia) fuel at its stations. As of October 2022 [update] , there are over 540 EG Ampol petrol stations.
On 1 January 2012, the Nigerian government headed by president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, tried to cease the subsidy on petrol and deregulate the oil prices by announcing the new price for petrol as US$0.88/litre from the old subsidised price of US$0.406/litre (LAGOS), which in areas distant from Lagos petrol was priced at US$1.25/litre.
United Petroleum is an Australian petrol retailer and importer. It was established in 1993 and, as of October 2020 [update] , has over 450 petrol stations in Australia. [ 1 ] The company also owns Pie Face , a pie outlet it acquired in 2017 and subsequently rolled out to many of its service stations.
OTR, formerly On the Run, is an Australian chain of petrol stations and convenience stores based in South Australia.Unrelated to ExxonMobil's On the Run store branding, the OTR brand was first established in 1999 by the Shahin family (Peregrine Corporation), who were already owning and operating service stations in Adelaide since 1984.
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The economic context that led to the eventual proposition of the 1973 Prices Referendum was driven by numerous economic factors. A resource boom derived from the demands of Japanese industrialisation and increased capital inflows due to the Australian dollar being perceived as undervalued drove Australia's economy in the early 1970s. [5]