Fuel prices in Australia rise with prices soaring – how to find cheap petrol

Australian drivers suffer as petrol prices SOAR to highest prices in nearly two years – here’s how you can find the cheapest fuel near you

  • Petrol prices in Australia have risen to the highest level in 20 months
  • This is despite a drop in demand with millions of drivers in Covid lockdowns
  • Average prices are now 154.2 cents per litre, with Sydney seeing much higher  


Petrol prices have struck their highest level in 20 months, despite cars being used less because of coronavirus lockdowns.

New figures from the Australian Institute of Petroleum showed the national pump price averaged 154.2 cents per litre in the past week, up 3.6 cents from the previous week.

To find the cheapest fuel prices near them, Australians can use special websites including PetrolSpy to find how much petrol costs locally.

Global oil prices rose in the past week due to concerns over US oil supplies.

‘Supplies of oil from the Gulf of Mexico are still disrupted by Hurricane Ida. It is estimated that around 75 per cent of Gulf offshore oil output is still halted,’ Commonwealth Securities chief economist Craig James said.

New figures from the Australian Institute of Petroleum showed the national pump price averaged 154.2 cents per litre in the past week, up 3.6 cents from the previous week (stock image)

However, the Singapore gasoline price, which is more directly linked to future petrol prices in Australia, did ease slightly.

Even so, consumer inflation expectations are on the rise.

The most recent ANZ-Roy Morgan consumer confidence survey showed inflation expectations at their highest level in almost three years at a rate of 4.7 per cent.

The weekly report will be updated on Tuesday.

Inflation expectations provide an indicator as to where price pressures may be heading, and can be used in setting prices and wages.

The consumer price index did strike an annual inflation rate of 3.8 per cent in the June quarter, its highest level in 13 years.

To find the cheapest fuel prices near them, Australians can use special websites including PetrolSpy to find how much petrol costs locally (stock image)

To find the cheapest fuel prices near them, Australians can use special websites including PetrolSpy to find how much petrol costs locally (stock image)

But this was largely the result of an unwinding in stimulus measures that were introduced during the depths of last year’s recession and price pressures are expected to ease again.

The Reserve Bank of Australia does not forecast inflation to be sustainably between the two to three per cent target before 2024 and when it expects to be able to lift the cash rate from an emergency record low of 0.1 per cent.

Global markets have been jittery for some time about an inflation spike, particularly as central banks continue to pump liquidity into the global economy faced with the negative impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

But it is not a worry shared by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg.

In an address last week he said he was not overly concerned given the Australian rate of inflation because it has been below the target band for some time.

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