Fuel price NZ

With Kiwi motorists already expressing outrage this week as petrol prices broke $3 a litre, the Automobile Association has given the ominous warning they ...

"Product prices from our suppliers have climbed very significantly for us overnight, so sadly that's going to be reflected in pump prices going forward, despite our best efforts to hold it off," the spokesperson said. At one stage traffic was backed up for about a kilometre outside the station yesterday. "[There's] a whole range of products that petrochemicals are used for. Decisions regarding any appropriate changes (up or down) are based on those inputs. Ormsby had advised motorists to fill up before 6pm yesterday, when the latest price rise would kick in. The whole industry will be impacted with similar pricing."