An alert has been issued to Perth motorists as petrol prices across the metropolitan area are set to spike to up to 195\u00a2 a litre on Wednesday, after the Federal Government halves the fuel excise.<\/p>\n
The excise has been in place since the beginning of the US-Israel-Iran war, and had caused WA fuel prices to remain relatively low as the war threatened fuel supply.<\/p>\n
The start of the new financial year will see the excise of 32\u00a2 a litre halved, meaning prices are expected to jump by at least 16\u00a2 a litre on July 1, according to Fuel Watch.<\/p>\n
\u201cMotorists in Perth and Mandurah are advised to fill up now if they need to, with petrol prices set to rise tomorrow,\u201d a FuelWatch statement said.<\/p>\n
\u201cDrivers are also urged to only purchase the fuel they need to fill their vehicles, not to stockpile.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
FuelWatch has also urged motorists to shop around, as at least 41 outlets will still be offering petrol for under 150\u00a2 per litre, which could save at least $42 for a 60-litre.<\/p>\n
Where to find the cheapest fuel in Perth on Tuesday: Metro Midvale in the east at 139.2\u00a2 a litre;Solo Hamilton Hill in the south at 136.5\u00a2 a litre;Solo Morley in the north at 136.7\u00a2 a litre.Where to find the cheapest fuel in Perth on Wednesday: Petro Fuels Swan View in the east at 141.8\u00a2 per litre;Costco Casuarina in the south at 138.7\u00a2 a litre;Metro Wangara in the north at 139.2\u00a2 a litre.<\/p>\n
FuelWatch has reminded drivers that Costco fuel outlets are membership based.<\/p>\n
The 16\u00a2 increase is set to be in place until August 2 before prices skyrocket again, when the remaining excise discount will be completely removed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An alert has been issued to Perth motorists as petrol prices across the metropolitan area are set to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99,46,45],"class_list":["post-770037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-perth","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}