{"id":505371,"date":"2026-06-18T03:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/505371\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T03:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:17:14","slug":"waitomo-responds-to-comcoms-push-for-petrol-stations-to-pass-on-falling-fuel-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/505371\/","title":{"rendered":"Waitomo responds to ComCom&#8217;s push for petrol stations to pass on falling fuel prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials are continuing to closely monitor petrol stations to ensure any fall in global oil prices is passed on to Kiwi consumers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Commerce Commission says it was reasonable for businesses to raise their prices as wholesale prices rose.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But it says they also need to reduce prices as wholesale prices fall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Waitomo Fuel CEO Simon Parham told Mike Hosking that&#8217;s exactly what they&#8217;re doing \u2013 they\u2019re now selling 91 at below $3 per litre across their whole network.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He says often people are hyper-aware when prices go up but then loose attention as prices do down. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LISTEN ABOVE\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials are continuing to closely monitor petrol stations to ensure any fall in global oil prices is passed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,216014,61,60,166698,216018,216017,63462,216016,9925,216015],"class_list":["post-505371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-fuelprices","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-middleeastconflict","tag-middleeasternconflict","tag-oilprices","tag-petrol","tag-simonparham","tag-waitomo","tag-waitomogroup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}