{"id":498374,"date":"2026-06-18T03:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/498374\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T03:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:23:13","slug":"waitomo-responds-to-comcoms-push-for-petrol-stations-to-pass-on-falling-fuel-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/498374\/","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":498375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,229382,85,46,175748,229386,229385,99985,229384,229381,229383],"class_list":["post-498374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-fuelprices","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-middleeastconflict","tag-middleeasternconflict","tag-oilprices","tag-petrol","tag-simonparham","tag-waitomo","tag-waitomogroup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}