{"id":313895,"date":"2026-03-05T07:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T07:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/313895\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T07:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T07:27:07","slug":"long-queues-for-petrol-as-kiwis-brace-for-price-hikes-amid-middle-east-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/313895\/","title":{"rendered":"Long queues for petrol as Kiwis brace for price hikes amid Middle East conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe\u2019ve noticed this week that sales have been up 10-15% \u2026 I guess that\u2019s exacerbated today because today is a discount day. People have been waiting to fill up so that\u2019s why you\u2019re seeing queues across all our sites because it\u2019s a great price and one that we may not see for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some people brought fuel containers to take advantage of fuel prices, but Parham advised against using unsafe vessels such as milk or fizzy drink bottles.<\/p>\n

According to the video, fuel prices at Waitomo Tinakori today were $2.369\/litre for unleaded 91 petrol, $2.519\/litre for 95 and $1.669\/litre for diesel. <\/p>\n

Parham said there\u2019s definitely going to be increases in fuel prices, based on the overseas market. <\/p>\n

\u201cLooking at the Singapore market over the last couple of nights, increased prices are coming. That\u2019s in the quantum of 10-20c per litre.\u201d<\/p>\n

Parham advised customers to \u201cbe courteous to other drivers, pedestrians and cyclists\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere is plenty of fuel there. Take your time. Maybe try to shop later on in the evening or some of the quieter periods instead of the peak periods, which is driving to work or homeward-bound traffic. <\/p>\n

\u201cAlso look around. Use [fuel-finding app] Gaspy, understand what the fuel price is, and look for the deals.\u201d<\/p>\n

The increased demand comes as New Zealand\u2019s fuel retailers were warned<\/a> not to take advantage of the conflict in the Middle East by raising petrol prices. <\/p>\n

Petrol prices have surged across Australia, with people being urged not to panic-buy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe\u2019ve noticed this week that sales have been up 10-15% \u2026 I guess that\u2019s exacerbated today because today…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2840,534,806,17517,12412,138,6799,6150,2841,3806,219,68667,28164,20833,2082,100302,21325,807,2190,10110,111,139,69,22126,3333,32257,27563,14732,165],"class_list":["post-313895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-across","tag-amid","tag-as","tag-because","tag-brace","tag-business","tag-cars","tag-conflict","tag-country","tag-east","tag-economy","tag-escalating","tag-fears","tag-fill","tag-for","tag-hikes","tag-increases","tag-kiwis","tag-long","tag-middle","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-petrol","tag-price","tag-pump","tag-queues","tag-rushing","tag-their"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}