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Re: Petrol - Is the war over already?

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From: Neil Pickford
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 00:00
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Neville Anderson wrote:
> 
> Yesterday, on the way out in the afternoon, I passed the Mobil garage
> at Melba and noticed that the unleaded petrol price was 76.9 c/l,
> which is in the recent high range.
> 
> On the way home, I saw that the prices at Belconnen and Charnwood were
> the same as at Melba, and compared them with the Belconnen Gull garage
> which was 76.3 c/l, instead of the much lower prices (in the 72.* c/l
> range) that was charged when Gull was really trying to be competitive.
> 
-----snip----

On a trip thru France last year I saw a really good system.
On the motorways leading in and out of town were huge
electronic billboards that were directly linked to the prices
at each chain of petrol outlets.  

Thus Motorists are able to determine where the best price is 
and how far out of their way they have to go to get it.

Maybee we should implement this here on Northborne, Gininderra
Hindmash, Monaro, Tuggers Parkway and William Hovell.

Could be even more interesting

Neil Pickford
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From: Neil Pickford <neilp@happy.dca.gov.au>
Subject: Re: Petrol - Is the war over already?
Date: 1997/12/03
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