Queensland Rugby League (QRL) have announced Shell V-Power as the men’s and women’s Maroons major sponsor for 2021. The three-year deal includes former Maroon Petero Civoniceva acting as an ambassador between the two brands. Civoniceva will star in a video clip alongside newly-appointed Maroons coach, Paul Green, in an advertisement for Shell V-Power, where the former Australian prop laughs off a “seventy cents a litre” quip at a petrol station, being a humorous take on […]
QRL Sign With Shell V-Power As Major Sponsor For Next Three Years
Sales of brand-new petrol and diesel cars are set to be banned in Europe in the coming years, according to nine member countries. A report from industry outlet Automotive News says the European Commission – the branch of the European Union (EU) responsible for proposing and implementing legislation – is preparing to set a date which would end the sale of cars and vans with traditional internal-combustion engines. A handful of municipalities around the world […]
A federal government plan to pay oil refineries for operating in Australia could increase petrol prices for motorists and create competition issues, ACCC chair Rod Sims has warned. Energy Minister Angus Taylor is putting the finishing touches on a proposal to pay oil companies for every litre of transport fuel they produce locally in a bid to boost Australia’s fuel security. But while Mr Taylor claims the policy, which will be funded through a tax […]
Petrol prices in Australia’s five largest cities stabilised at the end of 2020 after an unpredictable year and petrol sales volumes continued to recover from their earlier pandemic-driven slump. That’s according to the ACCC’s latest petrol monitoring report which shows the average retail price for petrol in the December quarter 2020 across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth was 121.4 cents per litre (cpl), a decrease of only 0.7 cpl from the previous quarter. Of the five […]
ACCC weighs in on fuel security, petrol sales
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Petrol prices in Australia’s five largest cities stabilised at the end of 2020 after an unpredictable year and petrol sales volumes continued to recover from their earlier pandemic-driven slump, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has reported. Average retail price for petrol in December quarter 2020 across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth was 121.4 cents per litre (cpl), a decrease of only 0.7 cpl from the previous quarter. Of the five capital cities, […]