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Petrol prices are soaring in sync: collusion or coincidence? (infosec.pub)
submitted 4 days ago by arbilp3@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone
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The oil crisis has not only caused petrol prices to soar, it has revealed just how little competition there is among the big oil companies. A couple weeks ago the ACCC announced that it would be looking into uncompetitive behaviour by petrol companies in the rural areas.

The article shows how petrol price rises have been affected in different parts of Australia.

https://thepoint.com.au/news/260327-petrol-prices-are-soaring-in-sync-collusion-or-coincidence

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[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 days ago

Oh, there is definitely price collusion happening - just take one look at the way the Oil futures contracts are traded, and the massive bets being placed on sites like Kalshi and Polimarket.

But that’s impacting every nation, not just us - the leash is getting yanked much higher up the food chain than people like to point the finger here domestically at Shell/BP etc. & all thanks to the US and Israeli attacks on Iran damaging or destroying something like ~40% of all Middle East oil refining capacity.

Bit of a tangent, but I honestly think we need to step out from behind the US’s skirt at some point, they have proven to no longer be a reliable and trustworthy partner.

But what do we do beyond that, to ensure our national sovereignty - and prevent us getting Ukraine’d or Iran’d - short of developing and stockpiling our own nuclear arsenal?