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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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[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 days ago

Occam’s razor: Global oil prices and resource scarcity are not a collusion.