00:01Motorists in New South Wales are being urged to dob in petrol stations for misleading prices
00:07as a state government crackdown sees almost 100 petrol stations across New South Wales issued penalty notices.
00:14New South Wales Fair Trading officers carried out inspections across 1,800 of the 2,400 service stations across New
00:22South Wales in the last week
00:23to ensure providers were not engaging in misleading pricing and to combat suspected price exploitation following the fuel excise cuts.
00:32During the Blitz there were 93 penalty notices issued with at least 24 fines supported by Consumer Reports.
00:40Most penalties were related to prices at the bowser differing from those listed on the New South Wales Fuel Check
00:46app,
00:47a tool that tracks petrol prices in real time.
00:49Penalties for those who were found to have fallen foul include $1,000 on the spot fines, $22,000 fines
00:57for an individual
00:58and up to $110,000 for a corporation.
01:02The government says motorists will now be deputised and given powers to report service stations
01:08that advertise misleading fuel prices via the Fuel Check app and website.
01:12Users of the Fuel Check app have jumped from around 10,000 daily users to 500,000 daily users by
01:19late March with motorists scrambling to find the cheapest fuel.
01:24The government will be injecting an extra $2.2 million into the app and its website to help broaden its
01:31ability to collect more data.
01:33While around 75% of all service stations in New South Wales were checked by Fair Trading officers by the
01:40beginning of April,
01:41petrol station owners say they're losing money, not making it, over fuel price rises.
01:47At the same time, the union who are responsible for service station workers say they've seen a spike in abuse
01:54by customers since fuel prices began to rise.
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