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Shipping risk is keeping petrol above $2 a litre
Freight and insurance costs on key routes are doing more to your fuel bill than the retail margin is.
Refined product lands in Australia at the end of a long supply chain, and every extra day of routing shows up at the bowser weeks later.
Insurance premiums on higher-risk routes have not normalised. Neither has the freight rate.
The discount cycle still works — it just starts from a higher floor than it did two years ago.
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