Simon Bridges says the weirdest things – petrol prices

• mickysavage
• 6 years ago
• Categories: Abuse of power, energy, making shit up, national, Politics, same old national, Simon Bridges, social media lolz, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up

For a while Simon Bridges has been trying to create a narrative about petrol prices.

But not in Auckland where a healthy dose of competition is keeping prices down.

And not according to BP.  From Hamish Rutherford at Stuff three days ago:

BP said the latest increase was “predominantly due to an increase in the cost of product, coupled with the recent exchange rate weakening”.

A spokeswoman for Z Energy said the price of crude oil had risen around US$5 (NZ$7.47) and was now trading at more than US$75.

“While the Kiwi [dollar] is up slightly in the last few days, it is down 6cents [against the US$) in the last couple of months and has been a big driver of price increases recently.”

I suspect this is going to become a regular post …