Quote Originally Posted by HarveyJ View Post
rejoice: I dunno about it driving the cost of fuel up... It'll average it out across the week I reckon, without the price spikes and troughs like we get now though... so no more tight arsed tuesday petrol prices.

Have you thought about seeing if you can get a chain onto a pre-paid scheme?
Whereby people pre-buy fuel at a certain price to hoewever many litres.
The company already has their money, so it can't bitch about them getting "free fuel" when the prices go up. Likewise, if they pre-bought the fuel, the customer is "losing" money if they use the card when prices drop below the point they bought it for.
You'd never get Safeway or Coles on it, but BP or United might be interested in the idea.
You can already buy fuel gift cards or account cards with Caltex, Ampol and BP. Not sure if the fuel spikes will ever stop though, it's just the way the beast works and the fuel watch website will hardly do that... I'm guessing the most it will do is allow for people to find the lowest spike in their area on that day so they can save 2c or something per litre (and that's if you have the time or muster the effort to check the website).