Tanker convoy highlights raw deal for fuel supplier!
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r A convoy of 30 fuel tankers descended on a filling station in Hull last week to highlight the effect that low prices at the major oil company forecourts are having on independent fuel suppliers.
The action taken by Northern-based fuel supplier Rio Petroleum was designed to show that its tankers can buy diesel for less at the Jet station in Stoneferry Road than it pays when buying in bulk from the major oil firms. The news comes amid reports that more than 150 small petrol retailers have gone out of business since the September fuel protests, with a further 100 expected to close before Christmas.
His director Peter Turner alleges that at the end of the fuel protests the government pressurised oil companies to keep forecourt prices low by offering tax concessions.
And he adds: -In the opinion of our lawyers the govern
ment's conduct is potentiall breach of European Union I competition law and the Hur Rights Act" The Office of Fair Thar (OFT) declined to comment the prospect of legal action says it is conducting an inve gation into differential prii by oil companies. It is uncl when this study will be ci pleted but a spokeswoman s OFT has received informa from most parties and already met with distribut