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  • Labor will establish 12 publicly-owned fuel stations if re-elected in October, with the sites to be determined by where competition is most needed across the state.
  • In his state of the state address on Tuesday, Mr Miles will also announce Labor's plan to ban petrol stations from raising the price of fuel more than once a day and a trial to cap price increases to 5 cents a litre a day.
  • Australasian Convenience and Petroleum Marketers Association chief executive Mark McKenzie told ABC Radio Brisbane it was unclear if Labor had the ability to implement the plan.
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[-] unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 4 points 4 months ago

It's realistic and it wouldn't cost the government anything. You can't build this infrastructure overnight and people are hurting financially often with very little option to take PT or cycling due to the crappy system. I'm a big fan of public transport but at the moment I still need to drive to actually get to it (which I do)

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