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Several unmanned Swedish petrol stations opened the floodgates for vehicle owners to tank up totally free of charge over the weekend.

It now appears that the free flow was an organized fraud attack on unmanned petrol stations in Skåne county, southern Sweden.

Vehicle owners couldn’t believe their luck when a number of unmanned gas stations in the south of Sweden appeared to be giving away free petrol on Saturday afternoon. Cars lined up around the block to make use of the free petrol.

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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s plan to release oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve may lower crude and gasoline prices in the short term, but it could also leave the United States more vulnerable in a supply emergency.

Obama called this week for easing fuel prices by releasing some 70 million barrels of light, sweet crude from the nation’s stockpile and swapping it for less expensive heavy, sour oil.

The hope is that putting more oil on the market will push down crude prices and those savings will be passed on to consumers at the gasoline pump.

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Rising petrol prices are gouging motorists’ hip pockets. We take a look at how petrol prices are set and what you can do to reduce your fuel bills.

Tips on cutting your petrol bill

• Drive carefully. Higher speeds use more fuel. Hard acceleration or braking also burn up petrol.

• If you’re driving a manual, make sure you’re in the right gear. If your car is working too hard, it’s burning too much petrol.

• Avoid driving in peak periods. Constantly stopping and starting your car, or spending long periods idling in traffic, wastes fuel.
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A man took petrol several times from the same Tauranga service station without paying before he was finally caught, a judge was told today.

Ford Wayne Tawhara, 24, unemployed, admitted five charges of theft when he appeared before Judge Thomas Ingram in Tauranga District Court.

He also pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified.

Sergeant Sean Brennan said Tawhara helped himself to petrol costing various sums between $5.75 and $104.81 from a Fifteenth Avenue service station on March 23 and 26 and on April 18 and 22.
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Most would agree that the current petrol price is a bit of a rip-off — now some motorists are repaying the favour by stealing fuel.

A KwaZulu-Natal pump attendant was injured when a motorist ran over him while speeding away from an Empangeni petrol station without paying on Tuesday evening.

Peter Morgan, the chief executive of the Fuel Retailers’ Association, said the incident was not isolated.

“There have been about 10 similar incidents over the past month,” he said.

“Every motorist is feeling the same pain. It is not isolated to one province. As soon as fuel prices increase, motorists fill up and speed off.
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Motorists in the UK have suffered from a far higher rise in petrol prices than their European neighbours, according to a report on Wednesday.

The cost of unleaded petrol has risen by 20 per cent in the UK over the last year, a far greater increase than across the Continent, where prices have risen by just 14 per cent.

In Italy and Germany prices have risen by less than 10 per cent.

The research by the Post Office Travel Services – which has stripped out the volatile effects of exchange rates - has led to accusations that British motorists have been left out of pocket by punative tax rises. Only Dutch motorists have to pay more tax than the British, according to the AA.
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