Northern Tablelands MP Adam Marshall has come out swinging against fuel retailers, and not for the first time.
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While petrol prices have plummeted in our major cities due to terminal prices being slashed, retailers in the region have kept theirs high.
In Sydney unleaded 91 is averaging 111.3 cents per litre at the bowser while Brisbane drivers can purchase their fuel for as low as 107.1 cents per litre.
Northern Tablelands drivers are spending more than 20 cents per litre higher than our city counterparts.
Glen Innes has been hit the hardest with Tuesday's average at the town's bowsers sitting at 137.2 cents per litre.
Around the region, Uralla averaged 136.2, Inverell 129.9 and Moree 129.8.
"You don't have to be a rocket scientist to work out that there is cartel-like behaviour occurring in our region at the moment," Mr Marshall said.
"These people are like the mob; exploiting people and preying on the vulnerable, on people who can't shop around, particularly the elderly.
"There clearly has to be some sort of collusion because it's not as if one fuel retailer around the region in every town is very high, with just a couple of exceptions, they're all in on it, blindly committing daylight robbery, gouging people at the fuel pump.
"While prices across the country are dropping rapidly, we're seeing very little or no change here.
"Let's call it for what it is, an absolute rort."
Armidale and Guyra locals had the advantage of using the locally and independently owned Beardy Street Service Station, Guyra Fourways Service Centre and the Invergowrie General Store who are selling 91 for 105 cents.
Manager of the Beardy Street and Guyra Fourways centres, Shane Beechey, said it was "ridiculous" seeing the high cost other retailers put at their pumps.
Mr Beechey said they have kept their prices low because "that is what it should be."
"We only need to make a certain margin and that is it," he said.
"That is the way service stations should operate."
Mr Beechey said customers have been travelling from all over to his two service stations fill up to avoid going to the higher-priced major retailers.
"We have been flat out in both places, it is ridiculous," he said.
Mr Marshall has been advocating against petrol "price gouging" since 2014 and is frustrated by the lack of response by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, dubbing them a "toothless tiger."
"If the ACCC doesn't have the power to take action in a situation like this, then the law needs to be changed to give the ACCC the ability to take these guys to task," he said.
"I would encourage people to write, to email, and to make the complaints online through the ACCC.
"They should also join me in writing to their local Federal MP and the Prime Minister, demanding action be brought by the ACCC against these rogue retailers who are profiteering off the back of hard-working locals.
"The only way we're going to get some action take is if the relevant authority, which in this case is the ACCC, is actually forced to take these fuel retailers to task."