Energy dept owns up to fuel price mistake
The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy announced on
Wednesday that they mistakenly added 6 cents to the fuel price.
The price went up by 81 cents a litre at midnight on Wednesday.
But around lunchtime, the department admitted it should only have gone up by 75 cents.
“The department would like to inform the public that the petrol price that were announced on Monday 25 November where overstated by six cents,” says spokesperson for the department Robert Maake.
This means that a litre of 95 ULP in Gauteng, which currently costs to R20.35 will now cost R20.29.
Maake explains that the six cents difference was due to wage adjustments.
“The six cents difference due to the fact the adjustment of wages for service station employees have already been implemented in September. The department has informed all the stakeholders in the petroleum industry to affect the corrections immediately.”
The readjusted prices are only for both grades of petrol.
The retail price for gas remains the same with an increase of R1.83 per kilogram and the price of diesel increased by 72c and 75c per litre.
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