Is petrol in Canberra too expensive? Price data suggests it may actually be too cheap

Fuel prices hit “historic highs” this month, both in Canberra and across the country.

ACT motorists paid, on average, $1.72 per litre of unleaded petrol last week.

But the big news is not how much Canberrans are paying for fuel — it’s how little we’ve been paying.

For most of the past year, the…