{"id":29968,"date":"2017-03-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/the-local-gas-cartel-ripping-off-aussie-customers\/"},"modified":"2017-03-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T00:00:00","slug":"the-local-gas-cartel-ripping-off-aussie-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-local-gas-cartel-ripping-off-aussie-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"The local gas cartel ripping off Aussie customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>A gas company \u201ccartel\u201d is forcing up the price of power in Australia, well above international prices, says an energy expert.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThe cartel of companies that control the gas supply on the east coast of Australia are intentionally restricting supply to the domestic market,\u201d the Institute for Energy Economics\u2019 Bruce Robertson told Leon Byner on FIVEAA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re forcing up the price, not to international prices as they like to tell you &#8212; they are well above international prices.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/312235551&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bruce Robertson said gas companies were getting away with inflating domestic prices \u201cbecause there\u2019s a compliant public who is not actually putting forward the right argument\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t demand that our energy is supplied to the domestic market at prices that are cheaper than the international market,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt should be cheaper because to get gas to the international market is an expense process.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/leigh-matthews-ranks-adelaide-crow-among-best-ever\"><strong>LEIGH MATTHEWS RANKS THIS ADELAIDE CROW AMONG THE BEST EVER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/commissioner-says-there-s-a-culture-problem-inside-sapol\"><strong>COMMISSIONER ON THE PROBLEM INSIDE SAPOL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gas company \u201ccartel\u201d is forcing up the price of power in Australia, well above international prices, says an energy expert. \u201cThe cartel of companies that control the gas supply on the east coast of Australia are intentionally restricting supply to the domestic market,\u201d the Institute for Energy Economics\u2019 Bruce Robertson told Leon Byner on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-29968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leon-byner","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The local gas cartel ripping off Aussie customers - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-local-gas-cartel-ripping-off-aussie-customers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The local gas cartel ripping off Aussie customers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A gas company \u201ccartel\u201d is forcing up the price of power in Australia, well above international prices, says an energy expert. \u201cThe cartel of companies that control the gas supply on the east coast of Australia are intentionally restricting supply to the domestic market,\u201d the Institute for Energy Economics\u2019 Bruce Robertson told Leon Byner on [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-local-gas-cartel-ripping-off-aussie-customers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FIVEAA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/1395FIVEaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-03-13T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/gas_0.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Tim Ashdown\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@1395FIVEaa\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@1395FIVEaa\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Tim Ashdown\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/show\\\/the-local-gas-cartel-ripping-off-aussie-customers\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/show\\\/the-local-gas-cartel-ripping-off-aussie-customers\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Tim Ashdown\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c9993afbb4e9c76944cb880fa918b687\"},\"headline\":\"The local gas cartel ripping off Aussie customers\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-03-13T00:00:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/show\\\/the-local-gas-cartel-ripping-off-aussie-customers\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":174,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/show\\\/the-local-gas-cartel-ripping-off-aussie-customers\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/03\\\/gas_0.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Leon Byner\",\"Show\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/show\\\/the-local-gas-cartel-ripping-off-aussie-customers\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/show\\\/the-local-gas-cartel-ripping-off-aussie-customers\\\/\",\"name\":\"The local gas cartel ripping off Aussie customers - FIVEAA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/show\\\/the-local-gas-cartel-ripping-off-aussie-customers\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/show\\\/the-local-gas-cartel-ripping-off-aussie-customers\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/03\\\/gas_0.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-03-13T00:00:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c9993afbb4e9c76944cb880fa918b687\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/show\\\/the-local-gas-cartel-ripping-off-aussie-customers\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/show\\\/the-local-gas-cartel-ripping-off-aussie-customers\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/show\\\/the-local-gas-cartel-ripping-off-aussie-customers\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/03\\\/gas_0.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/03\\\/gas_0.jpg\",\"width\":800,\"height\":500},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/show\\\/the-local-gas-cartel-ripping-off-aussie-customers\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The local gas cartel ripping off Aussie customers\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/\",\"name\":\"FIVEAA\",\"description\":\"Always Adelaide\",\"alternateName\":\"FIVEAA\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c9993afbb4e9c76944cb880fa918b687\",\"name\":\"Tim Ashdown\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/3d478e03918069695ae92ceb9741ab4b36830cf8102e75dd26c3949e28ad1aba?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/3d478e03918069695ae92ceb9741ab4b36830cf8102e75dd26c3949e28ad1aba?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/3d478e03918069695ae92ceb9741ab4b36830cf8102e75dd26c3949e28ad1aba?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Tim Ashdown\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/author\\\/tashdown\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The local gas cartel ripping off Aussie customers - FIVEAA","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-local-gas-cartel-ripping-off-aussie-customers\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The local gas cartel ripping off Aussie customers","og_description":"A gas company \u201ccartel\u201d is forcing up the price of power in Australia, well above international prices, says an energy expert. \u201cThe cartel of companies that control the gas supply on the east coast of Australia are intentionally restricting supply to the domestic market,\u201d the Institute for Energy Economics\u2019 Bruce Robertson told Leon Byner on [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-local-gas-cartel-ripping-off-aussie-customers\/","og_site_name":"FIVEAA","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/1395FIVEaa","article_published_time":"2017-03-13T00:00:00+00:00","og_image":[{"width":800,"height":500,"url":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/gas_0.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Tim Ashdown","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@1395FIVEaa","twitter_site":"@1395FIVEaa","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Tim Ashdown","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-local-gas-cartel-ripping-off-aussie-customers\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-local-gas-cartel-ripping-off-aussie-customers\/"},"author":{"name":"Tim Ashdown","@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/#\/schema\/person\/c9993afbb4e9c76944cb880fa918b687"},"headline":"The local gas cartel ripping off Aussie customers","datePublished":"2017-03-13T00:00:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-local-gas-cartel-ripping-off-aussie-customers\/"},"wordCount":174,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-local-gas-cartel-ripping-off-aussie-customers\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/gas_0.jpg","articleSection":["Leon Byner","Show"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-local-gas-cartel-ripping-off-aussie-customers\/","url":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-local-gas-cartel-ripping-off-aussie-customers\/","name":"The local gas cartel ripping off Aussie customers - FIVEAA","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-local-gas-cartel-ripping-off-aussie-customers\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-local-gas-cartel-ripping-off-aussie-customers\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/gas_0.jpg","datePublished":"2017-03-13T00:00:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/#\/schema\/person\/c9993afbb4e9c76944cb880fa918b687"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-local-gas-cartel-ripping-off-aussie-customers\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-local-gas-cartel-ripping-off-aussie-customers\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-local-gas-cartel-ripping-off-aussie-customers\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/gas_0.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/gas_0.jpg","width":800,"height":500},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-local-gas-cartel-ripping-off-aussie-customers\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The local gas cartel ripping off Aussie customers"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/#website","url":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/","name":"FIVEAA","description":"Always Adelaide","alternateName":"FIVEAA","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/#\/schema\/person\/c9993afbb4e9c76944cb880fa918b687","name":"Tim Ashdown","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3d478e03918069695ae92ceb9741ab4b36830cf8102e75dd26c3949e28ad1aba?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3d478e03918069695ae92ceb9741ab4b36830cf8102e75dd26c3949e28ad1aba?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3d478e03918069695ae92ceb9741ab4b36830cf8102e75dd26c3949e28ad1aba?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Tim Ashdown"},"url":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/author\/tashdown\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/gas_0.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29968"},{"taxonomy":"geo_market","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/geo_market?post=29968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}