ACCC chairman Rod Sims told a conference this week that demand for gas on the east coast had “tripled virtually overnight”.
This has pushed prices up and it doesn’t help that there is little competition in Australia so companies can charge higher prices locally.
Mr Sims said there were now reports of Victorian manufacturers being offered one and two-year contracts for gas at a wholesale price of $20 per gigajoule or more, much higher than the historical average of $3-$4.
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