FILE - This Sept. 22, 1942 black-and-white file photo shows Aviatrix Nancy Harkness Love, director of the Women's Auxiliary Ferry Squadron (WAFS), and Col. Robert H. Baker, commanding officer, inspect the first contingent of women pilots in the WAFS at the New Castle Army Air Base, Del. Women served and died on the nation’s battlefields from the first. They were nurses and cooks, spies and couriers in the Revolutionary War. Some disguised themselves as men to fight for the Union or the Confederacy. Yet the U.S. military’s official acceptance of women in combat took more than two centuries. New roles for females were doled out fitfully _ whenever commanders got in a bind and realized they needed women’s help. A look at milestones on the way to lifting the ban on women in ground combat. (AP Photo, File)
Experts see higher fuel prices for drivers
Published: 06:16:02 AM, Mon 11 February 2013 UTC
Motorists can expect a further squeeze at the petrol pump with fuel prices tipped to rise by up to three cents a litre over the next fortnight as demand for oil rises on an improving global economy.
CommSec economist Savanth Sebastian says a healing world economy will lead to higher fuel prices.
"The bottom line is that motorists will end up paying more to fill up," he said in an investor note on Monday.
Petrol prices were tipped to be two to three cents higher over the next fortnight, Mr Sebastian said.
The average household monthly fuel bill had risen by $10 to $173 in the past month, he said.
Mr Sebastian said the key Singapore gasoline price had risen by $4.85 (3.9 per cent) last week to a 10-month high of $130.26 a barrel in Australian dollar terms.
The Australian Institute of Petroleum on Monday said the national unleaded fuel price rose by an average 2.2 cents a litre to 146.2 cents in the week ending on February 10.
The average metropolitan price rose 1.9 cents a litre to 144.5 cents a litre, while the regional price rose 3.1 cents a litre to 149.8 cents.
Adelaide had the cheapest unleaded petrol last week, down 0.9 cents to 136.1 cents a litre, while Darwin remained the dearest, up 1.9 cents at 161.3 cents a litre.
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