HOBART motorists paid Australia's highest petrol prices in March, fuel-watch group MotorMouth says.

THREATS against local conservationists served only to heighten concerns about the Tasmanian timber industry in the minds of overseas buyers, lobby group Markets for Change said yesterday.

INDEPENDENT retailers need to start a price war to bring down Tasmania's high petrol price, experts say.

TASMANIAN motorists should not expect any relief at petrol bowsers this weekend.

THOUSANDS of protesters are expected to descend on Hobart this week in one of the state's biggest ever rallies.

THE Tasmania Fire Service is urging rural and city-fringe landowners to begin fuel reduction burns soon.

PANIC spread through Bicheno yesterday on news that the town's only service station was closing for three months.

A SPATE of burns victims in Hobart has prompted authorities to warn against the dangerous practice of throwing fuel on fires.

FUEL prices may be soaring but less than half of Tasmanians buy petrol based on price, research shows.

SUPERMARKET giant Coles has rejected claims that its discount fuel outlets have lifted prices.

OPPORTUNIST petrol retailers have been accused of raising and lowering their fuel prices several times a day.

THE first step towards an alternative cleaner, greener and cheaper fuel for Tasmania was unveiled yesterday.

THE first step towards an alternative cleaner, greener and cheaper fuel for Tasmania was unveiled yesterday.

INDUSTRY experts have warned that if Coles and Woolworths continue their dominance of the local fuel industry they will drive out all competition.

THE RACT is pushing for a parliamentary inquiry into why Tasmanians consistently pay more for fuel than motorists in interstate major metropolitan cities.

TASMANIANS continued to be slugged at the petrol pump last month despite a $6 a barrel drop in the price of refined fuel in Singapore.

A FUEL reduction burn in the Huon Valley has sparked the anger of a local environment group.

THE RACT has challenged the State Government to lobby Coles and Woolworths to stop "gouging" motorists at the pump.

LABOR'S "cash for clunkers" pledge to pay motorists to scrap old fuel guzzlers has been given a cautious thumbs-up.

THE fast-growing Kingston area is set to get another big shopping centre, with the new highway bypass the catalyst.

LEAKING underground fuel tanks at a busy petrol station have spilled 30,000 litres of fuel at a Hobart suburb.

THE Hobart City Council will today conduct a fuel reduction burn on the Queens Domain.