A drivers' group will launch a survey today inviting the public to choose an oil company to boycott as a punishment for their slowness in reducing fuel prices in the wake of lower oil prices.
The Fuel Price Concerning Transportation Joint Conference says cuts in fuel prices are not keeping pace with the fall in oil prices despite three reductions in a month - the most recent announced yesterday.
Conference spokesman Chaing Chi-wai said he would ask newspapers to collect readers' opinions for the next two weeks. The group, which has tens of thousands of members, would then boycott the selected company for up to three months.
The group had planned to pick a target itself yesterday, but changed its mind as it did not want to risk the suspicion that it was singling out a particular firm for its own benefit.
'We'd better not raise any unnecessary doubts ... so we will let the public [make the choice] for us,' Mr Chaing said.
The group's move came as three companies said they would reduce petrol and diesel prices at midnight.
Sinopec reduced diesel prices by 2 cents to HK$10.30 a litre, while Shell and Caltex cut prices by 4 cents to HK$10.10 a litre. Petrol prices for Caltex and Sinopec were reduced by 25 cents to a range of HK$15.39 to HK$16.24 a litre. Shell, meanwhile, cut petrol prices by 2 cents to between HK$15.44 and HK$16.29 a litre.
