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Anyone know why fuels companies are allowed to NOT display the price of 95 and 98 Octane apart from at the actual pump? The only prices on large road displays for some years have been for 91 and diesel.

Regulations only require service stations to display the price of all fuels at the pump. The price boards are optional, and as you have observed most retailers now only choose to display 91 petrol and diesel. We think this is because they don't want to promote the higher price of premium fuels, especially 98 (where sold) which is 16c more than 91. The AA has asked fuel companies to publish the price of all fuel grades they sell on the boards, and we are also lobbying the government to make this mandatory.

Thanks for the reply. Could the AA insist that fuel stations accepting the Smartfuel card display all fuel prices on the price boards?
The smartfuel card seems to me as having just as many advantages to the fuel stations as the consumer by bringing new business and sales so they should see that the benefits are two-way.

That's a good suggestion and we’ll ask AA Smartfuel to look into it when the fuel partner contracts come up for review.

I think that the lack of display of petrol prices other than 91 is a problem . There is also a problem in the town where I live when you go into a petrol station with the 6 cents a litre discount board on display.
Once you get to the pump you find that 95 octane fuel is 13 cents more than 91 octane which is at the expected price . The Z garage has the 8 cents a litre price difference.