Fuel

Wanaka's fuel woes continued yesterday, with many motorists "panic buying" petrol before the supply was nearly exhausted for a second time.

Fuel sales will resume at the Waikouaiti service station on February 1, when service will be available 24 hours a day using a card pay system.

Dunedin residents will not have to drive a bus to get biofuel when the city's first dedicated biodiesel depot fills its first tank in January.

Fuel should be restored to Waikouaiti by the new year, new provider Southfuels general manager (sales and marketing) Greg Cassidy says.

Queenstown's biodiesel refuelling facility, the first of its kind in New Zealand, has attracted national and international interest.

Clinton's 24-hour fuel stop should be pumping fuel by the end of April, but the Clinton Community Company is still looking for potential leaseholders for the facility.