Drivers queue for Adrian Portelli’s 99c fuel offer as billionaire hits back at taxpayer claims

Key points

• Drivers queued for hundreds of metres in Adelaide on Saturday, causing traffic delays along Daws Rd at Edwardstown. The queues formed for a one-day offer at a newly opened LMCT+ fuel station, where unleaded petrol was sold for 99 cents a litre.
• Billionaire Adrian Portelli announced the promotion on Friday. On Saturday he said he had paid for the traffic controllers managing the site himself.
• The station operates on a membership model that requires an annual $99 fee.