Petrol pricing

[Nish Nishant]

Cost of Octane-91 Petrol in Trivandrum is Rs 45 (USD 1). Regular petrol is Rs 43. There's a version of Octane-91 petrol that comes with performance boosting additives which comes at Rs 46/litre. So in general it's around USD 1 and when you consider that most Indians make 20% what an Aussie makes, think of it as petrol being USD 5 out there. It's expensive!

[Weiye Chen]

Regarding that pirated DVD you got from ebay, how is the copyright owner gonna deal with that? :rolleyes: Weiye Chen Life is hard, yet we are made of flesh...

[Christian Graus]

Well, I hope they'll report the infringement to ebay, and the seller will lose his account. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

[Roger Wright]

code-frog wrote: "We're not gonna take it!" The Who, from the Rock Opera, Tommy. I have two copies.:-O Very appropriate, btw...:) "...putting all your eggs in one basket along with your bowling ball and gym clothes only gets you scrambled eggs and an extra laundry day... " - Jeffry J. Brickley

[Roger Wright]

Christian Graus wrote: Is the price of petrol going nuts everywhere else Yes. When I started driving, I paid $.27 per US gallon. In 1973 the Arabs decided to strangle the market and cut off imports to the US. Domestic suppliers told us, and the government confirmed, that the world had, at most, a twenty year supply of crude oil left. That led to an increase to $.70 per gallon, about what the world market was charging at the time. To my small mind, that scarcity justified the increased price, and I gladly paid. Thirty-two years later I find that we are still in no danger of running out of petroleum - the gas companies and my own government both blatantly lied to us all. There is no excuse for the prices we now pay. It can't be justified in any way other than "caveat emptor." Let the buyer beware. As long as we would rather drive our cars than walk, the blood-suckers will continue to raise prices. This is pure capitalism at work. The demand curve is flat, and the supply curve very elastic. In such conditions, it is a seller's market. So long as we choose to pay whatever the suppliers elect to charge for the product, the price will continue to climb. Microsoft is currently enjoying such a market, and we, as developers of MS-compatible products, share in that boon. We help to create it, in fact. It's nothing to be concerned about - just a free market working exactly as free markets are supposed to work. If you don't like the price of petrol, buy a bike instead. If enough of us ride bikes instead of driving to work, the cost of petrol will come down. That, too, is a part of the market system at work.:-D "...putting all your eggs in one basket along with your bowling ball and gym clothes only gets you scrambled eggs and an extra laundry day... " - Jeffry J. Brickley

[Roger Wright]

Weiye Chen wrote: we should ride on horses instead. Do you have any idea what a bale of hay costs here? It's much cheaper, and faster to travel by automobile...;) "...putting all your eggs in one basket along with your bowling ball and gym clothes only gets you scrambled eggs and an extra laundry day... " - Jeffry J. Brickley

[jan larsen]

In Denmark we've just reached a new record: 1.6 USD! Time to buy a Prius. Allthough the price of that would take quite some years to get back from fuel savings :-) "God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein "God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr

[Lost User]

I wouldn’t mind so much if I could get full leaded petrol. My poor old VC commodore wont run on unleaded so I have to purchase additives as well as pay a premium for unleaded. Doesn’t make sense to me that I have to pay extra because I cant afford a newer car. I can remember about 10 years ago driving past service stations because 70c was a 'rip off'.

[Lost User]

Apart from the headline items, China's energy demand is increasing rapidly but they have virtually no oil reserves of their own so it's going to get worse not better :sigh: The tigress is here :-D

[Anna Jayne Metcalfe]

Apparently one of the garages in this area is selling unleaded fuel for 95.9p/litre...:omg: For the benefit of our US cousins that's £3.94 or about $6.90 per US gallon... Anna :rose: Riverblade Ltd - Software Consultancy Services Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.

[jonathan15]

Its about £0.91 around where i live in the UK and i think thats about average in the UK at the moment. I live in a fairly Rural area but its close to a main trunk route and tourist hotspot so i think that keeps the price fairly low. I have seen several places near me (though a bit more rural) selling for over £1 now. It makes a big difference and i am noticing it already. Unfortunately i have Oil central heating aswell and thats going up also although its much cheaper in the summer (a difference of over 12p infact. Not much fun when you have to fill a 1000 ltr tank). Next spring i want to replace my 1000 ltr tank with a 2000 ltr tank so i can just fill it once in the summer. With the cheaper prices for higher volume it should save me over £150 a year. Jon

[Colin Angus Mackay]

Christian Graus wrote: I remember griping a few months ago that petrol went over $1 a litre, and it's just hit $1.27. Petrol where I live is around 92p per litre. That is $1.74 (USD) per litre (or $6.50 per US Gallon). In some of the remoter parts of Scotland petrol has been above £1.00 for some time (That's over $7 per US Gallon)

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[Daniel Turini]

Christian Graus wrote: Is the price of petrol going nuts everywhere else, or is it just here ( Australia ) ? Brazil produces roughly the ammount of petrol it needs, so it's not a huge problem for the economy. From time to time, tough, gas prices arise a bit to avoid people buying here and exporting it, so although we (almost) don't buy any petrol from other countries, prices go together with international prices. I see dead pixels Yes, even I am blogging now!

[Ray Kinsella]

its about €1.09 a litre here in Ireland thats $1.75 aus a litre, .74 pence a litre in gbp, $1.33 US a litre, up from around €1 a litre early this year, we have large gas reserves but no oil to speak of, we are starting to fund bio-fuel projects. Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire"

[David Wulff]

One of my local garages was up to 92.5p/litre yesterday. That is the highest I have personally seen it round here. We are getting a new Tescos in the winter which introduce competition between them and the Safeway garage, hopefully holding prices at a peny or two cheaper than the other garages... until the independants go bankrupt and the supermarkets agree to raise the prices together. :sigh: I had a scary moment the other day. While filling up I noticed that the litre counter was almost in tune with the £ counter. I have to keep checking I am watching the right one. I'm beginning to wonder if it would not be cheaper to ship my car over to the U.S., fill it up with petrol, then ship it back again. :~

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[David Crow]

Roger Wright wrote: As long as we would rather drive our cars than walk, the blood-suckers will continue to raise prices. Unfortunately true. Our 10:00 news aired a gas-related segment the other night. They were at the pump while the owner of a Ford Excursion was filling up. He said it definitely hurts to pay over $90 to fill up but he said it is worth the comfort of the vehicle and had no plans on getting rid of it. That thing is so huge, it is not classified as a "light truck" so the CAFE standards do not apply (one of the reasons you see N/A on review-type sites). At roughly 5 MPG, I think that is unfair to the rest of us.

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[Lost User]

Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote: $6.90 per US gallon OMG! :eek:

[Jeff Martin]

I've got their "Big Hits & Nasty Cuts" "best of" CD. I just happen to need a leg (I prefer the left one), so I'll e-mail you the MP3 as soon as I get your leg. I prefer you use FedEx. :laugh: Jeff Martin My Blog

[Jeff Martin]

Great explanation. I wish everyone were so rational about it. I get tired of hearing people whine about the prices and wanting the gov't to "do something." It's our own fault. After the 70's rationing episodes, people started buying smaller, more fuel efficient cars. We got used to cheap gas, so people started drifting back to bigger and bigger cars. Now, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a Hummer, Suburban, Expedition or some other vehicle* that gets 10MPG. If people will pay $2.00/gal, oil companies will raise it to $2.25. If people are still paying that much, they'll go to $2.50 (what it is in my area). It's funny, I don't hear those people whining when their house value goes up 50% (like they have in my area in the past few years) because of demand. *I'm not insulting SUV owners as I am one. My wife drives a GMC Envoy that gets about 17MPG. Jeff Martin My Blog

[bevpet]

After seeing my weekly update, I feel much better now about paying $1.02 a litre. most of you young puppies were still a dream back then :doh: http://www.chartoftheday.com/20050812.gif[^]