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[john1.2pearl]

Just found these on another forum and apparently fuel prices double every 10 years or so. Not for the faint hearted by the way

Petrol Prices 1983 to date
How gutting are these?

1983 36.7
1984 38.7
1985 42.8
1986 38.2
1987 37.8
1988 34.7
1989 38.4
1990 40.2
1991 39.5
1992 40.3
1993 45.9
1994 48.9
1995 50.9
1996 52.9
1997 57.9
1998 60.9
1999 61.9
2000 76.9
2001 77.9
2002 69.9
2003 77.9
2004 77.9
2005 79.9
2006 88.9
2007 95.9
2008 118.9

[photographymatt]

thanks john....I love you, my final major project for year one of my course is to do with raising petrol prices...this is a gold nugget of info )

[john1.2pearl]

Now we wouldnt want to be copying now would we ?!?!

[Kinjo]

thanks john....I love you, my final major project for year one of my course is to do with raising petrol prices...this is a gold nugget of info )

Take a look at this, Click Me

Its stupid how much fuel costs now, i drive for a living (a van not my mini) its just over £100 every 2 days

[photographymatt]

Not copying john, just it seems I cant just go take a pretty photo anymore..have to do lots of supporting research:-)lol
thanks for the other link kinjo

[Wippet]

It cost me £15.50 to fill up today!

[Guennie]

The cheapest petrol station round me was 119.9! cost me £30 to fill up

[Kinjo]

It cost me £15.50 to fill up today!

You must have had about 1/4 a tank, unless you found somewhere really cheap to buy fuel from. I filled up the other day, and cost me just shy of £30 +£6 for my jerry can in the boot.

[roofless]

call me sad, but I wodered what that lookd like in graphical forms - very steep curve in the latter years

[WiredbyWilson]

roofless your SAD! (nice graph tho)

[photographymatt]

call me fickle but...roofless I know love you.sorry john:-) lol

[minili]

Haha I'm glad Roofless put it in a graph that's exactly what I was thinking it needed

[The Matt]

You know what, I'm gonna plot this in Excel against rising house prices since 1983, and average salary increases.

See how the three lines plot against each other. to be honest though, I doubt that the petrol prices will be as shocking as average house prices!

[Guess-Works.com]

But fortunately they are going down again !

[Teapot]

Let's go back a bit (wider perspective etc). In 1957, after the Suez war, a gallon of 4-star was the equivalent of £4.16; and in 1916 a gallon cost the equivalent of £6.65, due to taxation.

Petrol tax was abolished in 1921. Petrol was cheapest in 1928 and 1949,when it cost £1.77 and £1.92 respectively. In recent history, petrol was cheapest in real terms in 1990 at £2.40 a gallon.

From 1928 to 1938 duty was introduced on light hydrocarbon oils and almost doubled over the period. From 1939 to 1950 (WW2 & aftermath)), petrol rationing held the price of petrol down.

* To convert the figures into price per litre, divide by 4.54609.

* The data should be treated as a guide only of prices at 1999 levels. Pre-1914, petrol prices were not clearly recorded and motorists often paid what the retailer demanded.

I remember saying that when petrol reached 50p (ten bob)* a gallon I'd give up motoring. Ha ha.
*Don't know what that'd be worth today but I was earning about £15 a week at the time

Edited by Teapot, 10 June 2008 - 07:05 AM.