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This articals facts were vandalized under gass price modifiers, someone has messed with the numbers by adding more didgits. Can someone correct the facts? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.172.80.4 (talk) 16:29, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
There's still something wrong there. "not"s seem to have been inserted everywhere... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.19.114.133 (talk) 16:19, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
Just updated the prices for Hungary, and the converter is for sure wrong. It says that the local fuel price converted to USD/US gallon would be 5.00, but in actuality it's more around 6.80-7.00 ... Someone who is more knowledgeable of Wikipedia than I am check please? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.133.132.149 (talk) 11:08, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
Agree. Even i am not sure how to do this. But i have updated the Price in USD to 1.58. Some knowledgible persons Please correct this. -- Sunil —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sunilkumartk (talk • contribs) 05:02, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
1. correction Iran The CNN Money link states Iran feul price is US0.33per gallon.
2. Addition Brunei Could someone please add Brunei feul prices to the list of current prices. It adds to the the SE Asian list. I quote the IHT http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/26/business/AS-FIN-Brunei-Fuel-Prices.php "Energy Minister Awang Yahya said that subsidies in 2004 totaled 50 million Brunei dollars, but the figure has since skyrocketed as Brunei maintained retail gasoline prices at 53 Brunei cents (US$0.40; €0.25) per liter, or 2 Brunei dollars (US$1.51; €1) per gallon, despite soaring global prices." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.54.214.54 (talk) 01:12, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Wow. The lack of discussion on Gas Prices is surprising. This page has been faithfully and objectively updated, but is lacking in a longer history on prices and consumption rates, either per person or combined countrywide.
Also, a discussion of causes in price fluctuations in the US, from the start to today, including the following major events:
I am guessing that some of this already exists in the pages of other Wikipedia articles, but this would be a good central point for all of this. I know, be bold, but I usually defer to the regular creators of a page before jumping in. After all, there might already be a page called "History of Gas Prices" or something like that which I am unaware of. CodeCarpenter 21:03, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
It would be interesting to see a discussion these additional pricing-related topics: 1. How in the US retail per-gallon prices are universally expressed in cents plus hundreds of cents. How did this get started? Why does it persist, as a lone example of pricing weirdness? 2. How filling station owners set the price of gasoline daily. Specifically, (a) what inputs are they using to tell them that overnight (or in the middle of the day) the retail price of gasoline should/could move up? In changing prices they often seem to be responding to events far beyond the local market for gasoline, e.g., you'll hear that gas prices rose on a given day because of "concerns" about potential supply disruptions in the Middle East (or am I misinterpreting things here -- is it just the price of oil that's affected?). OK, but how does my local gas station owner know how to react to that, by raising the price three cents, say, versus ten cents? Do the oil wholesalers, for instance, supply price data down to the local level? (b) If gas station owners are buying gasoline in large quantities (think of the big tankers) at wholesale, do they ever lose money because they paid $X/gal expecting to sell for $X-plus-something/gal when subsequent supply/demand dynamics push the retail price down to $X-MINUS/gal? Or do they have ways of protecting themselves against this sort of thing? This seems like a huge risk. McTavidge (talk) 04:12, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
I do no know how to add references but this is a decent source: http://earthtrends.wri.org/text/energy-resources/variable-291.html
The following document gives prices for nearly all countries of the world as of November 2006: [1], see the graphic on page 97 for a summary; or a shorter summary: [2]. If I ever get time I will update the figures in this article, or somebody else can.
P.S., can we please have prices per litre (as in above document). I can convert currencies, but a U.S. gallon is meaningless to anyone outside the US, most of the world sells petrol by the litre. TiffaF 13:47, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
shouldnt "...amounting to 44% of the total U.S. consumption of petroleum products." be "...amounting to 44% of the total world consumption of petroleum products."
?—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.162.204.52 (talk • contribs) 15:07, 10 July 2007.
I have moved the following text from Gasoline usage and pricing to Talk:Gasoline usage and pricing because it appears to be missing assumptions that would give it logical sense. One assumption could be that taxes outside the US have a flat component but the text does not state this. It needs rewriting, with sources, to make meaningful sense. For example if gasoline costs one dollar per gallon in the US with zero taxes and one dollar in the UK with 100 % taxes (so costing 2 dollars to the consumer), other costs being the same, then an increase in oil cost of 50% makes gasoline cost 1.50 in the US and 3.00 in the UK. In both countries the consumer price has increased by 50%, and there is no difference in percentage variability. Maybe "greater" should be replaced by "the same", or the percentage clause just removed? The absolute variability being less would be true, but to me seems unimportant as taxes always increase the absolute costs, and therefore the variability, to the consumer. It seems to reduce to "Increased taxes cause reduced retail price variability in absolute terms." Is this worth explaining here?
-Wikianon 11:50, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
It's a weak argument anyway. Yes, a French haulier could cross the channel and do a pickup or delivery in the UK, filling up with cheaper diesel before leaving France. But, he still has to travel from wherever he is based in France over to the UK, and then come all the way back to France, all of which will use up fuel. And, of course, there is the cost of actually using the ferry or shuttle or whatever he uses. There are specific hypothetical cases where a French haulier could potentially have a cost advantage over a UK one using this method - a haulier based very near to Calais picking up or delivering somewhere not far from Dover would have the best advantage. But in practise I don't believe it really happens. I've been in industry for about 20 years and I don't personally recall instances where we have been quoted more attractive rates by French hauliers than by UK ones - except in cases where the delivery or the collection actually has to be made in France..... StanPomeray (talk) 11:47, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
the economy was being tested with the price of gas . states that were hard hit in 1997 were california and new york and alaska the price of gasoline was in the 2.00 range . As for all other states florida for example the price was at 1.45. greed came into afect in the states of CA and NY for gasoline drivers. On the other hand the cost of deisel was at 1.60 when gas prices hiked up nickel by weekly averaging well over 2.25 almost 30 dollars to fill a gas tank in NY and CA. In 2001 the government felt hey NY and CA can handle it lets hike the price up to the rest of the 48 states. And you saw that 2.00 hit everyones pocket for a gallon of gas in FL . ANd the the cost of deisel still fell cheaper to purchase at 1.60 a gallon . so do the math its greed and price gauging. we cant be out of gasoline reserves when they are still selling 1989 gasoline and refining 2011 gasoline. The world is full of oil reserves someones being greedy and we need to find out who to point the finger too before it gets out of control .
Potentially useful citation for your consideration: Michael Gromley (2008-04-27). "Gas pumps may give less for more". DelawareOnline. Albany, New York: Delaware News Journal. Retrieved 2008-04-27. ((cite news))
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This article has no numbers for either country on the Korean Peninsula. This is a conspicuous absence considering which nearby countries are listed. What's going on?Youdontsmellbad (talk) 00:04, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
This page should have the European Union nations, Middle East states categorized by region since there is a price differentiation... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.196.138.68 (talk) 21:12, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
Some longer term history of the price of gas over history adjusted for inflation would be more useful. For instance gas was regullary $3.15+ in 2008 dollars back in the early 1980's. A little perspective is always nice. An example chart of more longer term data is shown here: http://inflationdata.com/inflation/images/charts/Oil/Gasoline_inflation_chart.htm File:Http://inflationdata.com/inflation/images/charts/Oil/Inflation adjusted gasoline price.jpg
A wiki-usable image would be nice to include in the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.130.174.146 (talk) 03:04, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
The title of the page is "Gasoline Usage and Pricing" and extensive global data is given on pricing, but usage data is only given for the US, other than anecdotal information. Shouldn't more usage data for other countries be given to make it comparable in content to the pricing data? Or should this page be split into two separate pages, one on pricing and one on usage? Dru007 (talk) 03:25, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
According to the GTZ document referenced in the article, fuel is sold in:
I've changed the table to have $/litre first, and added automatic conversions to $/US-gallon for every country listed. Hopefully this will be easier to maintain than everyone having to convert currencies and volumes! ƕ (talk) 16:09, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
I gather from various news sources that individual gas stations aren't the ones getting rich off of the present high prices. So who is? What does the supply chain look like and what is a typical cut at each step along the way? It arrives at gas stations on tank trucks that drove from... where? —Ben FrantzDale (talk) 04:10, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
I used to work for BP, and I know the detailed cost breakdowns for unleaded petrol (in the UK at least, and as it was about 6 years ago, although I don't think it has changed much now). The delivered margin made by the refinery on a forecourt sale of unleaded fuel at that time was a little under 7%, in other words, for every pound spent at the pump, BP got just under 7p. Oil companies do not get rich from selling petrol - they make more money from selling the exploration and extraction rights and technologies (to other oil companies), and by selling specialist lubricants and process oils into industry. You ask who is getting rich from selling petrol - in Europe the answer is governments. The tax levels on fuels are so high that the exchequer makes more per litre of fuel sold than the rest of the supply chain put together. StanPomeray (talk) 11:36, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
I've moved these two US gasoline price images from Price of petroleum to Gasoline and diesel usage and pricing because that article deals with petroleum and not petroleum derivative prices. However the two images look like they go together and could be used here, maybe to illustrate the impact of Petroleum prices on a typical derivative? -84user (talk) 16:40, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Someone has done a super great job on this webpage "Gasoline and diesel usage and pricing." If there was some way to get whoever did this page to include the gas taxes in the "Average gasoline prices around the world" that would be even greater. This information is really timely and people need to be able to look at a schedule like this and know that nearly all people the world over are paying about the same price for the gasoline itself less the taxes except in a few cases where gasoline is supposedly being heavily subsidized.
Thank you for considering my suggestion.
Jim
Country/Territory | US$/L | US$/gal | Local units | Amount of tax in consumer price |
Date of price | Sources |
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United Kingdom | 2.33 | 8.82 | £1.19/L | 57.3% | 2008-06-30 | [10] |
This type of table is not what Wikipedia is about, is not updated in a way which gives readers a good comparison of prices, and attracts hard to detect vandalism. There are several webpages already linked to from this page that do a better job. I think we should ditch current prices and have instead a table which says how much users in various countries pay in taxes or save in subsidies (a percentage is not a good idea because when the base price shifts the percentage shifts with it). That type of information is much more informative, less static, and actually encyclopedic. Comments? NJGW (talk) 20:45, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
Something is wrong with the average price historical for the United States. I know I paid in excess of $4.00/gallon that summer the war in Iraq started. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.161.6.139 (talk) 05:11, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Can anyone fix the formatting problem with the current table (Zambia entry contains end of page headings and content)? I've tried but MediaWiki seems not to like closing the table with pipe+bracket. Phlash909 (talk) 12:59, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
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I just searched wikipedia for "gas price", and got this article by redirect. I expected Natural gas prices. I added a "for ... see ...", but I think it's ugly. If a person finds this article by searching or following links for Gasoline, it's also going to look irrelevant. Given that Gas is a generic term for a non-liquid fluid, and that many gases are commodities in themselves, wouldn't a separate disambiguation page be better? SeanCollins (talk) 06:14, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
Would any of the veterans of this article or this knowledge area (futures, commodities, oil, etc) care to add information to this article about futures? (If not, I may eventually find the time, but don't count on it.) JonathanFreed (talk) 16:44, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
I probably am. A lot of this detail isn't going to matter in the long term.Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 17:11, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
A lot of work has gone into this table but as both petrol prices and currencies are highly variable over time in many countries it does not give a good basis for comparing prices. The range of spot prices is spread over 2,5 years and the prices are given in local currency rather than one of the international standard currencies. I believe it should be replaced with a reference to the very illuminating graphic at http://www.staveleyhead.co.uk/utilities/petrol-prices/. Any comments? Porturology (talk) 12:02, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
Perhaps the price of gasoline can be briefly compared to biobutanol (replacement fuel) or another alcohol (requiring engine modification) as bioethanol or biomethanol ? In addition, perhaps we can compare the price of petroDiesel with vegetable oil (the last is generally 1,4 euro vs 0,6 euro (on average)). Link to vegetable oil economy for the latter. 91.182.37.177 (talk) 08:41, 7 September 2012 (UTC)