Official tracker of Price hike's & cut's in petrol & diesel in India

[gendarmee]

a minimum Rs 5 increase it quoted.
I wonder why they don't double the price of the fuel and let it stay thatway for the next 8 odd years. Price changes up until 2003 were good now days they shock me more.

[gendarmee]

Originally Posted by jesal

why the hell dont they cut the taxes. not like they are putting it any good use at all. why should we keep paying more and more.

I wonder why they cruelly look at lower taxes as loss of profit, or taxes as such. Increase of price might just decrease usage by a percentage, not that they are increasing the taxes to conserve petrol for later generations.
dont know if they ever considered lowering taxes or probably nowadays, they consider petrol a commodity like salt, but with a catch. they think it'd sell in the same volume, regardless of the price.

One optio im considering is moving to CNG.
But hey, if people start using cng more they'd slap heavy taxes on Gobar gas too.

Or

Do like grandma says they'd done with the 7 seater master Buick during the world war time when petrol was scarce, gotten a gas plant to power the car! and ran the car on coal-steam power, it will still be cheaper than running the car on petrol.

[C.S.ANANTH]

In Chennai, I find that many stations are displaying the NO STOCK board. I believe that the Oil Companies are resorting to cut in supplies. This in effect, is a sort of RATIONING;but without any legal sanction. Also, there have been instances of forcing the customer to purchase the Premium Petrol or Diesel because the Oil companies are supplying only these Premium fuels.
I wonder where we are heading to and will there be any solution?
Is the scenario different in other parts of India?
Ananth

[SumitB]

Not surprising as crude touched and tested 140$ levels at the close of last week.

[jeetu4444]

Guys after so many days of filling normal petrol, the HP club pump tells me only power is there, and it is 4 rs more than normal petrol, thats cheating the public, we should have the right to choose

[SohailPistawala]

This happened to me on a couple of occasions. Infact a pump near my house bluntly says only Extra Premium no sada fuel

[SuperSyn]

Originally Posted by jeetu4444

Guys after so many days of filling normal petrol, the HP club pump tells me only power is there, and it is 4 rs more than normal petrol, thats cheating the public, we should have the right to choose

HP pumps also employ another tactic to sell more expensive gas. If you go to a fuel station late night / early morning (say between 0200-0700 hours), the operator will claim that only premium machine is working, the others are off and only the malik/manager can start the other machines.

They know that anyone refuelling at this time might be a little desperate if not on their way during travel, so people end up buying the more expensive fuel.

I have seen this tactic being employed routinely at HP stations only, not so much at IOC or BP.

[mail4loys]

Today in Chennai it was total confusion and chaos. Almost all of the petrol bunk that i crossed was closed. There were huge queue and traffic. I even saw people standing in long queue with diesel can to get diesel . I don't why !

Is there any announcement on price hike? or is it due to the lorry strike that has been called for?

[A S H V I N]

the chaos at chennai is due to the lorry strike. as it is chennai has been facing a shortage of regular unleaded petrol and normal diesel over the past week. and with the lorry strikes absolute shortage is perceived,

[bharanidharang]

yup. almost all bunks in chennai have no stock (or thats what they say). On my morning walk could see vehicles in a long queue at 5 A.M. Already black marketers are making a kill.

hope today does not turn out to be a panic situation

[jeetu4444]

This is mad stuff. 1st they increase price and then , they want to stop normal fuel, and now no stock, god knows where is this country going..

[AirWind]

Originally Posted by jeetu4444

This is mad stuff. 1st they increase price and then , they want to stop normal fuel, and now no stock, god knows where is this country going..

All this inspite of we being (assume most of us on this thread are) prompt tax payers... guess who is making the kill? the ones who don't!

I'm guessing the Nano will be cheaper to run than a Reva... guess how? its gonna be bullock-powered (a 5 litre, massive 1 tonne engine block)

[AirWind]

Originally Posted by Sahil

If the govt feels diesel cars are more polluting then why would they increase petrol prices by 17 rs !!!? They are just forcing people to switch to diesel.

India needs some good hybrids, like AS-freakin-AP !!!

but affordable hybrids, the civic costs a tad less than twice its gas sibling - now what VFM would it give and who would buy that?

Also to add, India needs practical & again affordable electric cars - not a funny REVA!