Avg price of fuel 1989-2009 !!

Avg price of fuel 1989-2009 !!

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H100S

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1,436 posts

172 months

Tuesday 1st March 2011
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Put £20 in the car the other day and noticed the dial did not move very far. Got me thinking when I bought my first car in 1999 I could fill the tank for less than £30 seems I am correct. Corsa 1.2 40L tank at 70.2p was a £28 fill up. Same car today would cost over £50

Tax % is interesting though, up and down so much. Would be nice if anyone knew the 2010 and 2011 avg price.

Changing price of Fuel

year/petrol pence/diesel pence/petrol tax%/diesel tax%

1989 38.5 36.1 59.6% 62.8%
1990 42.3 40.4 58.0% 60.9%
1991 45.4 44.0 62.3% 62.9%
1992 46.2 45.4 65.2% 64.7%
1993 49.3 49.2 66.8% 65.7%

1994 50.7 50.9 71.0% 69.8%
1995 53.5 53.7 74.0% 73.7%
1996 56.4 57.4 76.1% 75.0%
1997 61.8 62.5 77.3% 76.6%
1998 64.8 65.5 81.4% 81.8%

1999 70.2 72.5 81.4% 83.0%
2000 79.9 81.3 75.6% 75.2%
2001 75.7 77.8 76.1% 74.4%
2002 73.2 75.5 77.5% 75.6%
2003 76.0 77.9 75.6% 74.1%

2004 80.9 82.5 73.1% 72.0%
2005 87.2 91.3 68.9% 66.5%
2006 92.0 95.7 66.2% 64.2%
2007 95.0 97.4 66.3% 65.0%
2008 107.5 118.1 61.7% 57.5%

2009 108.3 109.9 65.9% 65.1%

And its going to get worse!!

richrebel

36 posts

161 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2011
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Just goes to show how much we are overtaxed for petrol, I can't believe it was less than 50p a litre when I was born. It is now at least £1.26 here so why has it gone so far above the rate of inflation.

Z064life

1,926 posts

247 months

Thursday 3rd March 2011
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richrebel said:
Just goes to show how much we are overtaxed for petrol, I can't believe it was less than 50p a litre when I was born. It is now at least £1.26 here so why has it gone so far above the rate of inflation.
£1.26 is less than the cost here in NW London.

Those stats (avg cost) depress me. 1986 it was <40p!

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

254 months

Thursday 3rd March 2011
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Using those percentages of PRICE PAID lets the government off the hook.

Expressed as a percentage of the selling price (pre tax), it nearly hit 200% once.

I believe it's 170% at the moment.

Banditry in its purest form.

The Flying Ox

400 posts

172 months

Thursday 3rd March 2011
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You youngsters.

I remember filling my Chevette up for about £14 when I was 17. 4-star was 36.5p a litre.

Balmoral Green

40,660 posts

247 months

Thursday 3rd March 2011
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I'm not defending the price of petrol here, but the average wage in 1989 was £7975, so to a fair degree, it's all relative.

1989, ave wage £7975, petrol ave 41p litre.
2011, ave wage £25900, petrol ave 130p litre.

It looks about the same to me, or is petrol actually less now as a proportion of income?

How much was milk or a telly twenty years ago, in relative terms?

skyline501

214 posts

185 months

Thursday 3rd March 2011
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36p per litre, pah! It used to be 3s 4d per gallon when we went to the coast as youngsters.

nightflight

812 posts

216 months

Thursday 3rd March 2011
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45P a gallon, not a litre, when I started driving. Mind you, I was only earning £17 per week. A massive rip off all the same. When are we taking to the streets?

F i F

43,960 posts

250 months

Thursday 3rd March 2011
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skyline501 said:
36p per litre, pah! It used to be 3s 4d per gallon when we went to the coast as youngsters.
:Monty Python Yorkshireman:

When I were a lad, if you asked for a quid's worth, by 'eck that was being utterly flash.