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Numbers are universal and are everywhere we look. I often wonder how the world would manage if there were no numbers.
What do you think?
NB: The above are NZ petrol prices, per litre, at a discount petrol retailer. They equate to about US$7.89 per gallon.
What American motorists would give to pay $1.17 per gallon for their gasoline today. The Rolls Royce Silver Cloud was my focus of interest in this view taken at a Palm Beach gas station over a quarter a century ago, but the passage of time has made the posted prices the more resonant facet. As a Florida resident today, I am this week paying $3.49/gallon - prices have been on a rising trend. Five years ago, I paid as little as $1.69. Of course, many a British and European Flickr friend would be envious even of the latest inflated prices. America is a cheap gas country, and imposing the heavy tax rates that Brits, French and others have to pay would be a surefire vote-loser.
April 1995
Rollei 35 camera
Fujichrome 100 film.
日本ではガソリン税（高率な特例税率53.8 円/リットル〘cf. 本則税率24.3円/リットル〙）などが課税された価格にさらに消費税が課税されガソリン価格のほぼ4割が税金だそうです。ガソリン税に消費税を課税することは、税に税を課税する二重課税です。
Now I know many Aussies have probably seen their local petrol prices even lower than this, but I recorded this local servo on my afternoon walk recently as it seemed to me that the lowest prices in years could not last forever. With travel restricted and our pump prices loosely tied to the rise and fall of international prices, petrol prices in many of Australia’s larger cities at least go through cycles from highs to lows and back again on an all too regular basis. And not just small price movements either. We are often urged to buy now, it’s the bottom of the cycle.
Fuel companies are fairly well despised for the manner in which the saw toothed prices will go up considerably overnight. In Brisbane, which has one of the worst cycles in Australia, the highest price pre-coronavirus was normally $1.73.9 for standard 91 octane unleaded. It would then slowly fall over a number of weeks to about $1.29.9 before shooting up again. We are urged to use independents but most sell, in Brisbane for about the same price. One exception is a Puma station not that far from us at Northside Zillmere which usually has the best prices around.
The large supermarkets, Coles and Woolworths will argue that although these are their standard prices, customers can obtain fuel cheaper by using their docket discounts, usually 4c per litre and even more if you buy a certain amount of “grocery” items. Some independent stations also accept their dockets or give similar discounts if you show your local motoring organisations’s card.
The truth is, most believe, including the government and motoring organisations that most of the time we are being ripped off. Here’s another example. Just prior to the lockdown when we were at the Sunshine Coast, average prices there were 10-15c per litre cheaper than Brisbane. Consistently, not just at one station. And often the same applies once you cross the Pine River Bridge in metro Brisbane’s northern suburbs to Redcliffe where the prices will shoot up by a similar amount - just by crossing a bridge. They must think the public are suckers! They say it’s lack of competition.
The station photographed is a barometer of prices....it is consistently the first one to put prices up often a week or more before the said Puma goes up.
On yesterday night’s TV news, they announced the price had suddenly gone up round town. Strange, that coincides with the lifting of local restrictions on travel from this weekend to 50 kms. By my estimate, from what I saw, the price per litre increase was to about $1.19.9, still cheap but approximately 30c or more per litre, overnight. Is that same % reflected in the international oil price? Somehow I doubt it.
Unless we get a second wave, and travel is restricted again, which is entirely possible in my mind we won’t see prices this low again. So, this one is definitely for posterity!
In March 2022, the price per litre, post Ukraine had climbed to $2.19.9
"'K Heb getwijfeld over België
Omdat iedereen daar lacht
'K Heb getwijfeld over België
Want dat taaltje is zo zacht…"
*Het Goede Doel*
While waiting for the lights to change, a snatched view of a 1965 Chevy making the turn from 34th St N to 5th Ave N, St. Pete. (Good friend Jim has a ‘64, and he identified this as a ‘65.) our gas prices continue to edge up. I expect to be paying over $4/gallon before too long.
The last passengers alight from Leicester City Transport 66 (CJF66C), a Leyland PD3A/1 with handsome East Lancashire bodywork at the Narborough Road terminus of the 52 route. This stop marks the city boundary and the limit of LCT operations. The bus will then turn around and head back into the city.
I deliberately included the Esso sign and the posted petrol prices, believing that this would become of historical interest over time. Those prices BTW are in pence per gallon, not litre. Who wouldn’t wish to pay that kind of price today? But that was a hefty price to pay back then, and inflation was rampant at the time.
I had bought my first car in Summer 1973, reckoning that I could afford running it at the then-prevailing average 30p/gallon. Then weeks later along came the Yom Kippur War, followed by OPEC’s retaliatory squeeze on oil prices. All that hurt enough, but Dennis Healey raising Fuel Tax in March 1974 was the cherry on the cake - I would have to pay around 50p/gallon. That put car ownership beyond my budget, and before too long I was back on the bus.
Google Maps shows that you can still buy petrol at this location - it’s a Tesco petrol station these days.
April 1978
Zorki 4 camera
Agfa CT18 film.
You can decided which way you want to go, it's up to you. Another shot I captured, on my walk around town.
A person putting some 10 euro notes in their cars fuel tank.
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Three 10 euro notes inside a cars petrol tank
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A top view of a spare gas can with a 20 dollar bill, a 10 dollar bill and a one dollar bill coming out of it.
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A petrol can with three dollars bills coming out of it.
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A fan of British pounds coming out of a petrol can.
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A fan of Euro notes coming out of a gas can - top view
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A ten pound note coming out of a petrol can - top view
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The price of petrol keeps going up and up.
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A photo of an Esso petrol station forecourt in the UK
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Three 10 pound notes coming out of a petrol tank of a car
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An image of a car being refueled.
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A photo of a petrol pump
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A £50 note coming out of a car's petrol tank
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Cost of petrol in UK is going up.
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A £50 note coming out of a fuel tank.
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The cost of petrol keeps going up and up in the UK
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You could look at this two ways: the cheap forecourt prices that used to be in this now-closed garage or the tarnished reputation of BP.
More shots from this trip here
I never, ever had any intentions of posting images such as this, but I kinda like all the shades of blue in this image. I simply took the shot to keep track of gas prices. Gas in Ireland (and all of Europe, for that matter) is sold by the liter. The Republic of Ireland is on the Euro. So, this works out to $8.11 per U.S. Gallon. At the very same time, unleaded regular here in Oregon was running about $3.84 per U.S. Gallon, a difference of 111%. I keep trying to convince my local buddies that we here in the U.S. have it made. I paid as high as $8.70 (or so) per gallon on the trip. I had the rental car for a month in the UK / Ireland, and put 3,100 miles on the little Vauxhall Corsa.
(From Wikipedia, edited):
County Sligo is a county in Ireland. It is located in the Border Region (the Border with Northern Ireland) and is also part of the province of Connacht. It is named after the town of Sligo. The local authority for the county is the Sligo County Council. The population of the county is 65,393 according to the 2011 census. An archaeological recovery suggests the county may have been one of the earliest places of human settlement in Ireland.
Sligo is the 22nd largest of Ireland's 32 counties in area and 26th largest in terms of population. It is the fourth largest of Connacht's 5 counties in size and third largest in terms of population. The county borders County Mayo to the west, County Roscommon to the south and south-east and County Leitrim to the north-east.
The price of gasoline as advertised by the 7-Eleven by my home. I have a feeling, that given the national elections, the price of gas has bottomed out.
National fuels self service petrol pump on display at the Lakeland Motor Museum.
5 star petrol at 38.0 pence per gallon, from the early 1970's I think.
Sign advertising gas prices as of October 5 around here. I took the photo while trying out my new digital camera.
The 7-Eleven sign with the listed gas prices only two days after my first photo of the sign. Gas prices are coming down more rapidly but not fast enough.
Just one week after I originally photographed this sign, the price of regular gasoline had dropped to $2.99 a gallon. This was yesterday. This afternoon, as I was returning home, the price was down to $2.83! I have never seen the price of gasoline drop so quickly before.
Advertising on the back of a Wright Eclipse Urban bodied Volvo B7RLE with Transdev Keighley & District. Petrol has dropped below £1 a litre since this branding was applied, it stil displays it now but with fares from just 80p - the second time it has had to be changed in the 12 months since new!
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