ServRus petrol price

59 best known ways to save money on petrol rising prices The AA also offered the following fuel saving tips: • Have your vehicle serviced regularly • Have intermittent problems with your vehicle seen to • Make sure that your tyres are correctly inflated • Avoid stop-start driving • Use a logbook to record your fuel purchases and kilometres travelled. By keeping a record you will have a basis for comparison. It will help you to set new economy goals and to spot radical difference in performance due to mechanical malfunction.		It seems that everybody who travels will be affected by the latest fuel price hike. The petrol price hike to R6.73 will not only affect motorists - commuters will also feel the pinch with likely increases in taxi, bus and train fares. At least three organizations representing more than 240 taxi associations in Gauteng indicated that they had "no option" but to increase their fares soon. The United Taxi Association, the Greater Johannesburg Regional Taxi Council and Gauteng Top 6 Taxi Management all said they were going to increase their fares...more
Expectations of war are fuelling SA inflation South Africa's immediate economic future hangs on what happens in the Middle East, and Rand Merchant Bank chief economist Rudolf Gouws has warned that if the conflict escalates into a war, "all bets are off".		Global Petrol Prices The following comparison, which was updated on 22 June 2006, gives us an indication of what we are paying for petrol relative to other countries. When we did this study we had no idea so many people would be accessing this page and would be looking for this kind of information. We have been unable to update this page because it is extremely difficult to gather this information on an ongoing basis. Certainly there is no other website which gives such a table. We appeal to all esteemed Visitors to kindly send us an e-mail at support@kshitij.com giving us the following pieces of information: (i) Your name (ii) Your City and Country and (iii) the Price you are paying right now for your petrol/ gas. We shall incorporate this information on an ongoing basis on this page so that it may serve a useful purpose for all concerned. Thank you for you time and consideration. May Oil prices come down for the good of all of us. We are grateful to our Contributors for volunteering their information so that this page may serve the global community. Updated on 22nd June, 2006
Fuel price may top R7 per litre within weeks. South African motorists should brace themselves for a sharp increase in the price of petrol over the next few weeks as world oil prices, goaded by a fresh outbreak of violence in the Middle East, hit record highs on Thursday.
Interest and petrol hike on the cards. Next month could see a general tightening of the purse strings with a petrol price rise of up to 40c predicted, along with another interest rate hike.
To try and understand how the price of fuel is calculated visit the tables that indicate the various components that go into making up the prices we pay at the pumps, in the various provinces. South Africa determines its fuel price every month based on the Rand/Dollar exchange rate of the previous month, the spot price of oil purchased from three refineries in the Middle East and one in Singapore, and the costs of freight, insurance and financing. In the light of the proposed additional fuel levy to be introduced in the Western Province supposedly to finance the maintenance of the current road infrastructure as well as pay for a public transport system. It is interesting to note that, in the table below (Contributing to the basic fuel price – BFP) we motorists, motorcyclists and transporters are already paying a fuel levy of R1.16/litre on petrol and R1.00/litre on diesel. Was this levy not originally introduced for the express purpose of contributing to the costs of maintaining our vast road network? Or has this money been “diverted” elsewhere?