Petrol, Gas, Diesel: Prices From All Over the World
by The price of oil has hit an all time high and people all around the world are feeling the squeeze. Here is a comparative analysis of what the price of petrol is in different countries around the world.
The Republic of Ireland. There is an Irish website showing the cheapest pumps all around Ireland. The average weekly price for Petrol(Gas) on 16 June 2008 was €1.31/liter. This will equate to US$2.03/liter using a monthly average exchange rate of 0.64404 USD/Euro June 2008. For all the Americans this will equate to US$7.75/gallon (1 liter = 0.2624 gallons). If you are living in the UK this will be equivalent of paying £1.04/liter using a monthly average exchange rate of 0.792145 Euro/GBP June 2008.
The United Kingdom. There is a UK website showing cheapest pumps all around the UK. The average price for Petrol(Gas) on 15 June2008 was 118.0p/liter. This will be equivalent of paying €1.49/liter(0.792145 Pound/Euro) if you are living in Europe. If you are living in the US then this will equate to US$8.82/gallon using a monthly average exchange rate of 0.510131 USD/GBP June 2008.
The United States of America. There are some great US websites that show all kind of information and trends on where the prices are going. The average price for Petrol/Gas on 16 June 2008 was US$4.04/gallon. This will be equivalent of paying €0.68/liter if you are living in Europe. If you are living in the UK then this will equate to 54p/liter.
OK so that is how I calculated this table(Unleaded Petrol):
| Country | USD/gallon | Euro/liter | GBP/liter | Rand/Liter | AUD/Liter | SEK/Liter | CAD/liter | Rs/liter | CHY/liter | SAR/liter |
| Republic of Ireland | 7.75 | 1.31 | 1.04 | 16.11 | 2.14 | 12.25 | 2.07 | 86.88 | 14.07 | 6.35 |
| United Kingdom | 8.82 | 1.49 | 1.18 | 18.33 | 2.44 | 13.93 | 2.35 | 98.82 | 16.01 | 8.30 |
| United States of America | 4.04 | 0.68 | 0.54 | 8.40 | 1.12 | 6.39 | 1.08 | 45.29 | 7.34 | 3.98 |
| South Africa | 4.73 | 0.80 | 0.63 | 9.83 | 1.31 | 7.47 | 1.26 | 52.98 | 8.55 | 6.02 |
| Australia | 5.72 | 0.97 | 0.77 | 11.88 | 1.58 | 9.03 | 1.53 | 64.07 | 10.38 | 4.55 |
| Germany | 8.88 | 1.50 | 1.19 | 18.45 | 2.45 | 14.02 | 2.37 | 99.48 | 16.12 | 7.27 |
| Sweden | 8.23 | 1.39 | 1.10 | 17.12 | 2.27 | 13.00 | 2.20 | 92.22 | 14.94 | 6.89 |
| Spain | 7.04 | 1.19 | 0.94 | 14.63 | 1.95 | 11.13 | 1.88 | 78.92 | 12.79 | 5.77 |
| Canada | 4.94 | 0.84 | 0.66 | 10.28 | 1.37 | 7.81 | 1.32 | 55.41 | 8.98 | 4.86 |
| India | 4.51 | 0.76 | 0.60 | 9.37 | 1.20 | 7.12 | 1.20 | 50.51 | 8.18 | 4.33 |
| China | 2.79 | 0.47 | 0.37 | 4.43 | 0.77 | 4.41 | 0.75 | 31.30 | 5.07 | 2.30 |
| Saudi Arabia | 0.44 | 0.09 | 0.06 | 0.95 | 0.15 | 0.81 | 0.12 | 5.00 | 0.95 | 0.43 |
The figures in bold are actual average fuel prices.
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Post CommentSSA
On June 17, 2008 at 9:24 am
Heres one for you..Zimbabwe Z$78 000 000 (seventy eight million!) dollars per litre!
Jotter Scalems
On June 17, 2008 at 9:29 am
That’s still cheap actually, SSA given the exchange rate.
Interesting topic, but since you said all over the world in the title, I found it a bit disappointing to read only about 5 countries. Surely people who don’t speak English also use petrol.
nobert soloria bermosa
On June 17, 2008 at 10:03 am
it’s P54/liter here-that is about $1.25
Debra - Toronto, Canada
On June 18, 2008 at 10:23 am
Regular Unleaded is $1.32 CAD per litre today (Jun 18/08)
Diesel is $1.49 CAD per litre
Matt
On June 18, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Hmmm… the UK one is quite interesting, round where i am i think it’s something like £1.08 per litre of Petrol. The high prices are only because we have taxes on it (goverment got greedy) but without taxes it would same price as US near about that. Whenever i go to this one place you pass a gas station and it is closed and it is showing the price of 70p a litre now that was prices from years ago.
Andromeda
On June 19, 2008 at 8:28 am
Very informative Hein, thank you. I has the ingnorant notions that America was suffering from the worst gas price rate but I was totally mistaken. I would love to visit the UK and Ireland someday but I will be sure to take the public transporation to get around there.
Matt
On June 19, 2008 at 10:19 am
Andromeda taking the public route is going to get you stuck in the middle of no where as it is rubbish and over crowded, Just checked back to see some more countries listed and found that Saudi Arabia have crazy small prices! I think i might move to there to get the cheap petrol.
chris Wakeford
On July 3, 2008 at 7:22 am
You are all being hoodwinked by a brillant system..
If we all stayed at home for 3 months and stopped using our cars and flying- the system would play a new game….you wont and they know that
Hence you will pay to build a trillion dollar game called- build us a triiion dollar new super economy…and NO thanks…
Well done guys!!
manjunath
On July 9, 2008 at 9:08 am
rates are too high and the government is going to rise the prises
Dayanand
On July 9, 2008 at 9:12 am
when we stop the use of the vehicles then the prise of the petrolium products will be low.
instead of the use of the petrolium vehicles if we use the cycles electric vehicles it is very helpful to save the environment.
rob
On July 12, 2008 at 5:02 pm
So why not put some money into an oil stock and get something back?
ladyt
On May 22, 2009 at 7:40 pm
where in the world is gas 58 cents per litre
akshay ramdas adsul
On January 1, 2012 at 10:01 am
i want nowdays plz send wnt for projject.