There has been no bleating about baht bus increases or higher motorbike taxi fees, only Thai airways increasing rates

I have just filled my car at 50.1baht per litre [A$1.63] Yes I am aware that the Thais use gallons and I cannot do the conversion, but I am interested to see whether the Government is subsidising some of the costs.

lonelywombat wrote:

There has been no bleating about baht bus increases or higher motorbike taxi fees, only Thai airways increasing rates

I have just filled my car at 50.1baht per litre [A$1.63] Yes I am aware that the Thais use gallons and I cannot do the conversion, but I am interested to see whether the Government is subsidising some of the costs.

Thais use liters.

Don't know the exact rate off the top of my head, but it is not too different from what you've paid.  Costs me about 2,200 baht to fill my car with diesel.

http://www.eppo.go.th/retail_prices.html

An overview of the average prices in BKK.

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Pattaya Male wrote:

When I clicked on the link above, Firefox said it was a reported attack site. It will not load for my computer's protection

Stange that PM, it loads fine on Microsoft.


George.

Pattaya Male wrote:

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At 38.19B for 1L(lowest price) and 1L= 3.784 Gal then one Gal. = 144.51 Baht at an exch. rate of 0.03006 one Gal. of gas cost 4.35 USD. Not much lower than current US prices.

On CNN today I heard the CEO of Chevron blame high demand in developing Asian countries for the high prices. He did not name countries.

TrongpaiExpat wrote:

At 38.19B for 1L(lowest price) and 1L= 3.784 Gal then one Gal. = 144.51 Baht at an exch. rate of 0.03006 one Gal. of gas cost 4.35 USD. Not much lower than current US prices.

However the British Imperial gallon is bigger :)......

38.19 and 4.546 = 173 baht = £2.60 per gallon.  Today in the UK = £5.86 per gallon.

UK is as we know in litres... 38.19 @ 66.83 = 0.57p per litre. Today in the UK £1.29 per litre.

Petrol prices have gone up.  As they have all over the world.

More worrying is that food prices (especially the price of rice) have shot up.

Some people attribute this to the arrival of China and India on the world market.  HUGE populations there, and, for some crazy reason, they would like to have all the goodies other people have.

Demand increases, and prices go up.  Elementary, my dear Watson.  Especially when you learn that US demand is already back to 2002 levels.

Prices -- and the free market -- work.

I am most interested in the leftist opposition to "increasing supply."  No matter what source is suggested, the Green Wing hates it.  In fact, some Democrats even suggested raising the tax on gas!!

The US has lots of petroleum in environmentally-protected spaces.  Including off-shore drilling.

Why, if coal liquefaction became a national project, the Saudis might be left beating their camels out of frustration.

But -- at the very least -- flex-fuel cars.  I'm driving one right now.  Quoth the salesman: "91 octane, 95 octane, E20 ethanol, or gasohol -- use whatever you like."  And this car is a Honda Civic.

Where is GM on all this??

Well i can tell you in the Uk now we are paying any thing up to 95 BAHT A  LITRE, THATS NEARLY 400 bAHT A GALLON.iTS SHOCKING.
LOLL

markie1 wrote:

Well i can tell you in the Uk now we are paying any thing up to 95 BAHT A  LITRE, THATS NEARLY 400 bAHT A GALLON.iTS SHOCKING.
LOLL

And it MIGHT just give you some second thoughts about "our friends the Saudis."

Henry Cate wrote:

But -- at the very least -- flex-fuel cars.  I'm driving one right now.  Quoth the salesman: "91 octane, 95 octane, E20 ethanol, or gasohol -- use whatever you like."  And this car is a Honda Civic.

And you, apparently, were conned. All modern petrol engined cars can use "91 octane, 95 octane, E20 ethanol, or gasohol", however the petrol consumption will vary considerably as will the life expectancy of some of the engine parts.

"Flex-fuel" cars are ones able to run on different fuels, for example petrol/electric hybrids or dual petrol/NGV.

I agree with the liberals,no drilling,at least not for now.Why should Californians or Floridians have the risk of an oil spill on their pristine beaches?Especially after almost 20 years the supreme court sides with exonn and reduces their liability to only 500 million dollars from 5 billion dollars!  3 days worth of profits!! All those fishermen in Alaska who lost their livelyhood in 1989.      Of course it couldnt have happened to a more deserving group,those alaskans always vote republican.How ironic!

rocket wrote:

I agree with the liberals,no drilling,at least not for now.Why should Californians or Floridians have the risk of an oil spill on their pristine beaches?Especially after almost 20 years the supreme court sides with exonn and reduces their liability to only 500 million dollars from 5 billion dollars!  3 days worth of profits!! All those fishermen in Alaska who lost their livelyhood in 1989.      Of course it couldnt have happened to a more deserving group,those alaskans always vote republican.How ironic!

I beg to disagree.  Especially in the dumb idea that a country's greatness can be told by its kindness to animals.

Governments are for people, not for animals.

"Why should [bla bla] risk an oil spill [bla bla]"

Why should anyone risk anything?  I think instant surrender is the best option, and may the best mullah win.

Unless, of course, you are willing to take action, and roll the dice!

My opinion?  It's free!!  We should pass a Federal Law permitting wind energy off of Senator Kennedy's estate. (He opposes that!  What a GREAT MAN.)

We should develop all of the good wind and solar sites.

We should build lots of nuclear power plants.

We should open the oil shale fields in America, and also drill for oil in Alaska.

We should be going after coal liquefaction in a big way.

Otherwise, we will continue paying trillions of dollars a year to Arab yahoos who still believe in slavery.

Just saying...

By this time next year the price of oil will be in to $70-$90 range- a 50% drop from here.
America will be mired in the second year of a recession and the rest of the world is going down with us.
The much ballyhooed economies of India and China are going down the tubes as we speak.
Sales of oil products will plummet with the faltering world economy and the speculators and hedge funds are going to get their a$$ets reamed out.

High prices are their own cure.