Price Of Petrol

[sumar]

Does anyone know what year was petrol 65p a litre please?

[ToraToraTora]

I can remember when it was 33p a gallon!

[retrocop]

Crikey ToraToraTora.What were you driving then? A Chariot!!!!

[bert_h]

I think it was about 54p in 1988/9 when we switched to a car using diesel at 48p.

[ToraToraTora]

anout 1971 before the opec crisis, I remember because my dad used to buy a pounds worth and it was just over 3 gallons. Funny thing is dad went on for years and years buying a pounds worth just getting less and less. I remember once he had an XJ12 with 2 tanks and put 50p in each!

[Old_Geezer]

I'd guess early seventies since I'm aware the price has doubled since the late seventies now.

[DJHawkes]

65p a litre? probably about 1999/2000

[DJHawkes]

I can remember Dad saying it will be £1 a litre before long and we thought that would be ridiculous.

[Gizmonster]

I have the answer:

My missus keeps a record of petrol she puts in her car and has had the same book ..... forever (she really is that sad)

I've just been out and had a look in the book and on 3rd July 1997 unleaded petrol was 64.9p per litre .... prices may vary slightly from region to regon - we're in NW England.

[Toureman]

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=2&;ved=0CDUQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.parliament.uk%2Fbriefing-papers%2Fsn04712.pdf&ei=nExNUpz4O4ay0QXnoYFg&usg=AFQjCNEXdTrX1uI_eRaRcdYnanVcRXxMxQ&bvm=bv.53537100,d.d2k

page 20 gives the price of petrol since 1820

[gingejbee]

I'm able to tell you when I paid 65p a litre for petrol (sad, or what?)....late 1997 through to mid-1998.....it was up ad down a lot around that time!

[gingejbee]

I'm amused that anybody would think "early seventies"....a good 25 years out!

[Old_Geezer]

Must have gone up and back down again then. I recall it being seventy odd pence a litre in the seventies. To have doubled in just over a decade is worse than I thought.

[ToraToraTora]

Petrol was till priced in gallons till up until the early eighties OG. I stand to be corrected of course.

[gingejbee]

I think that some people are confusing "per litre" with "per gallon". Petrol was NEVER over £3 a gallon in the seventies.

[frugalfred]

1965 - first car - BMC Mini - petrol 4s 3d. per gallon. Four gallons and still got change from a pound note. (Salary £630 per annum!)

[Old_Geezer]

If so then that ends all arguments about it being cheaper than ever these days. 100% increase in 13 years ? That's around %5 pa when average inflation would have been what, about 3% ?

[jno]

if you look at Tourman's link, it doesn't really go up by an average, much more in fits and starts, with big jumps in 1999 and 2009. But 1999ish seems to be the answer.

[Gizmonster]

I've looked at that link and to be honest, I don't know where them figures come from.
Like I said in my original post, my missus keeps a record of all the petrol she puts in her car - her book dates back to 1992. Petrol is prob about average price here (compared to the rest of the UK) and my missus always shops around for EVERYTHING to get the best price. If she was paying 64.9p per litre in 1997, I can assure you it wasn't on sale for any less than that - not round here anyway .......

[cupotee]

Our first car in the 1960's was a Ford Prefect. We'd buy 4 gallons for a £1. No idea how much that would be in litre's tho.

Nowt to do with the original question but shows how its risen.