Instead of increasing the prices they should concentrate on how to make every eligible person pay tax, like sales tax, income tax. Also, not everyone at petrol bunks ask for bill so the sales tax on petrol is also not going to Govt. Here, lies the problem.

All we could do is ask the petrol guy for bill even for 10Rs fuel. They could'nt say NO! and that's a responsible Rider and citizen.

P.S: I have a whole lot of information (which would fill 100's of pages of this thread) on where these all money goes and where and upto how much extent this corruptants (our F*$% netajis) are making holes in the pocket of GOVT. and you will be RED HOT to know some of the facts that NO normal citizen knows about, they RAPE the citizens officially and legally, and we even donot know. We couldnot discuss it here on a Biking thread, so PARDON.

Sorry for OT.

Lol...Later I gave it a second thought..Why to leave India just for the sake of Petrol prices

Love the country...

lets just take it this way.
for all the road rules we break.
for all the bribes we pay to escape the consequences of breaking those rules.
this is the price we pay !

it is for normal unleaded fuel.

no buddy in the past, even if the international price were stable still there was hike and when the international price go down the companies don't bother to reduce the price.

this has been 6th or 7th hike this year.

I agree with you.
Dont compare india with those countries. The pricing should not be determined by some budget. It should rather be determined by the average earning of a person. In countries like france or any other such developed country the earning of an average person is far better than india. This fuel price increase would affect all the commodities.
Well am in no way ready to pay such a price.


@all:- Well does that mean even the shell will increase its prices??

P.S.:- Am running towards a nearby petrol bunk before its midnight.
F*&k these congrA$$ guys.

Its better there... in my place it would be 61.51 .... bloody h3LL
I'll be made to forget touring,if this streak continues

Well it would be more than 62 here.

I saved some thirty bucks because of this thread.. Isnt much but still. Am thinking about bicycling to office. Nothing else will work if fuel prices keep on climbing up the ladder.

As somebody rightly pointed out make everybody pay taxes and distribute the burden equally then everything will be affordable in this country. Only the salaried professional is taxed to death in this country

ok ...so if i do a full tank now ....it would be Rs 970
& if i do after 19 min it would be Rs 1020

by the way
this is the main reason that i dont buy SBK

Any hike by Shell? Unleaded already costs Rs.61 here in Bengaluru.

arey even karizma is pinching pockets now.....forget SBK.

HH would see boost in sales of their 100-150cc segment bikes.

Went to a nearby petrol bunk & filled petrol worth 750. My bike gulped down 12.5 litres of petrol. It would be my last time when i would see 59.XX on the meter. Saved nearly Rs.36

In kolkata, after the hike, almost Rs. 60 for normal where as 63/64 for the premium petrol ..

Mate..the free market pricing came into effect this year only. Yes there has been only increases bcos when the pricing came into effect, crude was at $73 per barrel and now its 90. Naturally it has to go up only. If it touches $150 (as it did in the past) think of how its going to cost you.

Well what remains to be seen is if the crude prices go down will the indian petrol price go down is what u should look for!

Mate..u need to get some understnading of how things work, int he first place!!
Firstly, The petrol prices are currently not determined by budget and its not by the government now. Its de-regulated that means it would sort of reflect the international crude prices. The Indian govt can no way influence the petrol prices internationally unless it decides to blow a couple of its own rigs in India and then too the prices would go up only.Its all market economics, my dear friend.

Secondly, if you would need to buy crude in the international market, you simply need to have the money to buy it and no one is really worried on your purchasing power parity there. They dont sell crude at different rates to different countries based on purchasing parity!!!

Thirdly, the petrol price has minimal impact on the commodity prices. Its the diesel prices and the diesel prices are controlled by the government (its regulated)!!

But I get your point, there are a lot of ppl in this country who cannot afford such price rises and the government should protect them from the external forces. Its partly doing its duty by not de-regulating the diesel prices to that extent.*

Its easy to blame the government for everything. Am not saying everything is right with the government.
But de-regulating petrol prices and regulating diesel prices was a good measure by it. What remains to be seen from the de-regulation is whther price will go down when the crude goes south!! We have to wait for that. If it does, its a good measure and if it does not then there is something very fishy about this whole de-regulation.

*- The views expressed here are my own. I dont work for the government either

+1 Well said!

Petrol prices have increased some 35% in this year alone from 45.5 to 61.5+ rupees. Another 10 rupee increase and I will start riding a bicycle.

OT: I can only think of thanking Joel for the works done on my R15 and at an opportune time that. Review coming up in a day on his performance goodies thread.