Proposal to reduce petroleum consumption country-wide

das - 2-MAR-2013

Would it make sense for Praja to spearhead a proposal to fix the country's fiscal and current account deficit problems by moving to less fuel-intensive modes of transportation country-wide ? Taken to the central govt., RBI, economic think tanks, etc.

Do we need fuel-gurgling Air Shows & Motor Races?

Vasanthkumar Mysoremath - 11-FEB-2013

Scientific predictions on Future availability of natural resources - Oil/Fuel :

- By 2022, get ready to pay Rs.720+ per litre of petrol and Rs.200+ per litre of diesel and consequential increase in transport and cascading effect on prices of all commodities.

Hike in bulk diesel price : Will it lead to black market ?

Sanjeev - 21-JAN-2013

The government's decision to allow market rates for bulk users of diesel will result in a 15% increase in costs for commercial entities such as IT parks, malls, hotels and large office buildings. Bulk buyers who use diesel to run generators during power cuts will now have to pay roughly 60 per litre of diesel against 49 earlier.

High petrol prices in Karnataka - why, and where does it go?

silkboard - 9-OCT-2012

Petrol prices were reduced this week to adjust for rupee dollar exchange rate softening. However, back in May, our CM had promised to look into cut in cess on petrol prices, here:

Fuel Subsidies, Road user fee - Common sense prevails, At Last

Naveen - 22-DEC-2011

Some positive developments - long overdue, though not very comforting for the car-dependent public in bangalore. Following are excerpts from an on-line headline news portal :

Car Mileage and more!

srinidhi - 24-AUG-2011

Was at the service centre the other day and was discussing ways to improve mileage of cars. One of the thoughts that came up was with the visits to the petrol pump. My habit is to have less than quarter tank full at any refill point(on my daily commute)..

Solid waste to energy - BBMP's first plant ready?

silkboard - 19-JUN-2011

Noticed an interesting tender from BBMP last week. It calls for:

Request for proposal (RFP) for Development and Operation of facility for conversion of mixed Municipal Waste Plastics to Fuel – 10TPD Capacity on (BOT) basis.

Prices do the trick to control traffic

mcadambi - 15-FEB-2011

Prices do what we can't other wise do!

http://www.hindu.com/2011/02/15/stories/2011021557200200.htm

Three cheers to higher fuel prices! :-)

Customer Service at Indian Oil petrol bunks

Bheema.Upadhyaya - 19-NOV-2010

Recently I had interaction with Indian Oil help desk due to my observation at filling station under IOC logo. Here is what happened and outcome. Should not consider this post against that specific filling station, most of the observations are common and not only experience by me, but most of us.

Location : Singasandra, Hosur Road 

Observations :

High petrol prices - 59% levies in Bangalore, where does it all go?

Transmogrifier - 7-JUL-2010

[Promoting Transmogrifier's comment to a separate 'crowdsourcing' post - we need to know what is happening to the various taxes and cess that makes petrol so expensive for us. 59% of fuel price is levies, where is it all going today? Do share if you know.]

@ PublicAgenda, while conspiracy theorists make for good movie-making, it's time (like many here are suggesting) that we look at why we pay so much as in the way of levies (59%?) and much worse, get so little. Let's take two examples:

1. In one of the most capitalistic of societies, federal and state taxes, on average, are about 45.6c/gallon (for petrol) or 16.7% at today's price of unleaded petrol. What do you get for that? For 18.4c out of that (or 6-7%) you get 75,000 km of Interstate system on which you could cover 950km (that's the distance to Chennai... and back...and then back again) in 9.5hrs.