Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Petrol prices in Canada

Over the past seven weeks, each time when our car passed a petrol station in Vancouver, Canada. I looked at the price of petrol. There were ups and downs of the prices. The lowest one was about C$98 something for each 100 litres. Yesterday the price rose to C$108.4 for 100 litres (equivalent to HK$7.8 per litre).

The latest prices of petrol in Hog Kong are HK$14.03 per litre (shell unleaded) and HK$14.88 per litre (shell V Power).

I wonder what the prices of petrol in Australia or United States or Japan are recently?

4 comments:

Ho Keung and Yin Ping said...

The unleaded petrol price fluctuates between Aus. $1.13 to $1.28, being the cheapest on Tuesdays and the dearest on Thursdays.

sswat3 said...

Petrol in Australia is slightly dearer than that in Canada.

Go to fill up the tank of your car on a Tuesday then since petrol is cheapest on that day.

Unknown said...

In San Francisco Bay Area gasoline (i.e., petrol) prices fluctuate a lot from day to day. Currently "regular" grade (cheapest) unleaded gasoline is $3.199/gallon or US$0.84/Liter. There are 2 better grades, at $3.299/gal and $3.399/gal respectively (These have better octane numbers.)

Don't how the prices look like when converted to Aus currency.

sswat3 said...

Hi, Felix. Thank you for telling me the current petrol prices in the U.S.

US$1 is equivalent to HK$7.75.
A$1 is equivalent to HK$7.01 today.

By calculation,

the price of petrol per litre (in terms of Australian dollars) in San Francisco
= A$ (0.84 x 7.75 / 7.01)
= A$0.9287 (corr. to 4 sig. fig)

You see, the cheapest kind of petrol in your area is much cheaper than those in Australia and Canada.