{"id":94,"date":"2012-02-14T14:05:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T14:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/?p=94"},"modified":"2014-03-05T16:06:26","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T16:06:26","slug":"plot-of-fuel-prices-against-time-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/finance\/plot-of-fuel-prices-against-time-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Plot of Fuel Prices against time in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Considering the last petrol price increases and the incremental decreases car manufacturers have managed to attain in fuel consumption, I wanted to understand what fuel price history would look like on a graph ( to relate this to some theories).<\/p>\n

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I searched and found a fuel price history sheet on Sasol’s site here<\/a>. It had fuel price changes for the past 10 years bar the last increase. I just added the last increase and pasted the rest from the pdf I got from Sasol. What came out was the flowing (you can click on the image for a larger version):<\/p>\n

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After this , I thought what would be the real value<\/a>\u00a0running costs of an identical vehicle manufactured in 2001 vs one manufactured in 2012. In laymans terms has the petrol cost of running a vehicle changed considering new vehicles are much more fuel efficient or has the effect of the petrol price increased real value running costs? I deal with this question here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Considering the last petrol price increases and the incremental decreases car manufacturers have managed to attain in fuel consumption, I wanted to understand what fuel price history would look like on a graph ( to relate this to some theories).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}