Diesel price increase today

[topt]

I have not seen it elsewhere so was a bit surprised when I came across this -

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Diesel shock: Fuel Fund revs prices to 32.44 baht per litre

https://thethaiger.com/news/national/diesel-price-rises-to-32-44-baht-per-litre-from-tomorrow

 

So apparently that is from today........

[Gottfrid]

OOOooooooh! Teerribllleeeee! What more? Another baht up someware? Your joking, right?

 

[billd766]

I paid 32.45 a litre out here in rural Kamphaeng Phet a week ago and we usually pay 1 baht per litre more as we are about 350 km from Bangkok.

 

I think that the extra baht is a sort of delivery charge.

 

It was 30.45 at the start of the year.

 

In January 2023 it was 35.45.

In January 2022 it was 29.26.

In January 2021 it was 25.60.

[FritsSikkink]

Sell your car if you can't afford it.

[still kicking]

2 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

OOOooooooh! Teerribllleeeee! What more? Another baht up someware? Your joking, right?

 

Still cheap I pay 45 in my country

[Gottfrid]

6 hours ago, still kicking said:

Still cheap I pay 45 in my country

Yeah, exactly! Some people just have to complain over everything 🙂 

[worgeordie]

15 minutes ago, Gottfrid said:

Yeah, exactly! Some people just have to complain over everything 🙂 

When the price of Diesel goes up the price of most other things go up to ,

as it has to be delivered by trucks ,don't just think of yourself, a rich Farang,

but of other people scraping by , prices are going up but wages are not....

 

regards Worgeordie

 

[EVENKEEL]

I don't even really pay attention to price. 

[EVENKEEL]

Just now, worgeordie said:

When the price of Diesel goes up the price of most other things go up to ,

as it has to be delivered by trucks ,don't just think of yourself, a rich Farang,

but of other people scraping by , prices are going up but wages are not....

 

regards Worgeordie

 

If I don't think of myself, who will?

[worgeordie]

2 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

If I don't think of myself, who will?

Yeh , I am alright Jack , you don't have anyone that cares a fig about you ?

 

regards Worgeordie

[EVENKEEL]

12 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

Yeh , I am alright Jack , you don't have anyone that cares a fig about you ?

 

regards Worgeordie

Thank you for the kind words.

 

much love,

[Gottfrid]

28 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

When the price of Diesel goes up the price of most other things go up to ,

as it has to be delivered by trucks ,don't just think of yourself, a rich Farang,

but of other people scraping by , prices are going up but wages are not....

 

regards Worgeordie

 

I guess everything goes up, and it has been like that through history, so everyone just need to learn to live with it.

[watchcat]

55 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

When the price of Diesel goes up the price of most other things go up to ,

as it has to be delivered by trucks ,don't just think of yourself, a rich Farang,

but of other people scraping by , prices are going up but wages are not....

 

Just wait until they increase the price for beer in his bar or not to mention the barfines  hahaha

[KhunBENQ]

Today's PTT prices confuse me.

There is no significant rise in B7 which is the standard Diesel fuel.

What's behind "Diesel" without further spec?

Would someone pay more for B10??

 

[KhunBENQ]

The "Super Power" Diesel will hardly go to many pickups.

For the Beamers and Mercs

 

[mancub]

The truckers took to the streets 2 years ago demanding the Government reduce the then bt30 cap to bt25.....

Even this small 50 satang increment may stir 'em up !

[foreverlomsak]

1 hour ago, KhunBENQ said:

There is no significant rise in B7 which is the standard Diesel fuel.

What's behind "Diesel" without further spec?

B7 is not the standard diesel fuel it is 7% Bio-Diesel.

"Diesel" is the bog standard diesel fuel.

B10 would be 10% Bio-Diesel and therefore should be cheaper than B7.

[KhunBENQ]

2 hours ago, foreverlomsak said:

B7 is not the standard diesel fuel it is 7% Bio-Diesel.

In Europe it's THE standard Diesel by EU norm.

From PTT: Diesel B7 at PTT complies with Euro 5 emission standards.

 

And I am not aware that B0 (no bio) has ever been mass produced/sold in Thailand.

You think that "Diesel" is B0?

For a while there was a whole bunch of Diesel variants at PTT, B7, B10 and B20 plus the "super stuff". This has been cut back.

[topt]

2 hours ago, foreverlomsak said:

B7 is not the standard diesel fuel it is 7% Bio-Diesel.

What are you calling "standard"? 

I think we are referring to what gets pumped into most trucks/cars (not agricultural) at most garages and this is as far as I have seen now B7.

2 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

For a while there was a whole bunch of Diesel variants at PTT, B7, B10 and B20 plus the "super stuff". This has been cut back.

Agreed

[KhunBENQ]

Even worse: endless stream of news since last year say that "Diesel" is B20 which is surely not recommended for all Diesel vehicles, B10 discontinued.

And why is more expensive?

Might be due to the fact that "bio" (palm oil for Diesel and ethanol for gasohol) are on short supply/became more expensive. There was a full blown "palm oil crisis" after Indonesia had forbidden exports (I remember rationing of palm oil in super markets!).

 

Stick to B7!

 

 

 

 

[billd766]

13 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

Sell your car if you can't afford it.

What a stupid and pointless post.

 

Please point out and quote from my post, where I said that I can't afford it.

[Robert Paulson]

I hope gas goes sky high maybe all these people speeding around in suv will finally reconsider their behaviors and cars if it does

[Flummoxed]

11 hours ago, billd766 said:

What a stupid and pointless post.

 

Please point out and quote from my post, where I said that I can't afford it.

Honestly, why do people look at the price of fuel? What you going to do, baulk at the price and order your car to run on water? Fuel up, or walk. I had a girlfriend many years ago that would drive 10 miles out of her way to buy fuel a penny cheaper than locally, she just couldn't seem to grasp she lost more money by doing so.

Last month we drove to Koh Chang for a holiday, my wife commenting on the price of 91. What's the point, you burn a hundred liters over a broadly set distance, no matter what the price, and you will always be a slave to that.

It's like the cost of electricity. What are you going to do, switch to coal if cooling the bedroom gets to costly?

 

 

[billd766]

8 hours ago, Flummoxed said:

Honestly, why do people look at the price of fuel? What you going to do, baulk at the price and order your car to run on water? Fuel up, or walk. I had a girlfriend many years ago that would drive 10 miles out of her way to buy fuel a penny cheaper than locally, she just couldn't seem to grasp she lost more money by doing so.

Last month we drove to Koh Chang for a holiday, my wife commenting on the price of 91. What's the point, you burn a hundred liters over a broadly set distance, no matter what the price, and you will always be a slave to that.

It's like the cost of electricity. What are you going to do, switch to coal if cooling the bedroom gets to costly?

 

 

I do it simply because I will then know how much my pickup costs to run every year. I have made a simple excel spreadsheet that ells me how much per km it costs to run, how many km/l average between refuels, how many km/l per month, how much it costs per service and when, how much per annum in repairs.

 

I have been keeping a vehicle logbook since I had a company car back in the 1980s.

 

What you do or don't do is of no interest to me, nor what I do should be of any interest to you.

 

I put those figures up as an example in a response to the OP