Massive drop in SA petrol price coming in August – if you can get it

[BusinessTech]

Massive drop in SA petrol price coming in August – if you can get it

South African motorists can expect a big drop in the price of petrol in August - however, a strike by workers in the petroleum industry could lead to a fuel shortage.

 

[Slootvreter]

How much?

 

[Drifter]

96c a litre for petrol and 70c for diesel.

 

[Slootvreter]

As good as that is...yay. R50 per tank. Meh. Not enough.

 

[Priapus]

As good as that is...yay. R50 per tank. Meh. Not enough.

It will go up again in September and the strike will be blamed for it.

 

[Slootvreter]

It will go up again in September and the strike will be blamed for it.

Yup. Always something. In three months' time it would have gone up more than this drop.

 

[Necropolis]

It will go up again in September and the strike will be blamed for it.

how is the strike going to be used as a justification for the fuel price?

R/$ exchange and the international oil price, sure. But some truck drivers demanding more money; not so much.

 

[Priapus]

how is the strike going to be used as a justification for the fuel price?

R/$ exchange and the international oil price, sure. But some truck drivers demanding more money; not so much.

This is SA. Where our politicians promise to investigate where lighting comes from. Where our president didn't even go to school... anything is possible.

 

[Hemi300c]

Isn't it funny and I think the anc is playing games wanting us to fill up because of a strike at the old price. I think they just want the extra cash.

 

[Slootvreter]

Isn't it funny and I think the anc is playing games wanting us to fill up because of a strike at the old price. I think they just want the extra cash.

Either no political party benefits from the petrol, or all of them do, because I don't see any of them making a stink about it.

 

[ToxicBunny]

This is SA. Where our politicians promise to investigate where lighting comes from. Where our president didn't even go to school... anything is possible.

That would require a fundamental change in the calculation of the petrol price. It is a fairly well set equation...

 

[akescpt]

lovely ill wait till it goes down to fill up. fuk this strike...

 

[ToxicBunny]

lovely ill wait till it goes down to fill up. fuk this strike...

As it stands now, depending on the distribution network, that might be a retarded choice...

SAPREF for instance has shut down.... so its not actually making any fuel at the moment. Will be filling up this evening.

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

The strike will end in time for a petrol price hike, no matter how long it takes...

 

[supersunbird]

Some of the commentators on here regarding how the fuel price is determined... :erm:

 

[Agent_Smith]

And in unrelated news, a massive drop in available fuel expected...

 

[Ho3n3r]

As it stands now, depending on the distribution network, that might be a retarded choice...

SAPREF for instance has shut down.... so its not actually making any fuel at the moment. Will be filling up this evening.

I've never filled up when they threaten these strikes, and I've always been able to get fuel when the strike has started, somewhere close as well.

IMO it's more retarded for everyone to jump the gun.

 

[ToxicBunny]

I've never filled up when they threaten these strikes, and I've always been able to get fuel when the strike has started, somewhere close as well.

IMO it's more retarded for everyone to jump the gun.

I'm not suggesting anyone jump the gun... I'm suggesting that unnecessarily waiting might be stupid.

SAPREF probably has about 4 days of fuel in stock, beyond that and its down to the local stations and their tanks...

 

[akescpt]

As it stands now, depending on the distribution network, that might be a retarded choice...

SAPREF for instance has shut down.... so its not actually making any fuel at the moment. Will be filling up this evening.

http://www.fin24.com/Companies/Indu...erations-at-sas-largest-oil-refinery-20160728

Cape Town - South Africa's largest refinery, jointly operated by Shell and BP, has not shut down due to a worker's strike over wages, a spokesperson said on Thursday, contradicting an earlier union claim.

"The plant has not stopped production and we have measures in place to ensure continued safe operation during the national CEPPWAWU strike," Cindy Govender said.

A senior union official had said the refinery, situated in the east coast Durban port and capable of refining 190 000 barrels per day of crude oil, had come to a "standstill" on the first day of an indefinite wage strike by the Chemical, Energy, Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied Workers union (CEPPWAWU).

i put some in yesterday morning. before the strike news. else i will walk to work

 

[supersunbird]

This thread remind me of the other thread (last November?) where someone was going on about how the price ALWAYS increases for December before the holiday period and then the MyBB Fact Police (aka me) had to show that it had in fact dropped 60% of the time at the beginning of December, over a 10 year period.