Avg price of fuel 1989-2009 !!

[H100S]

Put £20 in the car the other day and noticed the dial did not move very far. Got me thinking when I bought my first car in 1999 I could fill the tank for less than £30 seems I am correct. Corsa 1.2 40L tank at 70.2p was a £28 fill up. Same car today would cost over £50

Tax % is interesting though, up and down so much. Would be nice if anyone knew the 2010 and 2011 avg price.

Changing price of Fuel

year/petrol pence/diesel pence/petrol tax%/diesel tax%

1989 38.5 36.1 59.6% 62.8%
1990 42.3 40.4 58.0% 60.9%
1991 45.4 44.0 62.3% 62.9%
1992 46.2 45.4 65.2% 64.7%
1993 49.3 49.2 66.8% 65.7%

1994 50.7 50.9 71.0% 69.8%
1995 53.5 53.7 74.0% 73.7%
1996 56.4 57.4 76.1% 75.0%
1997 61.8 62.5 77.3% 76.6%
1998 64.8 65.5 81.4% 81.8%

1999 70.2 72.5 81.4% 83.0%
2000 79.9 81.3 75.6% 75.2%
2001 75.7 77.8 76.1% 74.4%
2002 73.2 75.5 77.5% 75.6%
2003 76.0 77.9 75.6% 74.1%

2004 80.9 82.5 73.1% 72.0%
2005 87.2 91.3 68.9% 66.5%
2006 92.0 95.7 66.2% 64.2%
2007 95.0 97.4 66.3% 65.0%
2008 107.5 118.1 61.7% 57.5%

2009 108.3 109.9 65.9% 65.1%

And its going to get worse!!

[richrebel]

Just goes to show how much we are overtaxed for petrol, I can't believe it was less than 50p a litre when I was born. It is now at least £1.26 here so why has it gone so far above the rate of inflation.

[Z064life]

richrebel said:

Just goes to show how much we are overtaxed for petrol, I can't believe it was less than 50p a litre when I was born. It is now at least £1.26 here so why has it gone so far above the rate of inflation.

£1.26 is less than the cost here in NW London.

Those stats (avg cost) depress me. 1986 it was <40p!

[mybrainhurts]

Using those percentages of PRICE PAID lets the government off the hook.

Expressed as a percentage of the selling price (pre tax), it nearly hit 200% once.

I believe it's 170% at the moment.

Banditry in its purest form.

[The Flying Ox]

You youngsters.

I remember filling my Chevette up for about £14 when I was 17. 4-star was 36.5p a litre.

[Balmoral Green]

I'm not defending the price of petrol here, but the average wage in 1989 was £7975, so to a fair degree, it's all relative.

1989, ave wage £7975, petrol ave 41p litre.
2011, ave wage £25900, petrol ave 130p litre.

It looks about the same to me, or is petrol actually less now as a proportion of income?

How much was milk or a telly twenty years ago, in relative terms?

[skyline501]

36p per litre, pah! It used to be 3s 4d per gallon when we went to the coast as youngsters.

[nightflight]

45P a gallon, not a litre, when I started driving. Mind you, I was only earning £17 per week. A massive rip off all the same. When are we taking to the streets?

[F i F]

skyline501 said:

36p per litre, pah! It used to be 3s 4d per gallon when we went to the coast as youngsters.

:Monty Python Yorkshireman:

When I were a lad, if you asked for a quid's worth, by 'eck that was being utterly flash.

[VR6 Eug]

My 1979 1100 mini cost £12 to fill up in 1989. That would be £48 in 2025!

[cronie007]

Mental how much it's changed. I remember filling my Fiesta for £25 in 2003 and thinking that was expensive. Now £50 barely gets you half a tank in most cars. The tax percentage swings are wild too peak 81% in '98-'99, dropped to 57% during the 2008 spike. Duty stayed flat while crude oil went mental.

[sixor8]

Apart from the fact this is a 14 year bump , fuel is now the same price as it was in 2014. There were dips in 2016 and 2020 (Covid) but also a spike up in 2022 post Ukraine invasion. It's why the 5p freeze from 2011 is to come off this year.

https://www.racfoundation.org/data/uk-pump-prices-...