Falling petrol sales
By gljcleeve
@gljcleeve (147)
April 5, 2013 7:12am CST
It's just been announced that petrol sales in the UK have fallen by 20% in the last 5 years.
With the increase in prices and the switch to more efficient, smaller cars and diesel vehicles, does this surprise anyone?
Has the same thing been happening in other countries across the world?
Should we be happy about this or is it too small a thing to really count, especially as a lot of it is simply a switch to diesel?
2 responses
@ShepherdSpy (8544)
• Omagh, Northern Ireland
5 Apr 13
It's hard to say the cause for this,as I don't notice any lessening of traffic on the roads
..are we driving so many more efficient cars to account for the drop? or has there been a shift more towards public transport that I hadn't noticed?
Diesel has always been associated with high milage driving as the economy of buying a diesel car is still more expensive than its petrol equivalent,and it takes higher milage to make the figures work..and there can't have been THAT many EV's or Priuses sold in the UK!
..are we driving so many more efficient cars to account for the drop? or has there been a shift more towards public transport that I hadn't noticed?
Diesel has always been associated with high milage driving as the economy of buying a diesel car is still more expensive than its petrol equivalent,and it takes higher milage to make the figures work..and there can't have been THAT many EV's or Priuses sold in the UK!@gljcleeve (147)
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6 Apr 13
I agree, but apparently there has been quite a significant drop, enough for me to have heard it on the news. LOL
I would say that maybe we are driving more slowly to preserve fuel, but the evidence outside my window doesn't seem to support that either.
And the drop in usage hasn't been great enough for the prices to fall in order to temp us to use more again, that is a certain fact !!! LOL
