Petrol fell Rs1.60 to Rs377.71 a litre while high-speed diesel rose Rs1.64 to Rs391.75, leaving diesel dearer than petrol by Rs14.04.
Both reconcile against yesterday: Rs379.31 less Rs1.60, and Rs390.11 plus Rs1.64.
Diesel dearer than petrol by the widest margin this month
Diesel is now Rs14.04 dearer than petrol — up from Rs10.80 yesterday, and from a position on 8 October when diesel was briefly cheaper by Rs1.71.
The gap has moved Rs15.75 in fifteen days.
Four of the last five
Diesel has risen in four of the last five revisions: +31 paisas, +53 paisas, +31 paisas, and now +Rs1.64. The single exception was the Rs7.69 cut on 20 October, which reversed the next day.
Petrol over the same period has fallen in four of five.
This newspaper has made this point through the month and it now has a cumulative weight worth stating plainly: the fuel that sets the price of goods is getting steadily more expensive while the fuel that sets the price of commuting is getting cheaper.
Diesel moves freight, tractors, buses and generators. Its cost reaches every item that travels by road.
Why
The two price off different international products — gasoline and gasoil — and gasoil is being bid up by a Gulf conflict that is now disrupting the infrastructure around the Strait of Hormuz.
Prices are revised daily.
Where this shows up for a household
Diesel moves freight, tractors, buses and generators, so diesel dearer than petrol reaches the price of goods rather than the cost of commuting.
The effect arrives with a lag of weeks and does not reverse when the gap narrows, because transport contracts reprice upward more readily than down.
[Image: The Express Tribune.]
Sources: ARY News.
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