Petrol and diesel prices diverged again: petrol fell Rs2.71 to Rs379.31 a litre while high-speed diesel rose 31 paisas to Rs390.11.
Both reconcile against yesterday: Rs382.02 less Rs2.71 gives Rs379.31, and Rs389.80 plus 31 paisas gives Rs390.11.
The gap is the widest this month
Diesel is now Rs10.80 dearer than petrol — above the Rs10.66 reached on 17 October, and a long way from 8 October when diesel was briefly cheaper by Rs1.71.
The pattern in petrol and diesel prices is now unmistakable
Across October this newspaper has recorded petrol swinging substantially in both directions while diesel grinds upward in small increments.
Petrol over the last four revisions: −Rs5.16, +Rs0.88, −Rs2.71. Diesel over the same span: −Rs7.69, +Rs0.53, +Rs0.31.
Strip out the single large diesel cut on 20 October — which lasted one day before reversing — and diesel has risen in almost every revision this month.
Diesel sets freight, tractor and generator costs, and feeds directly into food prices. Petrol moves cars and motorcycles. A headline describing today as fuel price relief would be describing the wrong fuel.
Dates
ARY News labels these rates effective 21 October; they follow yesterday’s 21 October revision and are the rates for the 22nd. PSO’s page has lagged a day throughout the month.
Prices are revised daily.
Why the two move apart
Petrol and diesel prices are set off different international products — gasoline and gasoil — so they can move in opposite directions on the same day.
Gasoil is the one being bid up by disruption around the Strait of Hormuz, which is why the fuel that carries freight keeps rising while the fuel that carries commuters keeps falling.
[Image: The Express Tribune.]
Sources: ARY News, Pakistan State Oil.
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