Sudafrica : Petrol price

CARTOON: Petrol price is a really scary picture

06-SEP-2012 | SOWETAN EDITORIAL |

MOTORISTS must now surely be dreading a trip to the filling station. The nation woke up this week to petrol pump pricing fast approaching record levels.

The inland price of 93 high octane is now R11.97, 93c more than they would have paid at 11.59pm the previous day. It was the biggest single increase in a month since the country became exposed to the vagaries of the open global market.

Yet the farther you drive inland, the steeper the price becomes at the pumps.- More...