Dear PetrolWatchers, your kind patience has finally paid off! The long awaited Price History chart is now ready! Instead of the previous teensy weensy chart on the Homepage, we’ve expanded it and placed it on a dedicated page. Lagi best! Wait…there’s more! Instead of a 3 month window, you can view prices across 24 months now as well.

Some of you have requested to map pump prices against crude oil prices. Unfortunately as of now, we’ve not be able to locate any comprehensive data sources. If you know where of one, do share it with us. And as usual, feel free to let us have your feedback and comments on this feature.

Cheers!
The PW Crew

Given the current situation of falling diesel prices, Trans-cab & Comfort Delgro have taken the initiative to remove the 30 cents diesel surcharge on 11 and 12 November 2008 respectively. The price of diesel price has dropped from S$1.83 per litre in July, when the surcharge was introduced, to the current S$1.38 per litre. Other taxi companies have yet to decide on whether to follow suit.

NEWS UPDATE! Taxi companies CitiCab, Premiercab, SMART, SMRT & Prime have also decided to remove the 30 cents surcharge on 12 November 2008

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Oil fell for a third day on Tuesday, dropping almost $1 to near a 17-month low on fears of a global recession, reported Reuters. US light crude for December delivery fell 92 cents or 1.4% to $62.30 a barrel by early Tuesday after touching a low of $61.30 a barrel on Tuesday, its weakest since May 2007.

The Maybank Subaru Platinum Card not only has a nice exterior look, it also gives you a nice 5%  rebate when you pump up at ANY station in Singapore and Malaysia. The card also entitles you to other exclusive Subaru privileges which you can read about here.

Oh, did I mention that you don’t have to own a Subaru to get this card?

Pump prices drop again! That’s twice in 2 weeks and it looks like we might have a few more before the years end. As of 1600 hrs on 23 Oct 2008, we can confirm that all 4 brands have REDUCED petrol & diesel pump prices for all grades by 5 cents in the following order:

Shell - 1400hrs
ExxonMobil - 1500hrs
SPC, Caltex - 1530hrs

Significant changes in prices are reflected in detail and can viewed in the tables below.

World oil prices weakened in Asian trade on Wednesday on renewed worries about energy demand in the face of slowing global growth. New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for December delivery, fell $1.05 to $71.13 a barrel from its close of $72.18 in the US on Tuesday. The contract for November expired on Tuesday, closing at $70.89, reported the The Straits Times.

Just what we needed..more “good” news to help ease the economic gloom…

LTA has conducted its quarterly review of traffic conditions and (guess what!) will be increasing ERP prices once again. On its website, it describes introducing increases of between $0.50 to $1, depending on the locations of the gantries with effect from Monday, 3 November 2008.

Also, for all your eastlanders…the ERP gantries are coming to your neighbourhood! From 3 November 2008, there will be charges for west bound traffic before the Eunos Link entrance from 7 - 8 am.

More details can be found on the LTA website.

Nothing gets sweeter than this. Citibank credit cardmembers can buy the New Moon Superior Bird’s Nest with Rock Sugar at a special price of $30.80 (U.P. $45.05) with minimum $40 Synergy fuel purchase at Esso!

Promotion ends 30 Nov 2008!

Attention all UOB Credit Card and UOB NOW Debit Card holders! For every S$50 charged in a single receipt, you stand a chance to win $1000 in the form of SMART$ redeemable only at Shell stations!

Promotion ends on the 31st of October. Cheers!

SPC&U card holders have another reason to rejoice now! Refuel at any one of the stations listed below and enjoy an additional 4% discount!

• Ang Mo Kio Ave 1
• Braddel Road
• Jalan Leban
• Upper Thomson

Promotion ends 31 October 2008! Enjoy!