Thursday, 14 March 2024

Thursday, March 14/2024

The price of petrol at the pumps has just increased slightly today. It’s government controlled and there are two grades. The lower one is now 34.95 Turkish lira a litre ($1.47 CAD, €1, £0.85) and the higher one 35.95 tl ($1.51 CAD, €1.03, £0.88). Diesel is priced the same as the higher grade petrol.The interesting bit from a Canadian viewpoint is that the octane ratings are much higher here in North Cyprus. The lower grade is 95 and the higher 98. In Canada regular gasoline has an octane rating of 87 and premium 91. 

Having said which, nothing is quite as simple as it sounds. Well, the currency conversions are. That bit is pretty accurate, for today at least. Watch the lira and hold onto your hat. Octane is more complicated. North America and Europe don’t use the same system to measure it and unfortunately there isn’t a conversion scale. There are actually advantages to both systems, but they are different. And higher octane numbers aren’t better under all circumstances. If you are nerdy enough to want to pursue this, the following explanation isn’t bad:


https://www.autotrader.ca/editorial/20171117/fuel-octane-numbers-explained/