/ 2 January 2001

PETROL PRICE PLUMMETS

THE retail price of petrol will fall by 10 cents per litre on Wednesday, the department of mineral and energy affairs said on Friday. The wholesale price of diesel will fall by 19 cents per litre and that of illuminating paraffin by 22 cents per litre. From that date, 93-octane petrol will cost 362 cents per litre in Gauteng and 351 cents at the coast.