Future fuel price. - barney100

With many people getting EVs the demand for petrol and diesel will presumably decrease. I don't know which way prices will go...any thoughts?

Future fuel price. - Andrew-T

Depending on how much petroleum is made into motor fuel, perhaps a refinery will close somewhere. But there remains a demand for plastics, detergents, (etc) and refineries will make adjustments to their process. Presumably competition between outlets will still happen ?

Future fuel price. - madf

Half the world will still use petrol and diesel in new cars in 10 years time.

Future fuel price. - RT

Depending on how much petroleum is made into motor fuel, perhaps a refinery will close somewhere. But there remains a demand for plastics, detergents, (etc) and refineries will make adjustments to their process. Presumably competition between outlets will still happen ?

It's not easy for individual refineries to adjust their process to vary their product mix which depends heavily on the refinery design - so refineries will close as world demand drops but rely on global shipping of the end products

Future fuel price. - Adampr

The price is set by a cartel that throttles supply when demand decreases. It's not getting cheaper anytime soon

Future fuel price. - movilogo

With many people not getting EVs any more, the demand will be there - so price will only go up. Even if it does down, govt will add tax to keep it going up.

Future fuel price. - Terry W

Based upon the outlook for the UK - the global picture may differ.

Demand for fuel (petrol and diesel) fall gradually over 20 years - new ICE sales will continue until 2035, and those sold towards the end may be running a decade or more after that.

The main impact will be to limit new investment in wells and refining so that capacity broadly follows demand, and modify if possible remaining refineries to change the fractions produced.

More critical than future fuel prices is what happens to oil producing nations. Those which make an implement plans for a sustainable future with reduced oil incomes will be fine. But global stability will be threatened by oil states which don't adapt.