The rising costs of food and fuel in Poland and the effects on disposable income/economy

well, people still walk a lot in NYC

Here some good news:

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There is no minimum wage in Germany for most manual labor jobs.

Put some fuel in the car today and i can confirm that Orlen are currently charging 4.95 PLN / liter of unleaded 95. ON Diesel comes in at 4.69 PLN.

4.95 PLN = £1.07 or 1.27 EUR or $ (actually forget the US gallon)

That is correct according to this table: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_wages_by_country

Is yours supercharged? Do you know if you can run LPG in a supercharged engine?


Most licensed professions have a minimum wage depending on which union you're a member of....but unions aren't that popular in the "under the table labor job market".

Now that said, when you get done paying for rent and transportation, those workers might be better off staying in Poland..

So only about 5-10p cheaper per litre than here in the UK. Though I have seen some stupid prices such as £1.56per litre.


Yes they can, but if it's not done properly then it can be extremely dangerous. We converted our old Excaliburs and Tiffanys to LPG.

The rule of thumb used to be around 15% - 20% cheaper in Poland depending on the exchange rate. The last couple of years its been all over the place. I remember Feb last year the Zloty hit 4.15 to the £1.

wow, here it's $2.99 a gallon today. So you guys pay $6.52 a gallon.

Ah the good olde days when I could take 7pln for my £1, shame those days are in the past. Where is Milky when I need some hope of an impending economic meltdown in Poland, I've been waiting years for this to happen :D

yeh, you said that before on this thread.

If the US gov could get away with whacking some tax on that, would really help the deficit.

it changes though (it hasn't since about a week but usually it does every 2-3 days)


even better would be to quit helping other countries as long as we need to help ourselves.

Well the pay is sh1t looads more than Poland.

worldsalaries.org/germany.shtml

It changes everywhere but i dont think its something that requires a daily update. I'm not about to start watching fuel prices like a stock broker. Unless there's massive fluctuations.


Just cut aid? Come on that all sounds rosey but a few % tax increases here and there will pay dividends later.

Does anyone remember the cost of petrol in PL when it hit, $ 150 a barrel back in 2008.

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Alaska oil reserves expert Lindsey Williams informed that he’d learned recently from two of this longtime friends, both retired top executives of major oil producers, that the price of crude oil, now rising again, is slated to move to $150-200 per barrel soon.

Ethanol is not an answer.


At the cost of?


No it doesn't.Engine running on ethanol is about one third LESS efficient than engine running on gasoline.

just filling out my kilometres for the week and began asking myself why the km rate for tax hasn't changed even though fuel prices have jumped.

Global politics doesnt work that way GW. It would be great if it did, its all about global power, MONEY, being the predominate factor but lately and even more important are resources. The future of nations depends on their resources and accessibility to them.

The powers that be will indeed enslave nations in order to capitalise on resources the same way you would swap a barbie doll for a marble.

I'm sorry but the world just doesnt work the way you see it, America, Europe, Asia theyre all the same one no better than the other. All striving for the same things.

Should the government introduce a food price stabilization policy? I ask because rising petrol prices have led to a campaign to drop the planned increase in fuel duty, and to introduce a fuel price stabilizer. But this raises the question: why should the government stabilize petrol but not food prices?
I ask because, for the average family, it is food prices - more than petrol - that is squeezing their living standards. This is because food has a greater weight in spending than petrol (9.6% vs. 4.1%), and so food's 4.9% increase in the last 12 months has raised CPI inflation by more than petrol's 10.1% rise.

stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2011/01/which-to-stabilize-food-or-petrol.html

"Something" needs to be done; a significant number of Polish people are on the bread-line; meanwhile back at the parliament, Tusk is sitting on his hands, while the opposition are still (cryblaming)crying over the plane crash and crosses( The daft in the west are passively wrong, while the daft in the east are passionately wrong). The Polish need to wake up to the 21st century and leave the dark ages behind.

Can any person advice for 120 km running everyday what fuel is cheaper in car and what are the cost?

Buy a vehicle that already has a gas conversion.

But what will be the cost of gas for 120 km daily

It's impossble to say - tell us where to/from and I can tell you.

Depends on the car, too.

Dear delphiandomine,

Thanks. From Poznan to Wrzesnia. I know it depned on car. Take a normal car which a medium class person afford.

Depends where about in Poznan you're commuting from, but let's say that you're living in the Polanka estate (probably the best location for someone like you). If so, I'd assume about 50zl daily for commuting - or if you use the motorway (though there's not much point when driving to Wresznia) - 76zl.

Dear delphiandomine,

You are saying for 120 KM from Gas operated car the cost will be 50zl daily. What is motorway is it two wheelear?

Between the property bubble, petrol prices,unemployment and 2 euro an hr minimum wage, how is Poland keeping its head above the water?

milky, you sound like a broken record.

Several posters on PF have shown us unequivocally that there is no property bubble. Now, the fact that other posters don't react, doesn't mean they didn't read the entries and have made up their own mind, having had a look at the links others have provided.

Your insistence that their is a property bubble while others have shown again and again that there isn't, makes you look like someone with a chip on your shoulder at best and a complete idiot at worst.

Harry, you got anything invested in Polish real estate?

Not unless you count the flat where I live. I don't view that so much as an investment as a reduction of costs (I take the approach of why pay rent when pretty much the same sum when paid to the bank as repayment and interest leads to one owning the property eventually) and also, if I wanted to sell it, I'd still need to live somewhere!