2. Petroleum products are useful materials derived from
crude oil as it is processed in refineries.
It is estimated that world consumes around 88 million
barrels of each day.
Petroleum is derived from two words:
Petra which means rock
Oleum which means Oil in Latin
3. India consumes petroleum products of 4 lakh crores
per annum.
Growth of petroleum products was at 2.6% per annum
in the Xth plan (2002-07) when the economy is
growing at 8% per annum.
Projected growth rate of India is about 2.4% per
annum till 2030.
5. United States 1,91,50,000
China 94,00,000
Japan 44,52,000
India 31,82,000
6. Increase in Oil price leads to transfer of Income from
importing country to the exporting country.
Decrease in oil prices leads to be positive for importing
countries and negative for exporting countries.
Impact of Oil price increase for exporter country:
Directly increases the real national income through
higher export earnings.
7. Impact on Oil importer country:
Direct effect on Income losses from hike in price of
petroleum products.
Impact at the micro level:
Increase in price of petrol diesel.
Increase in price of LPG
Increased prices leaves the household to spend less money on
other goods and services.
8. Increase in Inflation:
Directly affect the prices of goods made with petroleum
products.
Indirectly affect the costs of
Transportation, Manufacturing and Energy production
etc.
Increase in these costs has direct affect on variety of
goods as producers pass their costs incurred on
consumers.
9. Increase in Oil prices can depress the supply of other
goods as they increase the cost of producing them.
Increase in oil prices also affects the demand of goods
because people are left with less money to spend on
other goods.
10. Higher production costs.
Lower Income for the companies.
Higher subsidies provided to them by government.
Increase in price of petroleum products.
11. India’s subsidy billed zoomed to 2.16 trillion or 2.5% of
GDP.
It was because of two reasons:
High crude oil prices.
Fertilizers subsidy primarily on account of imported non
urea fertilizers.
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13. If crude oil price goes up or down Inflation moves in
the same direction.
If crude oil prices increases it directly affects the
inflation rate, for eg. When the prices of crude oil went
to the high of more than $100 per barrel it also affected
the inflation which was around 12.28% which was
highest in past two decades.
14. When oil prices increases it affects the following:
Inflation Increases.
Government subsidy bill increases.
Foreign currency reserve reduce.
Exports become weaker.
Investment decreases.
GDP is affected negatively.