Two new charts today! The first chart shows the usual gasoline and diesel pump prices – on the left axis – for 2017 to date. But this time, the price of a barrel of oil for 2017 to date is now shown on the right axis. The second chart has the same pricing info, but…
Read More Gasoline, Diesel and a Barrel of OilFor this post, I was curious about the prices of oil during 2015 through 2017 relative to the prices of gas and diesel in Barbados during the same period. The United States Energy Information Administration website has a ton of pricing data, so I pulled WTI and Brent crude oil prices from their website: With these prices…
Read More Barbados Fuel Prices RevisitedOn November 3 I wrote about the possibility – based on past data – of a price change in November for gasoline and diesel. That change occurred on November 6. Gasoline fell from $3.38 to $3.19 BDS per litre and diesel rose from $2.37 to $2.52 BDS per litre. The chart below shows the price of…
Read More Fuel Prices Jan 2015 to Nov 2017If past data is any indicator of future events, then Barbadians should expect a change in the price of fuel within a few days. The price of fuel (gasoline and diesel) has changed every month for 2017 with changes usually occurring within the first two weeks of every month (see table below). Of the 10…
Read More November Fuel Price ChangeBased on data obtained from the September 2017 edition of the Speedtest Global Index, Barbados has the highest download speeds for fixed broadband in the Caribbean (45 Mbps). From a global perspective (131 countries), Singapore was ranked number 1 with download speeds of 156 Mbps and Venezuela was at the bottom of the table with 3.42…
Read More Barbados Leads in Caribbean Fixed Broadband Rankings