[sustran] Re: Full Version of International Fuel Prices - 2007 - [GTZ -SUTP]

[Lee Schipper]

I suggested strongly to GTZ last year and repeated again in a meeting yesterday that this wor would be worth a great deal more if 1) prices were given in real local currency, base 2000 (a base for making conversion) and then shown in comparison in 2000 US Dollars using the year 2000 purchasing power parity coefficients published by the World Bank or OECD. Comparisons using market exchange rates or nominal values hide huge distortions that purchasing power  parity aims to correct.

The problem with the current formulation is that the amount of work required to deflate and re-convert is huge, since the values  in US dollars are in current $, so each year has to be converted back to original currency and then convered to some common base.

Lee Schipper
Director of Research
EMBARQ, the WRI Center
for Sustainable Transport
10 G St. NE
Washington DC, 20002
+1202 729 7735
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>>> sksunny at gmail.com 03/27/07 2:20 AM >>>
/Full Version of International Fuel Prices - 2007/

GTZ released the full version of the publication titled â  International 
Fuel Prices â   2007â  . The document is based on the survey in Mid-November 
2006 and contains information on the diesel and gasoline (petrol) prices 
from more than 170 countries. This full version publication focuses on 
the aspects of enhancing the energy efficiency authored by Dr Axel 
Friedrich and Falk Heinen (German Federal Environmental Agency) and the 
cost of promoting bio-fuels authored by Joerg Peters (RWI) and Dr. 
Sascha Thielmann (GTZ).

The document is available for download from the Sustainable Urban 
Transport website (links below). People accessing from China may visit 
the second link below.

All Users (Except from China): 
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=339&lang=en 
<http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=339&lang=en>

Users from China: 
http://www.sutp.cn/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=244&lang=en 
<http://www.sutp.cn/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=244&lang=en>
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Note: Prior registration (free) is required to download the document.
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Kind regards
Sunny
GTZ-SUTP