No more petrol and health
Do you know, how worrying for “no more petrol” or “saving petrol” is same as worrying about your health? When one tries to save the petrol, means he tries to reduce the use of petrol. Less the use of petrol, more the environment around you, would be free from pollution and so better would be your health, plus, most of time you increase your physical activities to reduce use of petrol, like cycling and walking, that too is going to add on something good in your health, Right? 
So, “no more petrol” add two pluses at the same time, in your health as well in our pocket.
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Petrol price hike: “no petrol” or “just taxes”
Compare the petrol prices among the countries? You will find it on most of higher side in India. When petrol regulatory body are asked about the reason, they said “Higher taxes”, which makes petrol prices four times the actual price. Four times!! Are they kidding? Unfortunately, No 
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Waste to scarce!!
Courtesy : Google images
I shared an information about origin of petrol, but really was aware of one interesting fact. Crude oil and so petrol is by product of search for Salt. Salt was very important commodity in mid nineteenth century, as there were no refrigerators, and salt was used for food preservation. The salt was mined out from brine wells. Along with salt, some sticky and black substance was found. It was considered as nuisance, a waste and so dumped in river or oceans. Later, people started selling this greasy product for its medicinal use, that is massage treatment for arthritis and joint pains.
In 1854, Canada came up with kerosene from this so called waste grease or crude oil, which could be used for oil lamps. It gave a cheaper alternative of whale oil, used for lighting and also saved species of whale.
This by product of search of the salt, which was considered waste earlier, now got its importance, its real value and give raise to Oil boom in mid 1800. And came along legendary John D Rockefellow, America’s first oil tycoon and the founder of Standard Oil (or ESSO).
Rockefeller (born in 1839) was primarily a refiner, transporter and marketer of oil, rather than a miner of oil. The son of a door to door salesman (who dropped his young son on the ground and then advised him to trust no one) Rockefeller was famously frugal. He disliked anything being thrown out and tried to find a use for everything. (Courtesy: http://www.wotwaste.com/waste-articles/industrial-waste/was-petrol-really-once-a-waste-product )
So, from waste to scarce, the crude oil or say petrol, traveled very fast journey of its growth.