Petrol, unleaded, per litre priced in Bitcoin: 2015 to 2024
Priced in fiat
Priced in sats
Petrol, unleaded, per litre (per litre) cost £1.11 in 2015 and £1.41 in 2024, a change of +27% in pounds across 9 years. The figures are annual averages from ONS, RPI: Ave price - Ultra low sulphur/Unleaded petrol, per litre (series CZMK). The fiat peak in this series came in 2022 at £1.65.
Priced in sats, the same item went from 613,260 sats to 2,696 sats, a change of −99.6%. The conversion uses the yearly average BTC price for each matching year, never a rate from a different era. The least flattering single step for the sats series was 2021 to 2022, when this item moved +98% in sats terms. Short windows can and do run against the holder; the direction across the full series is what the chart shows.
Petrol carries every geopolitical shock straight to the forecourt. The 2022 spike shows in both currencies; only one of them gave it back.
Energy prices carry every shock in the world straight into household budgets. The comparison on the main page shows the same shocks against a unit nobody can print.
| Year | Pounds | Sats |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | £1.11 | 613,260 |
| 2016 | £1.09 | 247,166 |
| 2017 | £1.18 | 41,273 |
| 2018 | £1.25 | 23,621 |
| 2019 | £1.25 | 21,248 |
| 2020 | £1.14 | 12,511 |
| 2021 | £1.31 | 3,770 |
| 2022 | £1.65 | 7,461 |
| 2023 | £1.48 | 6,264 |
| 2024 | £1.41 | 2,696 |
Source: ONS, RPI: Ave price - Ultra low sulphur/Unleaded petrol, per litre (CZMK). Sats = fiat price ÷ BTC price in that currency × 100,000,000, using yearly average BTC rates. Data vintage 2026-07-04. Full method on the main page.