The price of petrol has crossed the Rs 100 mark in several parts of India while diesel is hovering around Rs 90. Mumbai saw an all-time high petrol price of Rs 102.82 a litre on June 16. Among other metros, prices of petrol in Delhi were at Rs 96.66 a litre, in Chennai at Rs 97.91 a litre and in Kolkata at around Rs 96.58 a litre. It took almost 15 years for petrol to go from Rs 50 to past Rs 100 in Mumbai on May 29. Petrol cost Rs 53.5 a litre on June 5, 2006. The price of this fuel had crossed Rs 50 in Chennai and Kolkata too on the same day; however, it was only in June 2008 that petrol price in Delhi touched Rs 50.