Will Petrol be coming down here in Ireland?

according to http://pumps.ie/ its already down at 120.9 at various places across the country

methinks you need to find the use of the internet and compare prices and go somewhere cheaper for your fuel

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

Just seen today Petrol has fallen in the UK to just under a £1 a Litre at some garages - will it fall down to a lower price (to around €1.28 a litre) any time soon here?

http://news.sky.com/story/1406405/petrol-at-1-a-litre-but-not-at-supermarkets

Duty is applied differently here in Ireland than in the UK. Hence Diesel is cheaper here than petrol, and vice versa in the UK.

None the less petrol is already cheaper here. Current exchange rate according to bank of ireland
€ to £ = 0.758

Lowest priced petrol per litre on pumps.ie
=Esso, N25, Tarrabridge
or TopSexton Street, Abbeyside
both at 120.9c
120.9 * 0.758= 91.64c.
That's a whole 8 cents cheaper
In fact once it is less than 131.5 per litre it will be cheaper than the UK price.

Esso Dungarvan is 120.9 for petrol, cheapest I've seen.

MuppetCheck wrote: »

Esso Dungarvan is 120.9 for petrol, cheapest I've seen.

Actually noticed that service stations around Waterford appear to be ahead of the loop when it comes to dropping their prices. Was in Trim, Co Meath last tuesday and noticed petrol at 139.9, that evening got petrol in Ferrybank at 124.9.

It's 123.9 in Ratoath (Fairyhouse Road) in two garages (Spar / Maxol) and Brady's (Esso). Oh and the Gala on the Ratoath Road, same price.

Paid 124.8 today in Applegreen Crumlin, probably one of the cheaper places in Dublin

I remember paying around the 120 about 7-8 years ago. Pretty sure it hasn't been this close to 120 in many years

I saw diesel at 113.9 lastnight. I'd be afraid there's something wrong with it at that price :pac:

Special Circumstances wrote: »

uh-oh maths fail in my first post!

€1/L
VAT = ~19c
Pretax Petrol = ~81c
Duty etc = ~60c
Pre tax, pre duty Petrol = 21c/L

Basically the government are ripping us off more than any sheikh. Due to duties etc, the pretax pre duty price of petrol would have to halve to bring it to €1 for us at the pump, and almost halve again to go to €0.90. (Assuming no more maths fails!)

€1.23/L
VAT 23c
Pretax Petrol = €1
duty etc ~60c
Pretax pre duty petrol = 40c

€0.90/L
VAT~17c
Pretax Petrol ~ 73c
duty etc ~60c
Pretax pre duty petrol ~ 13c

I still find quotes like this interesting. Let's say the government halved the the tax on petrol, where would they find this shortfall in tax or where would they make cuts to save the money they no longer took in.
Think of it as Ireland PLC, we're all part of it.

Black_Knight wrote: »

Im out doing some work in Texas atm. "Gas" is $1.76 a gallon here.
About 39cent a liter. Madness

Not quite US gallon is approx 3.8 liters not 4.5l liters.
Because their pints is 473ml instead of 568ml

https://www.google.ie/?gws_rd=ssl#q=US+gallon

Making it about 46.5c a litre. Still a hell of a lot cheaper.

Special Circumstances wrote: »

...and this invalidates the post you quoted how???

Because I'd see the government as taking our money to spend and share out among us. So while more is been taken off us, more is than there to be shared out among us.
So I suppose I would take calling it as being ripped off as not really true. We could say as motorist we'd prefer if we hadn't quite so much taken off us. But it's not like the money is taken and we see no benefit from it.

Cleveland Hot Pocket wrote: »

That's a very simplistic viewpoint to have, and one which is reactive as opposed to proactive.

There are less jobs because the social welfare "pay packet" for long term dolers is way too high compared with the minimum wage.
Make it less attractive to sit on the dole and people will find work.

It's also simplistic to laugh at my new rich comment with regards to SW payments. There's not just the basic payment, there's lone parent's allowance, there's medical cards, fuel allowance, travel passes etc etc.
Meaning that for a lot of lifers the 188 goes on pubs, paddy power and smokes.

Regarding child benefit, I am of the view that it should be taxable only. Meaning that it is not given to those that don't need it.

The two main expenses in the SW budget are JSA/JSB and pensions. Pensions are too high in my opinion thanks to Bertie's buying of the grey vote and no subsequent political leaders having the cajones to do anything about it. At least most of the pensioners worked and deserve a pension in their old age. What do long term JSA recipients offer the country? Nothing.

Are you Joe Higgins in disguise?

Is this motors related?

But if we cut the dole to 100 euro in the morning, while we'd have more people looking for jobs we wouldn't have more jobs out there, that is all I am saying. I do know some people who retired to go on the dole, I totally disagree with this. It's there as a support if you can't find a job or are retraining to find a job.
I suppose it depends what you call rich, I'm not laughing, just saying I'd not class people on the dole as rich, they've not probably sending kids to private school not buying new cars. Should they be let spend some of it in the pub?
Would you like to be on the dole and told where you can and can't spend your money.
I suppose too, turkey's don't vote for Christmas, no one things they themselves should make more of a contribution, we all point to someone else.
I was in a class before where the lecturer was saying how a company manger said he couldn't understand why the staff wouldn't take a 20% cut in salaries to keep the company a float. But the company owner didn't understand that for some they'd not be able to survive on 20% less so there was no point agreeing to it.
It's easy to say dole is too high with all the add ons so people are not motivated to get off it and find a job.
But look at actual cases, a friend was on the dole, he was not in the pub, was finding it hard to make ends meet as it was, he was offered a job that by the time he added in petrol he would be 20 euro a week worse off, he was already finding it hard to pay his was, how can he go back to work for that job? He can't use 20% less gas and electricity, eat 20% less, use 20% less petrol.
There was a very interesting piece on tv before, they simply asked who should pay more tax, everyone agreed the rich should pay more, but when they asked people from different salary brackets who were the rich, even those on 150,000 sterling didn't consider themselves rich.
What do long term JSA recipients offer the country? Is this not going down the lines of if you don't offer anything you are not welcome here? My mother has not worked in 25 years, she was a full time mother, we're all grown and moved on, she paid very little tax but will get a pension, she is not on the dole but is also offering nothing, should we ask her to leave?

I just think there is an ill-informed view of the dole, the vast majority would love to have a job and not feel ****ty collecting it and signing on every week. You'll always have some lazy people, some though are just not skilled enough to get what is going.
I spoke to a bloke once who was hoping to be a senator one day in the usa, his kids were given 50k a year education, he thought why can't people just get a job, I tried to say it is a different world for those on the bottom then those like his kids at the top, they can't use connections or are not educated enough.
I suppose to put it simply, if we stopped TD's taking no more then their salary and we kicked off the dole anyone who'd been on it more than a year, it would not change in my opinion the state of our countries finances that much.
It would not mean we could lower the rate of tax instantly.
If we'd no people on the dole we'd be screwed a bit too, who'd take up the new jobs we're creating.