Fuel prices????

Grimreaper666 · 19-08-2012 7:46pm #1

I thought I heard a few weeks back that fuel prices were coming down, now today I hear they're going back up and could be 1.80 a litre in a month or so. Anyone know why this is happening? It seems the cost of crude oil is gone down.

paddy147 · 19-08-2012 7:49pm

Fuel prices are going up by as much as 10 pence in the UK in next week-2 weeks.

They are blaming the fighting in Syria and also other middle eastern factors aswell.....(Iran)

Berty · 19-08-2012 7:52pm

Yes in July we were told they were dropping it by between 10-12cent but it never happened. Prices are going back up. I got my derv tonight at 154.9. Last time for a long time I'd say.

Grimreaper666 · 19-08-2012 7:52pm

Ffs!! Any excuse now i suppose! It's amazing how it goes up overnight yet takes months to come down if ever.

goz83 · 19-08-2012 8:09pm

they say its the weak euro and conflict is to blame. its bs though

ShadowHearth · 19-08-2012 8:36pm

i heard this time it was Virgin Marries fault. She was not as honest as she should be, so the only way to fix that was making petrol prices higher.

that biitch.... :pac:

Mavv · 19-08-2012 8:41pm

paddy147 wrote: »

They are blaming the fighting in Syria and also other middle eastern factors aswell.....(Iran)

That is always an excuse for bringing up the fuel prices... Middle East... :pac:

I'd like to be in Dubai

Grimreaper666 · 19-08-2012 8:41pm

Shur any excuse will do now. The Irish have to put up with some ****e from the shower that some of us voted in to run the place. As a friend of mine says "We'd have had a revolution here years ago if we could get someone else to do it!" I think he's right...........

MuppetCheck · 19-08-2012 9:36pm

Taxes on fuel haven't changed. I fail to see how the government are to blame for short term price variations.

Grimreaper666 · 19-08-2012 10:13pm

MuppetCheck wrote: »

Taxes on fuel haven't changed. I fail to see how the government are to blame for short term price variations.

But paying nearly three quarters of a gallon of fuel in taxes is ok in your book is it?

Dartz · 19-08-2012 10:19pm

Exactly.

High fuel prices are in the government's interests because it boosts tax take. And bollox to everyone else because it's a tax people have to pay.

IrishZeus · 19-08-2012 10:19pm

How much in money terms do we pay in tax per litre? €1.xx?

Grimreaper666 · 19-08-2012 10:24pm

It's around 70% iirc, absolute robbery anyway considering it will drive up the cost of everything else.

one2one · 19-08-2012 11:00pm

171.9 for Unleaded on the N81 at The Spawell this evening, think I'll be taking the push bike to work from now on!

Jesus. · 26-12-2013 12:00am

I'm forever complaining about the cost of fuel so perhaps its time to put things into a bit of context. Considering the OP was fearful of petrol costing 1.80 around September 2012, we're not doing too bad with prices knocking around the 1.50 mark - give or take a few cents - at the end of 2013.

Now all we need is for the Government to reform our ridiculous Motor tax system and we might become a half decent Country in which to be a Motor-head again!