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Cheapest Petrol In and Around the City/Suburbs

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  • 22-07-2014 11:33am
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    Generic Dreadhead
    Registered Users Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭✭


    I thought we could all share our experiences here and maybe all save some money too, who's got a station they use regularly based on price?
    Filling up my 1.6l car now takes about €70 :(


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    #2
    .red.
    Registered Users Posts: 3,334 ✭✭✭.red.


    Check out pumps.ie or their app.


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    #3
    ofcork
    Registered Users Posts: 5,352 ✭✭✭ofcork


    My 1.6 took 75 to fill last week in whites cross at 153.9.


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    Nino Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭Nino Brown


    Most of the time it's a waste of time looking for cheap petrol/diesel. You probably have a 50L tank, so even if you find a place that's 2c per liter cheaper, you'll only save a euro. So unless it's the closest station to you it's probably a false economy anyway. Then you couple that with the fact that most people never bother doing the math, so there's usually longer queues at the cheaper station, which are totally worht skipping for the sake of a few cents.


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    cantdecide
    Registered Users Posts: 11,465 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    Nino Brown wrote: »
    Most of the time it's a waste of time looking for cheap petrol/diesel. You probably have a 50L tank, so even if you find a place that's 2c per liter cheaper, you'll only save a euro. So unless it's the closest station to you it's probably a false economy anyway. Then you couple that with the fact that most people never bother doing the math, so there's usually longer queues at the cheaper station, which are totally worht skipping for the sake of a few cents.

    True and add the fact that if value and economy are the priority hauling a full tank of fuel around is almost like carrying a large child. However the object of the exercise should be to find a reasonably priced place maybe on your commute. The worst thing you could do is give your money to one of those rural stations which are 10c above the average with God knows what lurking in their ancient tanks.

    There's a massive new Amber being built at the start of the Bandon road alongside Wm. O'Brien's and they are almost sure to be at the low end of the pricing scale. At the moment, the Amber in Glounthaune (another freshly built facility) are at about 1.53 for petrol but I don't know about diesel.


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    cantdecide
    Registered Users Posts: 11,465 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    ofcork wrote: »
    My 1.6 took 75 to fill last week in whites cross at 153.9.

    My 1.2 Stilo costs over €90 to fill :eek:


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    bogman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭bogman


    Esso? South City Link Road, Cork, petrol is around 151.9, diesel somewhere around 1.43/l from what I remember when I passed it yesterday, ive seen prices 7-9c/l more expensive in the past week
    Thats 30-35c a gallon dearer


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    soundsham
    Registered Users Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭soundsham


    Id be more interested in getting the cost of a gallon of Heineken under €35


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    leahyl
    Registered Users Posts: 14,244 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    bogman wrote: »
    Esso? South City Link Road, Cork, petrol is around 151.9, diesel somewhere around 1.43/l from what I remember when I passed it yesterday, ive seen prices 7-9c/l more expensive in the past week
    Thats 30-35c a gallon dearer

    That place is known to be one of the cheapest stations in the city - or at least I've always know it to be one anyway!


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    GavRedKing
    Registered Users Posts: 53,262 ✭✭✭✭GavRedKing


    Theres a great gas out in glounthane thats usually very cheap if you're out that direction, think its was around 151/2 for petrol at the weekend.

    Its an automated station though so only takes cards.


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    hoodwinked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭hoodwinked


    bogman wrote: »
    Esso? South City Link Road, Cork, petrol is around 151.9, diesel somewhere around 1.43/l from what I remember when I passed it yesterday, ive seen prices 7-9c/l more expensive in the past week
    Thats 30-35c a gallon dearer

    i love that station, use it all the time, they always tend to be one of the cheapest

    one morning i was in there and the price on the sign said 152.9 (something like that) when i got to the pump it said 151.9, so when i went in to pay i said this to them in case it had gone up and the pump hadn't changed,

    he laughed thanked me and told me the guy was just gone out to lower the sign.

    just thought it was nice that they do actually lower the prices where others would have waited until the end of the day (my husband worked in a petrol station that would leave it until the last possible minute to do decreases but they were shoo'd outside straight away for increases)


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    #12
    leahyl
    Registered Users Posts: 14,244 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    There's a station on the model farm road as well that is meant to be fairly "cheap" in comparison to the rest


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    GavRedKing
    Registered Users Posts: 53,262 ✭✭✭✭GavRedKing


    Just to add to this theres one out by Woodies and Musgrave Park, just passed Turners Cross, right before the Volkswagen Garage that does cheap petrol/diesel.


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    daveohdave
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 483 ✭✭daveohdave


    Amber up in Mayfield is usually pretty keenly priced.

    I used to use Discount Fuels in Hollyhill but they're not so cheap these days.

    I don't agree about not shopping around for the sake of a euro or so. For a start, it's fifty quid or more over the course of a year, and more importantly I think it's important to support companies that make an effort to compete.


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    draiochtanois
    Registered Users Posts: 2,655 ✭✭✭draiochtanois


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    #16
    daveohdave
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 483 ✭✭daveohdave


    What effort exactly?


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    #17
    ktc99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27 ✭ktc99


    Maxol on Boreenmanna Road in Balinlough are the cheapest in the city now I think. 150.9 for petrol and 143.9 for diesel. Get petrol there regularly. Sound lads there.


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    Roger Hassenforder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    leahyl wrote: »
    There's a station on the model farm road as well that is meant to be fairly "cheap" in comparison to the rest

    Lee Garage (Peugeot Dealer, towards Dennehy's cross.
    Cheap all right.
    Your man's a laugh in there though (not)


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    hoodwinked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭hoodwinked


    ktc99 wrote: »
    Maxol on Boreenmanna Road in Balinlough are the cheapest in the city now I think. 150.9 for petrol and 143.9 for diesel. Get petrol there regularly. Sound lads there.

    i paid 149.9 for petrol in esso on the link last week...


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    daveohdave
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 483 ✭✭daveohdave


    It was a cent more than the above yesterday though, at least according to Pumps.ie. Offline today though, can't check when it was last updated.


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    byronbay2
    Registered Users Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭byronbay2


    Roger Hassenforder wrote: »
    Lee Garage (Peugeot Dealer, towards Dennehy's cross.
    Cheap all right.
    Your man's a laugh in there though (not)

    Ha Ha. Yeah, he's a character alright - would have had a spot in our (dearly departed) "Characters of Cork" thread.

    Lee Garage is always good value, as is the 24 hour self-service place in the business park by the Kinsale Road roundabout - across the road from Harvey Norman.

    Funnily enough, I was in Ballincollig at the weekend and found there was great value - yes, I look at the price of diesel in EVERY SINGLE petrol station I pass!! I filled up for 141.9 per litre in the place on the way out of Ballincollig (is it Topaz??) heading west.


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    #22
    -Toppy-
    Registered Users Posts: 555 ✭✭✭-Toppy-


    The maxol on the west side of ballincollig has a 10c off per liter offer next thursday (a special opening offer)

    see maxol.ie/fuelsaving
    (no affiliation - just got the flyer in the door)


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    #23
    ktc99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27 ✭ktc99


    Where is the cheapest at the moment do people think/know?


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    #24
    physioman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,239 ✭✭✭physioman


    ktc99 wrote: »
    Where is the cheapest at the moment do people think/know?

    Iniscarra top garage I'd say. Just look up pumps.ie and you'll find it ;-)


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    #25
    run_Forrest_run
    Registered Users Posts: 6,393 ✭✭✭run_Forrest_run


    Applegreen in Ovens was 1.48 (petrol) last week anyway, and had been that price for quite some time.


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    #26
    delahuntv
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,532 ✭✭✭delahuntv


    you should see price drops of about 5c-6c in the next week to 10 days. Similarly you should see home heat drop by about €50 per 1000 litres.

    Since last week, oil prices have dropped a net 10% after currency changes (previous oil prices reductions were mostly consumed by a stronger dollar).
    Of the approx 1.53 you pay (or 1.43 in case of diesel), about 50c - 52c if the cost of the fuel, about 10c-12c is split between distributor and retailer and the rest is tax.
    Within that 50c is also refining costs and transport costs to/from refinery from oil fields. - I estimate about 5c-7c a litre.

    That give a net raw material cost of each litre of about 45c

    So as oil prices have dropped 10%, this means a 4.5c reduction + the vat on that 4.5c, meaning approx 5.5c reduction due at the pumps in a week - 10 days time.

    If oil was $1 - we'd still be paying about €1.10 at the pumps. Likewise if oil doubled overnight to $170 and dollar stayed as it was, the increase at the pumps would be about 50c


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    mikeym
    Registered Users Posts: 3,984 ✭✭✭mikeym


    Having a Diesel car helps if you do long distances.

    But the only thing is diesel cars cost more to buy.


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    Mumha
    Registered Users Posts: 1,245 ✭✭✭Mumha


    Roger Hassenforder wrote: »
    Lee Garage (Peugeot Dealer, towards Dennehy's cross.
    Cheap all right.
    Your man's a laugh in there though (not)

    He's the reason I stopped going there, serious attitude problem.


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    draiochtanois
    Registered Users Posts: 2,655 ✭✭✭draiochtanois


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    #30
    Mumha
    Registered Users Posts: 1,245 ✭✭✭Mumha


    draiochtanois wrote: »
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    to each their own !


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    mikeecho
    Registered Users Posts: 5,039 ✭✭✭mikeecho


    run_Forrest_run wrote: »
    Applegreen in Ovens was 1.48 (petrol) last week anyway, and had been that price for quite some time.


    as of yesterday, its €1.468 for petrol and
    €1.388 for daysul


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