Petrol prices dropping?

Fighting Irish

In Carlow for a while now most garages charged €1.20 per litre of petrol and the cheapest garage around charged €1.18 per litre, but now today they've all dropped, the cheapest one i seen was €1.14 :eek: fawking noice, anyone know why the prices dropped?

bennyx_o

Noticed this too in and around Dublin. A few days after people saying it would rise to €1.30 and it drops. I'm not complaining though, It's only a matter of time before it goes up again.

Fighting Irish

bennyx_o wrote:

Noticed this too in and around Dublin. A few days after people saying it would rise to €1.30 and it drops. I'm not complaining though, It's only a matter of time before it goes up again.

so its time to fill up

Black Swan

Run out and fill up. But don't hold your breath. Oil corporation profits are tied to scarcity (real or contrived). USA, China, and India are driving long term pricing based upon increasing demand. Alternative energy sources are lagging far behind.

Ruu_Old

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

Run out and fill up. But don't hold your breath. Oil corporation profits are tied to scarcity (real or contrived). USA, China, and India are driving long term pricing based upon increasing demand. Alternative energy sources are lagging far behind.

How much in CA, about $3 something a gallon?

Black Swan

Ruu wrote:

How much in CA, about $3 something a gallon?

At the station about a mile away it was $3.22 USD today (87 octane).

TheBazman

Crude oil prices have fallen from a peak of around 77 usd in late July to around 71 usd now. This is why petrol prices have come down (with a lag of course) I think this will be temporary and we will see oil prices back above 77 usd soon. Enjoy it while it lasts

Do-more

Heard a guy on the radio last week explaining that current oil prices are being driven up by speculators, he had all sorts of figures to support this, can't remember for sure, but I think he said that it is currently adding $15 to a barrel and that this will not be sustained into the future, cause for hope?

lomb

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

At the station about a mile away it was $3.22 USD today (87 octane).

thats per american gallon though, 3.5 liters i think.

mikedragon32

lomb wrote:

thats per american gallon though, 3.5 liters i think.

So it's still less than $1 per litre, or, in Euro, about 86c. Those poor Californians.

zilog_jones

1 US Gallon = 3.785 litres
Therefore, US$3.22 a US gallon = €0.6595 per litre. Feck sake, we're paying about twice as much!

Damn yanks and your wrong measures - ye don't just use gallons, you use wrong gallons! Wrong octane measurements too - 87 = about 91-95 octane here (most garages sell 95 in Ireland).

KTRIC

87 Octane !!!

I put that on my Crunchy Nut Cornflakes this morning


They can keep it, I prefer to pay that bit more for the real deal.

junii

I live in Mayo and I travel to Galway city for work every day. Last week petrol was 123.9 in galway and 118.9 back in my hometown.

Every station on the way to Galway from Mayo is more expensive than the last!

I want to change over to diesel big time, I saw it advertised for 112.9 yesterday. Maybe its cheaper again now given this new development.

5500

Cheapest ive heard of in dublin is the foxhunter at 1.15,can anyone confirm that?

Oh i wonder what the statoil on the quays out of town is at the minute,probably 1.32 at the lower rate!

junii

eireal wrote:

Cheapest ive heard of in dublin is the foxhunter at 1.15,can anyone confirm that?

Oh i wonder what the statoil on the quays out of town is at the minute,probably 1.32 at the lower rate!

1.15 :eek: Was that last week or today?

testicle

Statoil dropped their wholesale price by 4.3 cents last Wednesday. Seems to be kicking in at the pumps now. Their fuelcard (motorcard.ie) is currently selling unleaded at 113.2.

bazz26

I was on holiday in Brussels and Amsterdam last week and the price of unleaded was between €1.40 and €1.50 a litre. Diesel was around €1.20 a litre as far as I remember. 20c per litre saving to switch to an oil burner over there.

gyppo

bazz26 wrote:

I was on holiday in Brussels and Amsterdam last week and the price of unleaded was between €1.40 and €1.50 a litre. Diesel was around €1.20 a litre as far as I remember. 20c per litre saving to switch to an oil burner over there.

I found much the same scenario in Italy (Rome) last week. Unleaded about 1.44 per litre, diesel was about 14c per litre cheaper.

5500

junii wrote:

1.15 :eek: Was that last week or today?

Apparently it was on saturday night

zilog_jones

gyppo wrote:

I found much the same scenario in Italy (Rome) last week. Unleaded about 1.44 per litre, diesel was about 14c per litre cheaper.

Yeah, surprisingly petrol is one of the few reasonably priced things (possibly the only?) in Ireland compared to the rest of Europe.

prospect

zilog_jones wrote:

Yeah, surprisingly petrol is one of the few reasonably priced things (possibly the only?) in Ireland compared to the rest of Europe.

Yes,
It is just everything else thats a rip-off.....

testicle

You will find, for the most part, that in such places, road tax is added on via petrol prices.

gyppo

I agree fuel prices are more expensive in Continental Europe than here. HOWEVER, over there you have public transport systems that work, and there is an alternative to running a car.
Here, unless you live on the Dart or Luas, forget about it.
If you live outside the Pale you have to have a car - or walk.

mike65

Fuel prices in Waterford City tend to be lowish and steady too - Tesco have been in and around 116-118 for a few months.

Amercians love cheap low octane fuel - when I had the Merc there were no end of threads on message boards asking why is my car running rough - they were using 83 (US) in a car designed for 95 RON, minimum.

Mike.

ciarsd

115.9c for petrol in quite a few stations outside dublin city centre yesterday evening.

Statoil on the south quays were looking for €1.35 for regular 95 octane petrol

Our man in Havana

Statoil are always dear for pump prices. :mad:

Statoil Abbeyleix are currently charging 121.9 down from 125.9 earlier. The motor card gives me 8c discount. I would never pay cash in a statoil tbh. I laugh at the mugs that know no better and do.

Sizzler

Statoil dropped their fuelcard price by almost 10 cents last week
But sadly it doesnt seem to have kicked in for daysel

testicle

Sizzler wrote:

Statoil dropped their fuelcard price by almost 10 cents last week
But sadly it doesnt seem to have kicked in for daysel

No they didn't - 5.3 cents...

junii

As of today the cheapest ive seen in Mayo and Galway has been 118.9. The only price I see thats changed is the one near the Mariott hotel... down from 123.9 to 120.9!

andrea2007

Hi

AXA Insurance have launched a fuel card with Statoil that gives you a discounted fixed rate on petrol. At the moment the fuel card rate is 113.2c!

You can apply online at axaplus.ie

Fighting Irish

acassells wrote:

Hi

AXA Insurance have launched a fuel card with Statoil that gives you a discounted fixed rate on petrol. At the moment the fuel card rate is 113.2c!

You can apply online at axaplus.ie

do you pay upfront?

commited

Local garage was 116.9 on friday and everywhere else was still 121+ - thought it was a mistake, but filling up yesterday, it clearly wasnt!

Spit62500

acassells wrote:

Hi

AXA Insurance have launched a fuel card with Statoil that gives you a discounted fixed rate on petrol. At the moment the fuel card rate is 113.2c!

You can apply online at axaplus.ie

Is this a credit card? It looks like one - or at least a charge card. If so, are you liable for the 40 euro govt duty?

testicle

The AXA card is the same card provided by motorcard.ie except it is branded by AXA, and only for AXA policy holders.

No you are not liable for €40 duty.

testicle

I prophesy the price of these cards will be 110.1 for unleaded, 109.9 for diesel tomorrow! Of course I could be wrong!

(and no I don't work for Statoil, or anyone connected with that card)

Seth Brundle

I passed the Statoil on Dublins Quays the other day.
Despite the recent price drops all over the place, they are advertising unleaded at >135c/L

The_Magoo

Well, I just filled my tank at Tescos for 113.9 a litre, cost €56 to fill the tank. The same last week cost €59 = grand saving of €3!

IrishRover

KTRIC wrote:

87 Octane !!!

I put that on my Crunchy Nut Cornflakes this morning


They can keep it, I prefer to pay that bit more for the real deal.

He's talking about the MON octane rating though whereas we use RON. 87 MON is probably the same as our 95 RON. http://www.btinternet.com/~madmole/Reference/RONMONPON.html

mike65

113.9 at Tesco Waterford.

Mike.

voxpop

Has anyone signed up for the Benchmark fuel card - http://www.motorcard.ie/ - Seems a bit too good to be true.
The Statoil beside me is not too bad at 115.90 last Friday, so an extra few pence off that price wouldnt be bad.

Our man in Havana

The card does what it says it does on the tin. I find that statoils normal prices to be outrageous up to 10 cent above others.

mike65

So they are knocking a few cents off a high price. Whoopie!

Mike.

testicle

Motorcard is currently 110.1, find somewhere to beat that!

Dilbert75

Tesco in New Ross opened recently at 116.9 with 5c off per litre for >€50 grocery spend. Statoil matched it, then went to 113.9, with 5c off for >€25 groceries. Then Tesco matched Statoil. Then Statoil went to 110.9. Now Tesco have followed Statoil to 110.9.

Four weeks ago the same Statoil were charging 122.9. Is this the effect of competition or just fluctuations that would have happened anyway?

Seth Brundle

Out of curiosity, have any petrol stations near established Tesco forecourts closed down?

Dilbert75

Not round here - yet - though some closed in the last two or three years, no connection to Tesco though. We just see dozens, and I mean dozens, of UK cars filling up on their way back to the ferry - they fill Jerrycans with petrol too. Cars must be mobile powder kegs with that much fuel.

mike65

Here in Waterford Esso closed the Ardkeen station which is about half a Km away, but I belive it was one of a bunch Esso had earmarked for closure anyway.

Mike.

Black Sky

voxpop wrote:

Has anyone signed up for the Benchmark fuel card - http://www.motorcard.ie/ - Seems a bit too good to be true.
The Statoil beside me is not too bad at 115.90 last Friday, so an extra few pence off that price wouldnt be bad.

I signed up a month ago. No hidden strings, does exactly waht it says.
Last week was 113.?, and driving around West Kerry there were alot of 125c al garages. Generally Statoil me be more expensive, but I keep a printoff of the garages that take the card in the glove compartent. Very handy when venturing beyond the Pale.

No charges if you don't use, so can't loose, just another PIN to remember though...

JHMEG

mike65, I got petrol at the station beside the Hypermarket (ie "the L&N", sorry, former WRTC student, dunno what it's called now) on Sunday afternoon for 112.9.

In Maynooth, Tesco are the cheapest 95% of the time, but it always pays to check out the other two nearby, as I reckon Tesco knows most people won't bother checking and will take advantage of that from time to time.

Tesco both here and the UK vary from station to station as I witnessed recently. 116.9 in New Ross, 118.9 in Maynooth on the same day. Half the Tescos I saw in the UK earlier in the day were 97.9 or 99.9 (driving from Bristol to Fishguard, ferry to Rosslare, drive to Leixlip).

To top it all off, it's Statoil that supply petrol to Tesco stations.

Our man in Havana

Black Sky wrote:

No charges if you don't use, so can't loose, just another PIN to remember though...

I lost the PIN in the first week. I have never been asked to enter it anywhere, just sign the slip.
I think the PIN is for just those after hours diesel places that the trucks fill up at.

mike65

JHMEG wrote:

mike65, I got petrol at the station beside the Hypermarket (ie "the L&N", sorry, former WRTC student, dunno what it's called now) on Sunday afternoon for 112.9.

Thats a Texaco. Must remember them!

Mike.