Conor Faughnan

Sizzler

Speaks more shoite yet again :mad:

http://www.rte.ie/business/2007/0117/petrol.html?rss

He says petrol prices are unlikely to fall much further than last months average but yet most garages (around Dublin anyway) seem to be offering petrol and diesel for well under the euro mark My local Texaco who wouldnt be the cheapest by any means has petrol at 98.9 and Diesel at 97.9 !

Good man Conor! This sort of consumer inertia is why prices are the way they are in this country, this clown has just given the fuel companies an excuse to lash on a few more cents again when the mood takes them....just because this 'expert' was asked for an opinion.

I remember this guy when he used to read out the traffic on 2fm :eek:

mike65

Faughnan ain't an economist is he? Nope! Prices are been ticking down a few % in the last 3-4 weeks and if the US winter stays milder than average then we might see furthur falls. Would'nt expect anything lower than about 95 cent average though (assuming nothing else hits fan in meantime).

Mike.

Sizzler

mike65 wrote:

Faughnan ain't an economist is he? Nope!

Never a truer word spoken ! He should keep his trap shut on stuff he doesn't understand

RobAMerc

This guy makes me sick.

He should be jumping up and down in the media highlighting the plight of the irish motorist, not pointing out his opinion on stuff nobody asked him to.

He always seems to side with big business or the government.

Ireland needs a proper motorists association that has some clout with the govt.
like the vitners.

Maybe : 'United Motorists Front of Eire' or some such.

tc20

RobAMerc wrote:

Maybe : 'United Motorists Front of Eire' or some such.

Tossers. Its the Motorists United Front of Eire you should be following, bignose

Guy:Incognito

RobAMerc wrote:

This guy makes me sick.

He should be jumping up and down in the media highlighting the plight of the irish motorist, not pointing out his opinion on stuff nobody asked him to.

He always seems to side with big business or the government.

Ireland needs a proper motorists association that has some clout with the govt.
like the vitners.

Maybe : 'United Motorists Front of Eire' or some such.

What do you want him to say? "Irish motorists are by far on the lower end of the petrol price scale but to hell with that, we want it cheaper"?

ballooba

I was thinking about this last week. Lately all of the petrol stations have settled around the 99 cent mark. They say they are making a loss at this but that they take the hit so that they make the money back elsewhere.

What happens when they start to raise the price en masse?
99c -> 1.10c -> 1.20c -> 1.40c -> 1.80c -> 2.20c

Mr Magnolia

I tend to agree with the OP TBH. He 'forecasted' the way fuel prices would go over a previous month when prices were rising gradually, and BANG, the following day the garages all put their prices up to his 'forecast'.

Tis not all his fault though.

Robbo

tc20 wrote:

Tossers. Its the Motorists United Front of Eire you should be following, bignose

Isn't it the Motorists United Front of Free Ireland? Or MUFFi...

I am positive there's a Batman style red phone in Faughnan's office which rings whenever a soundbite is needed on something related to motoring.

Sizzler

Robbo wrote:

Isn't it the Motorists United Front of Free Ireland? Or MUFFi...

I am positive there's a Batman style red phone in Faughnan's office which rings whenever a soundbite is needed on something related to motoring.

LOL and he is 'Chief O'Hara'

Its a pity the likes if today fm call on this guy as their resident expert for all matters relating to cars, road quality, tolls to fuel prices, jesus lads !
I'd actually respect the average joe on the street more than this lad.
Maybe the media pay his wages and the AA is just a franchise for him

G Luxel

Its all to do with PR and the high profile he has in the AA. He is definitely no eddie hobbs.:eek:

Seth Brundle

Conor Faughnan is the PR spokesman for a private company.
His job is presumably to voice the AAs opinion on certain motoring related issues not necessarily to stand up for motorists and fight their corner.
However, he does seem to be the only person in media circles that has a pro-motorist voice. Realistically, what would things be like if he wasn't there?

Sizzler

kbannon wrote:

Conor Faughnan is the PR spokesman for a private company.
His job is presumably to voice the AAs opinion on certain motoring related issues not necessarily to stand up for motorists and fight their corner.
However, he does seem to be the only person in media circles that has a pro-motorist voice. Realistically, what would things be like if he wasn't there?

Wouldnt be any worse Give someone else a chance, this guy is a waffler.

Sizzler

OIL prices briefly fell below $50 per barrel yesterday for the first time since May 25, 2005, after the U.S. government reported larger-than-expected jumps in crude oil and gasoline inventories.

Oil has dropped 17pc since the end of 2006 amid weeks of mild winter weather in the U.S. Northeast, a key consumer of heating fuels, and growing energy stockpiles.

"There's no doubt that this is significant," said Phil Flynn of Alaron Trading Corp.

"If you're a bull, the only thing you can hold your hat on is they didn't close below $50."

Quick someone call Conor and ask him what this means for the Irish motorist and why his prediction of the other day now looks like horsesh1t

MAYPOP

RobAMerc wrote:

He should be jumping up and down in the media highlighting the plight of the irish motorist, not pointing out his opinion on stuff nobody asked him to.

oh but then he might have to explain why his own "organisation" isn't the most consumer-friendly bunch of folks when it comes to the insurance side of things, notice how he never rocks the boat about that?

Alun

MAYPOP wrote:

oh but then he might have to explain why his own "organisation" isn't the most consumer-friendly bunch of folks when it comes to the insurance side of things, notice how he never rocks the boat about that?

Care to elucidate?

LOTTOWINNER

tc20 wrote:

Tossers. Its the Motorists United Front of Eire you should be following, bignose

I think the "life of brian" humour has been lost on everyone! PITY!

MAYPOP

Alun wrote:

Care to elucidate?

Not sure what their policy is at the moment as they do not quote online, but for many years they would only insure over-28's, which isn't very consumer-friendly IMO, and seems to me to be hypocritical when they have a spokesman frequently condemning petrol prices, VRT, tax, etc.

Alun

MAYPOP wrote:

Not sure what their policy is at the moment as they do not quote online, but for many years they would only insure over-28's, which isn't very consumer-friendly IMO, and seems to me to be hypocritical when they have a spokesman frequently condemning petrol prices, VRT, tax, etc.

Well, the AA (in Ireland in any case) is only a broker, not an insurance company themselves, so they're bound by the policy restrictions of the insurance companies that they happen to deal with.

MAYPOP

Alun wrote:

Well, the AA (in Ireland in any case) is only a broker, not an insurance company themselves, so they're bound by the policy restrictions of the insurance companies that they happen to deal with.

I don't really care if they are brokers, they refused to quote people because of their age.

Alun

MAYPOP wrote:

I don't really care if they are brokers, they refused to quote people because of their age.

Well, if the insurance companies they broker for won't accept people under 28, for whatever reason, they haven't really got any choice have they?

maidhc

Alun wrote:

Well, if the insurance companies they broker for won't accept people under 28, for whatever reason, they haven't really got any choice have they?

I was in the AA office during the week about insurance. I'm 24, and got a quote, albeit a very uncompetitive one. The guy explained that the insurers give them special rates on over 28s, and that is their target market.

A different Broker gave me a quote that is half the AA one, despite the actual insurers being the same. Horses for courses, not something worth getting worried about.