fuel prices

philstar

Im down here in co clare.

At my local station (don't worry mods i won't name them) the price of petrol has gone from €1.14 to €1.17 to €1.20 in just five days!!

and its a similar story in nearby stations, i know the price of the barrell has gone up recently but why do some stations up the price instantly > before they even get a delivery, im sick of being ripped off like this:mad:

so out of interest whats the price down your way??

Cookie_Monster

philstar wrote: »

but why do some stations up the price instantly > before they even get a delivery, im sick of being ripped off like this:mad:

Cartel, so they can get away with it.

Heroditas

philstar wrote: »

so out of interest whats the price down your way??

€1.15 in the Petrogas in Palmerstown.

Eoin

philstar wrote: »

so out of interest whats the price down your way??

www.pumps.ie is probably the best place to check that out - and it was set up by a boardsie as well, I believe.

Bee

philstar wrote: »

Im down here in co clare.

At my local station (don't worry mods i won't name them) the price of petrol has gone from €1.14 to €1.17 to €1.20 in just five days!!

and its a similar story in nearby stations, i know the price of the barrell has gone up recently but why do some stations up the price instantly > before they even get a delivery, im sick of being ripped off like this:mad:

so out of interest whats the price down your way??

Jeez!

It's not just the rip-off price of petrol/diesel look at the rip-off price of elecricity/gas!

The government is happy for the rip-off charges to bring in much needed tax revenue due to the bags of ot that they have made of the economy.

But the real bad ass thing is the ideological froot-loop thinking of the Minister of the environment being a greeen party member of fianna failure who wants you to pay rip off petro/diesel prices because of his hatred of fossil fuels, remember this idiot is saying we must bring in useless wind power (less than 20% efficient) and has added a tax on esb charges to subsidise this useless form of energy production

mickdw

Why after there was 8c additional tax added to diesel, has petrol still stayed the same amount dearer than diesel?

smash

It's around 120 where I live, rarely goes below 118.

At the moment it's $67.50 a barrel and someone correct me if I'm wrong but when petrol was below €1 a litre months ago, oil was around the same price a barrel wasn't it?

They up the prices because they can!

Cionád

mickdw wrote: »

Why after there was 8c additional tax added to diesel, has petrol still stayed the same amount dearer than diesel?

5c was put on diesel in April, 8c was put on petrol in the budget before that.

Heroditas

Bee wrote: »

But the real bad ass thing is the ideological froot-loop thinking of the Minister of the environment being a greeen party member of fianna failure who wants you to pay rip off petro/diesel prices because of his hatred of fossil fuels, remember this idiot is saying we must bring in useless wind power (less than 20% efficient) and has added a tax on esb charges to subsidise this useless form of energy production

Sorry but you're extremely way off the mark there.

Eoin

There's a politics forum here as well by the way.

fryup

is statoil (or whatever they're called) on the quays still charging way over the odds??

Cionád

fryup wrote: »

is statoil (or whatever they're called) on the quays still charging way over the odds??

No thats been cheap for a good while now.

doolox

Last time I checked it was 2=3 weeks ago and it was 1.19 or so.

fryup

€1.22 in athlone

Lord Derpington

Bee wrote: »

But the real bad ass thing is the ideological froot-loop thinking of the Minister of the environment being a greeen party member of fianna failure who wants you to pay rip off petro/diesel prices because of his hatred of fossil fuels, remember this idiot is saying we must bring in useless wind power (less than 20% efficient) and has added a tax on esb charges to subsidise this useless form of energy production

Please dont spout about things you cleary dont know about, for a start how can wind power be less than 20% efficent?
What exactly is the waste product?