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Any hike on petrol/diesel/fags and drink?

  • 07-12-2010 5:17pm
    #1
    Skuxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭


    As the title says, did they add anything to petrol or diesel and fags and drink??


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  • #2
    Bonavox
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    Diesel up 2c per litre. Petrol up 4c per litre. No change to smokes and alcohol.


  • #3
    thehamo
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    alan1990 wrote: »
    As the title says, did they add anything to petrol or diesel and fags and drink??

    Ah the aul staples. 4c on petrol 2c on diesel and none on drink or smokes


  • #4
    Skuxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭Skuxx


    Bonavox wrote: »
    Diesel up 2c per litre. Petrol up 4c per litre. No change to smokes and alcohol.

    Could have been alot worse I suppose!!


  • #5
    Patser
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    alan1990 wrote: »
    Could have been alot worse I suppose!!

    That's another 4c this year, plus the 4c last year in Carbon Tax, please the 8c the year before - and VAT has to be added to all that. So in 2 years petrol is up about 20c/litre.


  • #6
    Skuxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭Skuxx


    Patser wrote: »
    That's another 4c this year, plus the 4c last year in Carbon Tax, please the 8c the year before - and VAT has to be added to all that. So in 2 years petrol is up about 20c/litre.

    yeah of course 20c is alot if it was in one go but 2c on diesel this year isn't alot really! I'll be honest I was expecting about 8c!


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  • #7
    redsteveireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,074 ✭✭✭redsteveireland


    Dirty rotten petrol stations :mad:have already put up the price, infact they went up before it was announced.


  • #8
    [Deleted User]
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    redsteveireland wrote: »
    Dirty rotten petrol stations :mad:have already put up the price, infact they went up before it was announced.

    From midnight tonight...


  • #9
    Ardennes1944
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    redsteveireland wrote: »
    Dirty rotten petrol stations :mad:have already put up the price, infact they went up before it was announced.

    it said in the paper that its the fuel shortage in england atm thats driving up our prices not the budget. it'l go up even more tonight


  • #10
    _michelle_
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    rarnes1 wrote: »
    From midnight tonight...

    Well Tesco on Donore Road in Drogheda already went up!:mad:


  • #11
    neris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,084 ✭✭✭✭neris


    feckin tree huggers at it again. wiped out at the next election.

    they werent going to hit the cigs becoz of the amount of smuggling/blackmarket cigs going around. they would have been better off reducing vat on them just wouldnt be very p.c for the government to reduce vat on cigs


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  • #12
    smokin ace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 855 ✭✭✭smokin ace


    i can see one of the local petrol stations in my area from my front window and it has already put up the price it has nothing to do with the fuel shortage and it did not get a delivery of fuel today either
    the price for petrol was 129.9 at quarter to 4 and by half 4 it went up to 135.9
    robbing cnut


  • #13
    Max Power1
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    was there any increase in motor tax?


  • #14
    alo1587
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    Max Power1 wrote: »
    was there any increase in motor tax?


    No increase in motor tax.:)


  • #15
    phasers
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    €1.40 a litre for bleedin petrol, ffs.

    Robbing bastards


  • #16
    Peadar_85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 172 ✭✭Peadar_85


    It's a joke that they're increasing their prices from tonight let alone increasing them earlier in the day. Filling stations have paid pre-budget prices for their fuel so they should not be passing on increases to customers until their next delivery. Department of Consumer Affairs anybody??

    Slightly off topic but I notice Tesco have been mentioned here - anyone else notice how uncompetitive they have become on price in recent times? There was a time when they were always a few cent cheaper than the majority of garages


  • #17
    mikew1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70 ✭✭mikew1985


    I'm really pissed off that they've put yet another hike on the price of petrol, and 4c no less?
    No change to booze and fags though? I really can't see the logic in that.

    I'm sorry but the petrol prices are way too high already, this really is a joke and even more so in light of them leaving smokes and alcohol untouched. At least people have a choice as to whether or not they want to drink or smoke, let them pay for it. A lot of people have no choice but to drive their cars whether on long commutes or rural areas.


  • #18
    dammitjanet
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    Maybe I'm wrong, and I appriciate that I'm saying this as a non smoker- but wouldn't it be a good idea to put up the price of smokes? Could encourage more people to quit? What would be the effect on the economy?
    I understand that raising the price of drink can really have a negative effect on pubs etc and that effects bussiness's in Ireland.


  • #19
    mikew1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70 ✭✭mikew1985


    dammitjanet wrote: »
    Maybe I'm wrong, and I appriciate that I'm saying this as a non smoker- but wouldn't it be a good idea to put up the price of smokes? Could encourage more people to quit? What would be the effect on the economy?
    I understand that raising the price of drink can really have a negative effect on pubs etc and that effects bussiness's in Ireland.

    It shouldn't really be considered a valid reason for not increasing the price of booze imo, If anything increasing the price of petrol and diesel will have an even bigger impact on the wider business community as well as the export industry (our supposed saviour).


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