Fury as Dubai Petrol reaches 22C Lt

gbee

http://gulfnews.com/business/oil-gas/qatar-raises-prices-of-petrol-diesel-1.751100

That's 22 Cent in Euro per litre. And that's after a 25% rise.

Mr Benevolent

The article is about Qatar, not Dubai. And boohoo to them, they have it very easy.

funkyouup

What as joke, the government obviously dont care that that driving around in V12's is already to expensive on the oul gogo juice.

frank gooding

Is the Irony lost on someone.

150 cents per liter in Ireland I think is the point.

Why are we not in the street??????

Bogger77

frank gooding wrote: »

Is the Irony lost on someone.

150 cents per liter in Ireland I think is the point.

Why are we not in the street??????

cos we don't have oil wells

Retail Hell

I'll cope with the cost of the increase in my juice, althought its only a 15% increase in Dubai, I can fill my Toyota Landcruiser for about 120 Dibs about 20-25 Euro, for a 4 litre engine

cadaliac

frank gooding wrote: »

Is the Irony lost on someone.

150 cents per liter in Ireland I think is the point.

Why are we not in the street??????

Same reason we aren't out on the streets protesting about the current financial\banking\governnment\tosser fiasco.
Everyone is afraid to loose their jobs.

squod

gbee wrote: »

http://gulfnews.com/business/oil-gas/qatar-raises-prices-of-petrol-diesel-1.751100

That's 22 Cent in Euro per litre. And that's after a 25% rise.

That place is full of bleedin' fordiners.

coylemj

frank gooding wrote: »

Is the Irony lost on someone.

150 cents per liter in Ireland I think is the point.

Why are we not in the street??????

Why aren't you on the street or are you just another one of those armchair revolutionaries?

Petrol is even more expensive in the UK, what's to achieve by hitting the streets?

chris85

Its also more expensive in most european countries to be fair. its rising steadily here too, new taxes didnt help.

There are calls to cut these taxes but wont happen.

yawnstretch

I hope our petrol goes through the roof.

We're perfectly setup to be an electric car haven in this country. We could set a good example (like we did with the cigarette ban which no one expected us to pull off).

Let these eejits drink their oil while we set ourselves up for long term, sustainable success.

funkyouup

yawnstretch wrote: »

I hope our petrol goes through the roof.

We're perfectly setup to be an electric car haven in this country.

Could you explain to me why we are set up to be an electric car haven?

Heroditas

yawnstretch wrote: »

I hope our petrol goes through the roof.

We're perfectly setup to be an electric car haven in this country. We could set a good example

How many electric cars were produced worldwide last year?
How many electric cars are currently produced worldwide?
How many electric cars need to be produced worldwide between now and 2020 in order for the Irish government to meet their target of 10% of Irish vehicles to be powered by electricity?
What is the current growth in electric car production?

Yeah I hope petrol goes through the roof here alright.
What are we supposed to do until these magical cars hit the market with their eminently affordable prices?

Bigus

funkyouup wrote: »

Could you explain to me why we are set up to be an electric car haven?

Because its windy and wavey and good plate to grow wood and willow

Atlantic Dawn

yawnstretch wrote: »

I hope our petrol goes through the roof.

We're perfectly setup to be an electric car haven in this country. We could set a good example (like we did with the cigarette ban which no one expected us to pull off).

Let these eejits drink their oil while we set ourselves up for long term, sustainable success.

There's a good 25 billion worth of cars on our roads to get rid of first, perhaps the IMF would like to take them as part payment

yawnstretch

Heroditas wrote: »

How many electric cars were produced worldwide last year?
How many electric cars are currently produced worldwide?
How many electric cars need to be produced worldwide between now and 2020 in order for the Irish government to meet their target of 10% of Irish vehicles to be powered by electricity?
What is the current growth in electric car production?

Yeah I hope petrol goes through the roof here alright.
What are we supposed to do until these magical cars hit the market with their eminently affordable prices?

We won't have any electric cars until nations start to buy them. If we wait too long it'll be an oil war eventually.

Trotter

I'd happily drive an electric car.. But not til I can buy one cheaper than or the same as a fuel car. No point paying extra for the hassle of looking for power points.

yawnstretch

Bigus wrote: »

Because its windy and wavey and good plate to grow wood and willow

And because setting up the infrastructure is faster in a small country here than rolling out across US for example.

Raskolnikov

frank gooding wrote: »

Is the Irony lost on someone.

150 cents per liter in Ireland I think is the point.

Why are we not in the street??????

Feckin' aye. Ring Joe Duffy!

Heroditas

yawnstretch wrote: »

We won't have any electric cars until nations start to buy them.

Yet in the meantime you hope petrol price rocket, which will leave to people effectively being stranded in the countryside.

yawnstretch wrote: »

If we wait too long it'll be an oil war eventually.

Remember that conflict in the Middle East that started in 2003?

Atlantic Dawn

Raskolnikov wrote: »

Feckin' aye. Ring Joe Duffy!

It;s terrible Joe it's terrible, I can only do the smaller cruises now on the friday night, it's just not fair anymore, how is a lad expected to pull the birds of a friday night with the Civic

funkyouup

So you going to explain to me how we are set up to be an electic car haven? Or shall we just discuss the inevitable oil war.

dr.fuzzenstein

Bogger77 wrote: »

cos we don't have oil wells

I'm sure we do, only the government is too lazy, stupid and incompetent to look for it.
And if they found it, they'd give it away for a brown envelope.

Heroditas

funkyouup wrote: »

So you going to explain to me how we are set up to be an electic car haven? Or shall we just discuss the inevitable oil war.

We're building loads of those turney windmill thingies here.
They won't work in weather with high pressure though when the wind doesn't blow so we'll just have to walk to work on those days, i.e. frosty cold winter days.

funkyouup

Trotter wrote: »

I'd happily drive an electric car.. But not til I can buy one cheaper than or the same as a fuel car. No point paying extra for the hassle of looking for power points.

Its a great deal of hassle when you take into account the time it will take to recharge the batteries, it wont be a few minutes at the charging station, thats one certainty but thats neither here nor there.
And one final point, even if petrol prices do go through the roof more so people will still buy it.

dr.fuzzenstein

yawnstretch wrote: »

I hope our petrol goes through the roof.

We're perfectly setup to be an electric car haven in this country. We could set a good example (like we did with the cigarette ban which no one expected us to pull off).

Let these eejits drink their oil while we set ourselves up for long term, sustainable success.

There is no alternative to petrol/diesel at the moment.
People have to get to work, public transport is only set up to work for the unemployed and pensioners who live in the city centre and have all day to travel 5 km, electric cars take 3 days to go from Dublin to Limerick, cost around the E30k mark (which I can only laugh at like a drainpipe) and after a few years the batteries are shot.
Also, the government will wait till everyone has electric and then simply put electricity through the roof and double road tax on them, they need money after all.
If petrol/diesel goes through the roof a lot of people will loose their jobs and their home, what good does that do?
I suppose since they're unemployed they will either sit on the couch because they can't afford a car or they can't afford to go anywhere or they will move abroad to a proper country CO2 emissions here will drop to 17th century levels.
Along with living standards in the country.
You might as well bring the famine back, not enough food? Just starve half the population to death, problem solved, simples!
Irish problem, Irish solution.
So, if diesel goes through the roof I will sell my car, waltz into the dole office shouting "SHOW ME THE MONEY!", buy an X-Box and move onto my couch until things improve, but meanwhile, let someone else fix it.
I paid tax like a complete fool thinking the government did something worthwhile with it.
From now on I might make it a hobby to fall over a lot in government and sue the cnuts for everything I can get.
We've all be made fools of, let's fcuk them back.

L1011

I actually saw TWO electric light trucks this week, there seems to be some level of growth there... and only one was owned by the ESB!

Funfair

yawnstretch wrote: »

(like we did with the cigarette ban which no one expected us to pull off).

And ruined the only place to get away from all the tax's in the process e.g. the pub

CompleteCarGuy

I was in Dubai over Christmas - fuel was a whopping 33 cents a litre

gbee

CompleteCarGuy wrote: »

I was in Dubai over Christmas - fuel was a whopping 33 cents a litre

I seem to have got a slightly different reply with my search, but still amazing. And to consider on the stock market today it's 12.3C per litre

stephendevlin

If it were cheaper here we would all be driving 4.0's 4.4's petrol guzzlers like the states.

Tea 1000

yawnstretch wrote: »

I hope our petrol goes through the roof.

We're perfectly setup to be an electric car haven in this country. We could set a good example (like we did with the cigarette ban which no one expected us to pull off).

Let these eejits drink their oil while we set ourselves up for long term, sustainable success.

How did you find your way into a motors forum?

Back on topic, goes to show what a sham the whole CO2 emissions lark is. Unless the whole world gets on board, what's the point in someone here being forced out of a V12 engine to a 4 cylinder diesel, when countries like this burn it as if it were going out of fashion? There's an indoor Skiing resort in Dubai for feck sake, and it made from actual snow, artifically generated. Not one of these dry slopes like we have here. That place probably burns more fuel in an hour than all the V8's and V12's in Ireland do in a week!

thirtythirty

Tea 1000 wrote: »

How did you find your way into a motors forum?

Back on topic, goes to show what a sham the whole CO2 emissions lark is. Unless the whole world gets on board, what's the point in someone here being forced out of a V12 engine to a 4 cylinder diesel, when countries like this burn it as if it were going out of fashion? There's an indoor Skiing resort in Dubai for feck sake, and it made from actual snow, artifically generated. Not one of these dry slopes like we have here. That place probably burns more fuel in an hour than all the V8's and V12's in Ireland do in a week!

Ye, but we have grass and they don't. And that's cuz we're environmentally friendly and they aren't.

91011

In Dubai petrol is subsidised as a "gift" to those in the country. - Current refinery price for unleaded is about 49c

The good news is prices are set to drop a little over the next couple of weeks as the dollar has weakend and the brent oil price has fallen a little to $96.

gbee

91011 wrote: »

In Dubai petrol is subsidised as a "gift" to those in the country. - Current refinery price for unleaded is about 49c.

Below cost selling ha! We better get some agency onto that right away, who's our foreign minister? Stella, "book Concord for a trip to Dubai immediately .!"

flyer88

Just shows how ripped off we are getting in this country...nearly 1 euro more expensive!! Scanless

Cuddlesworth

Funfair wrote: »

And ruined the only place to get away from all the tax's in the process e.g. the pub

Yeah because they definitely don't tax alcohol.

longhalloween

Bigus wrote: »

Because its windy and wavey and good plate to grow wood and willow

All excellent methods of fueling cars :rolleyes:

I think we'll be back to the days of gasogens and turf trains soon enough...

bluenose1956

I'm based in an oil producing country in North Africa, petrol sells for the equivalent of 12/13c per litre. The price has not moved in the last two years.

One thing to consider though is that this country has an extremely low average wage and the cost of petrol is a large drain on their salary.

GTE

yawnstretch wrote: »

I hope our petrol goes through the roof.

We're perfectly setup to be an electric car haven in this country. We could set a good example (like we did with the cigarette ban which no one expected us to pull off).

Let these eejits drink their oil while we set ourselves up for long term, sustainable success.

Committing ourselves to electric cars charged up at home IMO would be a major mistake.

Electric car technology has not developed like it should in light of low oil stocks and rushing into it now will not help us.

What I think we should do is focus on more economical diesel and petrol cars while investing in new more sensible electric cars. Possibly ones that would work more like a diesel electric locomotive. Electricity generation in the vehicle itself which powers electric motors and maybe a reserve battery.

Until getting a battery powered electric car or any electric based vehicle up to full power as quick as filling up at a pump I don't support a move to it.

The move from diesel and petrol to alternative sources has happened too late, which is regrettable but an immediate move triggered by oil prices into technology that is not ready will only end in a mistake and rushed "innovation" like turning Ireland into a battery powered electric car haven.

PrzemoF

gbee wrote: »

http://gulfnews.com/business/oil-gas/qatar-raises-prices-of-petrol-diesel-1.751100

That's 22 Cent in Euro per litre. And that's after a 25% rise.

I'm wondering how much they have to pay for tap water.

bluenose1956

Quote "I'm wondering how much they have to pay for tap water."

Where I am located a half litre bottle of water is equal to about 15c, and just to remind you the one litre of petrol is 12/13c!!

mimi7365

Great posts, specially the windy and wavey one!!Made me laugh out loud:D

af_thefragile

Bogger77 wrote: »

cos we don't have oil wells

Not according to Jim Corr...



And yesterday I filled up with petrol worth 145.9c/litre.
It hurt pressing the leaver on the fuel hose...

Funfair

91011 wrote: »

In Dubai petrol is subsidised as a "gift" to those in the country. - Current refinery price for unleaded is about 49c

The good news is prices are set to drop a little over the next couple of weeks as the dollar has weakend and the brent oil price has fallen a little to $96.

That here or Dubai ^ ?

Funfair

af_thefragile wrote: »

It hurt pressing the leaver on the fuel hose...

lol good one !!

Eric Cartman

If only dubai wasnt so warm....

Subsidised fuel sounds brilliant , Its still hard to think that diesel was 89 cent a litre some time in 08 and its 1.39 a litre now

ill take 22c/l petrol any day, buy me a ford f350

tweedledee

Petrol is more expensive Down Unda but EVERYBODY(except Asians) drives around in massive Holdon or Ford V8's???????Insurance must be cheap or something:D

L1011

tweedledee wrote: »

Petrol is more expensive Down Unda but EVERYBODY(except Asians) drives around in massive Holdon or Ford V8's???????Insurance must be cheap or something:D

TP insurance is included in fuel price in some parts of Australia, e.g. its free if you don't want personal cover.

Eric Cartman

tweedledee wrote: »

Petrol is more expensive Down Unda but EVERYBODY(except Asians) drives around in massive Holdon or Ford V8's???????Insurance must be cheap or something:D

most of the pickups and 4x4s in oz are the same diesel models we get here, weekend cars etc are far more common in oz and theyre the petrol ones