What's the cheapest one remembers a litlre (or Gallon) of petrol in Ireland?

i_am_job

Don't go any earlier than mid 1991 .. when I was born .. cheers

you can also include Northern Ireland in your answer if you want.

same for Diesel

-Corkie-

I have a picture at home of a very young me filling my fairly new Carina E with petrol for 50p a litre..

Marcusm

My grandad had a garage in Galway and I can remember my brother and I helping out at the pumps late 70s (when we were under 10). I think it was a £1 or so per gallon so a lot cheaper than now. The lumps were old so you had to multiply the price by 4 to get the real price - his pump was set up with 2 digits (in pence) to charge per gallon.

snaps

Ive still got my 1st ever receipt from filling my old ford XR3 up in 1986 back in the UK. £1.68/gallon which i think is about .37p/l??

AugustusMinimus

snaps wrote: »

Ive still got my 1st ever receipt from filling my old ford XR3 up in 1986 back in the UK. £1.68/gallon which i think is about .37p/l??

I would imagine, with inflation, petrol must be cheaper now than it was back then ?

dgt

AugustusMinimus wrote: »

I would imagine, with inflation, petrol must be cheaper now than it was back then ?

I barely remember in 1994 petrol was 45p and diesel was 38p a litre in the local town. Petrol in the north worked out a few pence cheaper per litre after conversion rates too!

My dad often told me of how people would fill their cars with a few schillings worth (or a pounds worth for huge cars) of petrol at Christmas in the 60s :eek:

He told me in 1970 that petrol was 31p "new money" a gallon for premium petrol...

snaps

AugustusMinimus wrote: »

I would imagine, with inflation, petrol must be cheaper now than it was back then ?

Possibly, but i remember though not long after 1986, the British government started raising the tax content steeply on fuel, from something like 60% to about 85%

vandriver

£1.68 would equate to about £3.80 now,so fuel has doubled in real terms.
I read somewhere that all the gains in fuel economy have been taken in higher taxes by the government.

colm_mcm

I remember 47.9. Think that was around 1990

gyppo

I remember buying petrol at 45p/litre at the famous filling station on the south quay in Dublin! This place achieved fame as being the most expensive fuel station in the country during the good years..

PaulKK

I remember around 1998 going to school and the garage beside it had diesel for 43p a litre.

Wish it was that now


Also remember having to get a gallon of leaded petrol for our lawnmower and carry it home on the bike.

Jesus I sound ancient and I'm only 25!

unkel

in the mid 90s petrol was around 55p for years

Satanta

My first job was a pump attendant in 1991.

As far as I remember, diesel was in the mid 40s and petrol was 49p

Loads of people used to come in for a 5er at a time. Itd take about 15 Euro now to buy the same amount.

Jello

I was born in 1991 and cheapest I can remember is 88.9... I haven't a clue if that was in pounds or euro mind you.

questionquick

http://www.aaireland.ie/AA/Motoring-advice/~/media/Files/AA%20Ireland/Reports/Fuelprices%20history_Oct11.ashx

Southeast Gravecare Services

I remember working as a lad in a petrol station. the average buy would be £1 some people would come in and get even 50p worth. I remember filling a Jaguar XJ6 one day, they had double tanks(4.2 ltr engine) it took £8 to fill it. Another day I left the filler tap in a car with the autofill switch on, the driver drove off thinking it was finished and pulled down the petrol tank, petrol everywhere, lucky no flames touched it, turned off mains quickley.Lived to tell the tale.

PaulKK

Southeast Gravecare Services wrote: »

I remember working as a lad in a petrol station. the average buy would be £1 some people would come in and get even 50p worth.

Lol.

Was working for a landscaper about 4/5 years ago and needed petrol for a lawnmower and had no can for the petrol. Lobbed the mower into the back of a transit and tipped down to the petrol station. Filled up the mower for about 1.50 and headed inside.

Said "1.50 petrol" to the one on the till and she goes "I hope you didn't put that in a car!"

alias no.9

Worked in a petrol station in the early/mid '90s and diesel was consistently 49.9p with petrol in the mid 50p's.

ottostreet

Stop. This is depressing.

Minister Boyce

-Corkie- wrote: »

I have a picture at home of a very young me filling my fairly new Carina E with petrol for 50p a litre..

Post it up!! Would be interesting to see both the Petrol Price sign and the carina:D

Senna

I bought my first car in 2000, a 1994 Diatatsu Charade 1ltr Diesel. The fella i bough it off give me £20 "lucks penny" back for diesel. The gauge was right at the bottom when i got to a garage to fill it up, i was delighted when the car only took £18 to fill.

edit; that cant be right, even if i only put 30 ltr's in thats still 60p a litre, it wasn't that cheap in 2000, was it?????

Mr Simpson

I don't really remember it less than about 90c per litre, but then again google tells me that was about 2004, so I was only 14

unkel

questionquick wrote: »

http://www.aaireland.ie/AA/Motoring-advice/~/media/Files/AA%20Ireland/Reports/Fuelprices%20history_Oct11.ashx

Nice link, thanks!

In € though so you can see that those figures back up my point that in the mid to late 90s petrol was roughly 55p per litre

darragh o meara

Senna wrote: »

I bought my first car in 2000, a 1994 Diatatsu Charade 1ltr Diesel.

Some yoke on diesel them Charades. Had one myself for a while!!

I remember petrol being about the 50p mark back in the 90s. I now cringe every time I have to fill up knowing how much is going back to the government!! Robbing b@574rds.

vectra

I remember a Pounds worth of petrol got you a nice distance.. I can't remember exactly how much a gallon was. This was in the '70's but I can remember quite plain during the same era a Pint of Guinness was 28p..Smithwicks was 29p and Carling/Harp was 32p.. And I was earning the sum total of £15 per week back then

On another note when I had my Ascona and vectra petrol was balancing around £2.30 a gallon.

Richard

I remember filling up in 1998 somewhere near Westport and it was 40p/litre, which is £1.82/gallon

Never seen it close to that since.

djimi

I started driving in 2001 and the cheapest I think Ive ever paid for petrol in Ireland was 79p/litre. I think the norm when I started driving was 85p-90p. I still remember how expensive it seemed when it crept over £1; if only I knew then how good that price would seem ten years later!

conzy

I definitely remember filling a gallon can of petrol for the lawnmower and getting a good bit of change from a fiver. Would be 8 euro now

Joe 90

OSI wrote: »

Look at the price difference to Super Unleaded. :eek: Imagine how much it would be going for these days.

Is it totally impossible toe get super unleaded in Ireland these days?

On the prices, going well before the OPs suggested 1991 cut off, I remember as a child in the 50s hearing that petrol was 5 bob, that's 25 pence to you youngsters a gallon, say 6 pence a litre. We lived beside the border and petrol was generally cheaper in the North but not always.
It gradually did creep upwards through the 60's and took a serious jump after the 73 Arab - Israeli war.
I remember when living in London in 72 I had a fairly serious Mini with twin tanks. A friend of mine used to borrow it and I complained one time that he usually brought it back as near as dammit empty. He said that he always put two in each tank the same as I did. He was putting in two gallons in each tank while I ws putting in two pounds worth, a helluva lot more.

Joe 90

OSI wrote: »

I haven't seen it anywhere, but would be interested in hearing if it was still available somewhere.

I was there a few years ago in the Exige and i did fill up at a BP place somewhere on the way to Wicklow from a pump labelled Optimax but I read somewhere afterwards that the Optimax in Ireland was in fact 95 RON, maybe alcohol free though?

Fiona

It was around the 90c when I started driving. I miss them days

faceman

I know its not that old, but I have a receipt in front of me from 17th February 2009 and it quotes a petrol price of €1.059 per litre.

It cost €59 to fill the car.
It now costs me €90.

Imagine what prices will be like in another 3 years?

rainbowtrout

Got my first car in late 98 and petrol was 55/56p a litre which would be about 70c when converted....

Vicxas

I remember petrol used to cost 89c. Nearly came in my pants. Now we're so happy when its under 1.50c