Fuel prices

cena

Well we ever see the prices drop down alot in the future

Anan1

Hang on till I dig out my crystal ball.

MickySticks

It's dropped around 1 or 2c around Kildare in the past week or so.

Owryan

Esso near me in Carlow dropped from 166.9 to 160.99 since yesterday.

Maxol near to it went from 166.9 to 160.9 to 164.9 in the same 2 days.

Just glad to see it creep back from the 1.70 mark

cena

I put 20 euro in my punto and I just don't get the same value as my mothers car ( 07 ASTRA) if I put 20 euro in it.

.... that's independent of the price of it really.

CiniO

cena wrote: »

I put 20 euro in my punto and I just don't get the same value as my mothers car ( 07 ASTRA) if I put 20 euro in it.

Maybe you are buying petrol while she buys diesel which is cheaper.
That's why you don't get the same value:D

cena

CiniO wrote: »

Maybe you are buying petrol while she buys diesel which is cheaper.
That's why you don't get the same value:D

No its petrol i'm afraid.

Compton

cool

Darwin

cena wrote: »

Well we ever see the prices drop down alot in the future

Currently €2 a litre for petrol in parts of Paris, coming to an Irish station near you soon!

MrFrisp

cena wrote: »

Well we ever see the prices drop down alot in the future

"A lot" ? No...

A few cent,,maybe,,,before they put it up again...

It'll never come down that much anymore..If they thought it was going to,,they'll invent a war or something is some country,and blame that..

Or say 2 bugs are fighting on another planet We have never heard of,,and use that excuse to up the price of oil again.






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corktina

I'm confident petrol prices will fall by 50c before the New Year.






mind you i'm also confident the price will rise by a euro before Christmas....:)

ART6

Political unrest in the Middle East and sanctions against Iran, coupled to the debt problems in the Eurozone that are resulting in the decline of the euro against the dollar, and our government's urge to tax everything to oblivion -- you will only see significant rises for the foreseeable future, is my bet.

tuxy

I think the price will go down when people realise that oil is actually a renewiable source of energy. We have been lied to all along :mad:

leonidas83

Darwin wrote: »

Currently €2 a litre for petrol in parts of Paris, coming to an Irish station near you soon!

Not necessarily, motor tax is alot cheaper on the continent, thats why the likes of Holland and France are around the two euro mark. They have the right idea, tax the people who use the most, not just everyone irrespective of how much they drive which is a backward system imo.

thirtythirty

tuxy wrote: »

I think the price will go down when people realise that oil is actually a renewiable source of energy. We have been lied to all along :mad:

Can't tell if serious....care to explain this!?

Mycroft H

tuxy wrote: »

I think the price will go down when people realise that oil is actually a renewiable source of energy. We have been lied to all along :mad:

What in the what now?

Fair enough in the geological time scale the carbon cycle will make full circle but its not renewable in the sense that solar power is.

BX 19

BX 19 wrote: »

What in the what now?

Fair enough in the geological time scale the carbon cycle will make full circle but its not renewable in the sense that solar power is.

Turn on your sarcasm filters lads.

messrs

1.64 in palmerstown

eth0

If they ever find a way to make petrol out of algae in a way that doesn't cost $800 per barrel we might have a chance.

Squeeonline

I've noticed it come down about 4c over the last couple of weeks.

Can we do a little experiment? Everyone please stop driving, that will reduce demand the price should fall too.

ART6

eth0 wrote: »

If they ever find a way to make petrol out of algae in a way that doesn't cost $800 per barrel we might have a chance.

If someone found out how to do this for $1 per barrel then our government would charge $799 per barrel duty and VAT. You is on a loser there mate!

Cork boy 55

Nope
not enough oil too many people

Marcusm

Darwin wrote: »

Currently €2 a litre for petrol in parts of Paris, coming to an Irish station near you soon!

Really, I filled up for 1.78/L for 98ron about a fortnight ago. Paid 2.0465 in Italy for the same and 1.60 in Liechtenstein!!

Squeeonline

use http://pumps.ie/

and help keep things updated so people can buy from the cheapest sources locally and support the companies/retailers that have the lowest prices.

MrFrisp

Fuel prices coming down due to this I wonder? ........ http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0504/oil-rebounds-following-previous-days-big-losses.html




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D_murph

I doubt that will help us out much TBH. When oil prices rise, we get royally shafted andwhen they go back down, even to what they were initially, the prices at the pumps only drops a (disproportionally :rolleyes:) little bit. Someone is definitely pocketing the difference at our expense :mad:.

Atlantic Dawn

spottyelephant wrote: »

Can't tell if serious....care to explain this!?

It's down to the belief that oil is abiotic and so a renewable resource, very interesting reading here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/on-energy/2011/09/14/abiotic-oil-a-theory-worth-exploring

eth0

ART6 wrote: »

If someone found out how to do this for $1 per barrel then our government would charge $799 per barrel duty and VAT. You is on a loser there mate!

The person making them for $1 would have to fill a few brown envelopes to prevent that from happening

Jimbob 83

It will reach a point soon where car makers interests and complete loss of the motor vehicle fuel needs (people buying electric vehicles) will make the price level out, alot of it is tax so tax relief is the obvious likely answer but we will see.

pa990

Jimbob 83 wrote: »

It will reach a point soon where car makers interests and complete loss of the motor vehicle fuel needs (people buying electric vehicles) will make the price level out, alot of it is tax so tax relief is the obvious likely answer but we will see.

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spank_inferno

Oil prices (Brent) are round the same level that they were in 2008.

However the Euro is much weaker vs the dollar since then so the price is skewed over here.
Plus governments love to tax the sh*t out of it.

So a reduction in taxation and or the Euro becoming stronger will change the situation at the pumps.

kippy

The overall trend for oil based products will be upwards, yeah there may be some periods of stability or some reductions but they won't last long.
Asia is growing rapidly and the use of cars, oil/gas burning stations as well as the rowback on Nucleur power in parts of Asia will all do more to increase the price of Oil. That coupled with the issues in the middle east and the higher extraction costs elsewhere for Oil and it is only going one way.

Anyone commuting long distances is going to be hit big time unless they review their options. The prices of goods and services will increase because of increasing transportation costs.