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Fuel prices

  • 06-05-2012 8:18pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,115 ✭✭✭✭


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    Hang on till I dig out my crystal ball.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,177 ✭✭✭MickySticks


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,024 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,115 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Posts: 23,339 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,115 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,157 ✭✭✭Compton


    cool


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,714 ✭✭✭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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,306 ✭✭✭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. :D






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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭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....:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭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:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,065 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭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!?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭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.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭messrs


    1.64 in palmerstown


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,580 ✭✭✭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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭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!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭Cork boy 55


    Nope
    not enough oil too many people


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,760 ✭✭✭✭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!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,580 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,306 ✭✭✭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




    .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 773 ✭✭✭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:.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,523 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,032 ✭✭✭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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,883 ✭✭✭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.

    ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,892 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,144 ✭✭✭✭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.


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