Petrol Prices?

gimmick

Wheres the best place to go for petrol around the city at the moment? It seems everywhere is gone €1+. Anyone know anywhere where, where its sub €1. In principle I havent paid over €1 yet, but its looking increasingly likely ill have to succumb sooner or later.

Perhaps, if anyone sees a decent price for fuel, post it here, so that way we can keep abreast of whats happening and not get more ripped off than we need to.

I realsie we are talking savings of cents, but why pay more?

dahamsta

I couldn't believe it when I went to the garage last month and saw the prices. Forking loony-toons, cost over €70 to fill my penis extension. Thank the gods I don't actually have to drive anywhere, like, far away!

adam

KNS

Try:

http://www.irishfuelprices.com

beer enigma

Its madness - I'm seriously thinking of selling my Alfa as she's just too juicy. Like you Adam, costs about €70 to fill - trouble is, I DO use mine quite a bit........

Generally use either the Shell or the Esso in Douglas - both 99.9 at the moment (he says like its cheap !!!)

rymus

Is Midleton still as cheap as it used to be or have they caught up with the rest of the city?

Theres a couple of palces outside Roscarbery that have cheap motion lotion if anyone wants to take a spin... Thank Gawd I have a diesel card.. I normally end up looking for the most expensive fuel I can find

Nukem

dahamsta wrote:

cost over €70 to fill my penis extension

Christ thats some extension. What is it an M1 Ambrihams Tank?

Nukem

beer enigma

Tesco have partial planning for a filling station at Wilton & Mahon point - if it gets through, that should halp the local prices

lostinsuperfunk

Midleton Shell (Ballinacurra Rd) was 99.9c per litre unleaded on Saturday.

daveirl

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MidnightQueen

Great topic to post up! My parents and friends are always going on about the price of petrol and where to find the cheapest. So far theres a cheap petrol station in Mitchelstown up by Dairygold.

Does anyone know of any around Mallow or Charleville?

dahamsta

Nukem wrote:

Christ thats some extension. What is it an M1 Ambrihams Tank?

'93 525i. Complete self-indulgence that I occasionally feel guilty about - tax alone costs over €800 - but then I give it some juice in a corner and the tail pops out and the guilt mysteriously disappears...

adam

brettmirl

109.9 for diesel in the Esso on the Cork road in bandon - that is the dearest I have seen in a while!

Nukem

dahamsta wrote:

'93 525i. Complete self-indulgence that I occasionally feel guilty about - tax alone costs over €800 - but then I give it some juice in a corner and the tail pops out and the guilt mysteriously disappears...

Ah yes a beast:eek:
Paying the tax you must go in with your pants down and get ready a good shafting.
Me gets away with 151euro tax but then i go into a corner push the accelerator and nothing happens:mad: .....................shakes fist a Damhasta in BMW.

Nukem

rymus

mick_irl wrote:

109.9 for diesel in the Esso on the Cork road in bandon - that is the dearest I have seen in a while!

Gah! If only it was Statoil I'd go down there and fill up...

PowerHouseDan

Douglas Both station there 99.9 Maxol on Boreenamana R.d is 99.9 the dearest i've seen is 1.09.9 The Mazda Garage by Turners Cross(Petrol that is)

flyz

I got mine for 97.9 in the Top Station in Blarney yesterday.

It's 99.9 in the Commons Road as well.

Charlivelle last time I passed through was 98.9 I think

brettmirl

rymus wrote:

Gah! If only it was Statoil I'd go down there and fill up...

Yeah have the diesel card for statoil too myself. Where is the dearest you found for that?

dahamsta

Nukem wrote:

Paying the tax you must go in with your pants down and get ready a good shafting.

Actually I'm just paying half this time around, take it out of sync with the insurance, both of which add up to a real killer. Especially after you've just been shafted with a €1200 front suspension rebuild...

Me gets away with 151euro tax but then i go into a corner push the accelerator and nothing happens:mad: .....................shakes fist a Damhasta in BMW.

BMW drivers get a lot of that apparently - I don't see it so much meself - but it's the Merc drivers you have to watch out for. At least many MBW drivers know how to, you know, drive...

adam

gimmick

The best Ive seen recently is the Shell next to Dinos on the Commons Rd - only 98.5c

the evil belly

saw 98.9 in dennehys cross. must fill up in blarney in futre though

deRanged

I paid 97.9 in Midleton yesterday. Much better than 1.15 in France on Saturday.

corblimey

And if you don't want to go as far as Midleton, there's a little garage in Carrigtwohill that pretty much always matches that price. It's on the left just as you're coming out of the village back onto the N25. Try not to disturb the locals

the evil belly

97.9 now in dennehys cross and 98.9 in ballincollig

brettmirl

paid 94.9c for diesel in maynooth on friday in Statoil. Was 102.9 on the signs in cork when i got back down.

smileygal

97.9 in Wilton Statoil today :cool:

kevinroche

Glanmire is still 97.9 as far as I know. Otherwise, up the hill to Mayfield by the RUC station style shopping centre where the price is 98.9

vector

kevinroche wrote:

Glanmire is still 97.9 as far as I know. Otherwise, up the hill to Mayfield by the RUC station style shopping centre where the price is 98.9

I've always wondered why some garage doesn't just build loads of spare tanks and fill them up when the wholesale price is low and then undercut slightly, but consitently their competitors, they could get a name for cheapness and people would drive there without question

dahamsta

Legal requirement on the amount stations can store for safety reasons possibly? (I'm speculating.)

adam

lostinsuperfunk

I've always wondered why some garage doesn't just build loads of spare tanks and fill them up when the wholesale price is low

There are 2 reasons not to do this. One is that if you are sitting on a huge tank of petrol all your cash is tied up in it. You already paid the wholesaler for it, but it might take you months to get your cash back by selling it to customers. That cash could be earning you interest in the bank.

The second reason is to do with risk. It's very difficult to guess whether prices are going to go up or down in the future. They might *look* low now, so you buy a load of petrol, then the prices go down and you have to sell at a loss.

Also, building giant tanks is expensive. And the wholesaler has already done that. 3 reasons

snow scorpion

$2.10 per gallon = what? 42c per liter?

:cool:

(Sorry about that everybody.)

vector

actually what I've described is a wholesaler, its nothing new, lets move on.

Judes

I'm out in Cobh and the prices there are always outrageous - so I won't fill up there - but when I occasionally forget and it's pointing towards Empty - I'll stop at the local and get something like €3-€5 worth - which is enough to get me to work and fill up elsewhere on the way home i.e. Mayfield/Midleton/Douglas - depending on where I am. Maybe if people did this, or just boycotted the expensive stations, they'd lower their prices.

A few months ago I did ask a TD why this practice was allowed - that surely there should be a set price - as people who live in the sticks ie. where there is only one station for miles are totally ripped off - alas - doesn't look like anyone wants to cross the Petroleum Shop Boys! J

Delphi91

97.4 here in Limerick.

TattyTeddy

cheapest ive seen is Carrigaline by Lennox's. 98. something

reic

97.9 Texaco, Model Farm Road.

gimmick

Anywhere less that €1 at the moment?

Illkillya

flyz wrote:

I got mine for 97.9 in the Top Station in Blarney yesterday.

This is the place that was charging 106.5 when everyone else was charging 97.9 and was one of the most expensive petrol stations around for most of last year. Has done a U-turn now though.

dahamsta

I went to the Dunmahon Esso yesterday and nearly freaked when I looked behind me and saw something like €1.05. Is it that much across the board atm?

adam

Illkillya

ya very common, even that place advertising budget petrol on the model farm road is 102.9

dahamsta

Crazy. My bus was just starting to get slightly more economical, presumably because of the pre-NCT full service. Now I'm back to nearly €70 a fill again.

adam

reic

That Peugeot place near Dennehy's X is now 106.9/litre.

gimmick

one stop shop - http://www.irishfuelprices.com/

Rippy

Saw 109.9 petrol, 105.9 deisel today, trying to remember where,might have been Maxol at bottom of Donnybrook hill or Statoil by Kinsale roundabout.
Is that a record?

Dizzyblabla

Rippy wrote:

Saw 109.9 petrol, 105.9 deisel today, trying to remember where,might have been Maxol at bottom of Donnybrook hill or Statoil by Kinsale roundabout.
Is that a record?

It's been 109.9 for awhile in Turners Cross Motor's, maybe that's where you saw it?

Rippy

Yeah could have been, scary alright! I might even have to slow down...between the price of gas and the guards revenue raising attempts...

deRanged

Rippy wrote:

Saw 109.9 petrol, Is that a record?

nope - it's 111.9 in Cobh.

reic

Saw a place in Millstreet yesterday - 114.9!!! People were actually filling up.

gimmick

115.9 in the ESSO in Ballyvolane. Thief :rolleyes:

cee_jay

Its only 103.9 in the Amber and Campus stations in Charleville - they always seem to be around the cheapest!

Rippy

reic wrote:

Saw a place in Millstreet yesterday - 114.9!!! People were actually filling up.

Many people would still be filling up if the price was 214.9.
They will continue to put there €20 of petrol in at the same station they have always used, without even noticing the price. Also how many petrol stations in Millstreet 1? maybe 2.

parsi

104.9 in Shell Douglas..