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Warning: Petrol Price Hike

  • 27-07-2005 3:13pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,572 ✭✭✭✭


    I suggest topping up your tanks on the way home tonight. This is getting ridiculous....

    http://www.breakingnews.ie/2005/07/27/story213666.html
    Texaco to raise petrol prices from midnight
    27/07/2005 - 15:43:47

    From midnight tonight the price of petrol could be taking a massive leap.

    Texaco have suggested that retailers should put unleaded up to €1.21 and diesel up to €1.17.

    If this happens, it will mean prices will have jumped 20% compared to this time last year.

    Michael Kilcoyne of the Consumers Association says the petrol price war is getting out of hand.

    Mr Kilcoyne said: "There is no price control on the price of petrol.

    "It is really up to the seller of the petrol to decide whether he wants to charge a euro or two euro per litre. At the end of the day, once he displays the price on the forecourt, he can charge what he likes."


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,537 ✭✭✭Downtime


    Ouch. No reports on whether other companies are to follow suit


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,994 ✭✭✭ambro25


    I suggest re-discovering the joys of walking/cycling/taking the bus/Luas, at this pleasant time of year particularly, and let the forecourt people understand sharpishly that competition is supposed to work with lowering prices, not the other way around :D;)

    Edit - incidentally, if anyone knows of an electric scooter FS, I'm game (the full Vespa-sized one, that is, not the kiddie version)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 520 ✭✭✭AlienGav


    Jesus H Christ!!!

    This is fcuking madness! :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    It's ridiculously expensive, but I'm glad I'm on a bike. I can still fill her up for less than €20.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭Sleipnir


    Where are texaco getting this?
    Why now?
    In short, "why, Texaco?"


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 347 ✭✭Norinoco


    Will definitely be filling the tank on the way home.

    Petrol for the car is costing me more than my rent at the moment!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 294 ✭✭the evil belly


    thats gonna hurt the wallet, really makes me wish i didn't quit my job last week and i know i've only another few miles in the tank. time to bite the bullet later i think


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,053 ✭✭✭jimbling


    its only going to get worse people... worse and worse and worse... there will be no let up, and if there is it will only be temporary.

    we are on the downslope to a whole heap of trouble.......


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,364 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Yeah,

    With the Northern Hemisphere now heading towards winter and demand increasing for fuel prices are only going to get higher I'm afraid.

    How long before the truckers start blocking our roads again.

    The Government needs to start reducing tax on fuel to offset this hike, they take something like 60% in tax from the price of a litre of petrol.

    Looks like I will be looking at one of those Prius things. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 172 ✭✭JB123


    jimbling wrote:
    its only going to get worse people... worse and worse and worse... there will be no let up, and if there is it will only be temporary.

    we are on the downslope to a whole heap of trouble.......

    Yeah I think the age of cheap fuel is over.How much oil is left 10 years 40 years? U are gonna see more oil wars on Fox News.All this is enought to drive a man to the dreaded black pump...... :mad:


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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,741 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Still pretty cheap, in fairness. Only Luxembourg has (fractionally) cheaper petrol than Ireland of the countries I've been to in the last six months, and there's sod-all tax on it there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭Sleipnir


    Still pretty cheap, in fairness. Only Luxembourg has (fractionally) cheaper petrol than Ireland of the countries I've been to in the last six months, and there's sod-all tax on it there.


    Well yeah but they don't pay anywhere near the same when you take Insurance, road tax and VRT into account.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,641 ✭✭✭paconnors


    TmB wrote:
    I suggest topping up your tanks on the way home tonight. This is getting ridiculous....


    Lucky i filled up this mornin passin thru moate at 104.5 per ltr :D:D:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 363 ✭✭SparkyLarks


    I do drive a lot with my job but I just don;t think the government should reduce the tax on petrol.

    Ireland is becoming like america with people drivng large Gas guzzler gars.

    WE need to tax petrol to encourage people out of the car.
    As for those who need to use cars to get to work cos the've no public transport. Car pool saves money and the envrionment.

    Though the big issue isn't how I spend on petrol thtaI put intyo my car.
    The cost of delivering goods will go up and so too wiull the price of everything. If petrol prices keep increasing it will have a big impact on the products that we import. Not to mention products which use oil as a raw material/ or as a fuel for the process. And the cost of electricity generated from crude Oil


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,641 ✭✭✭paconnors


    I do drive a lot with my job but I just don;t think the government should reduce the tax on petrol.

    Ireland is becoming like america with people drivng large Gas guzzler gars.

    WE need to tax petrol to encourage people out of the car.
    As for those who need to use cars to get to work cos the've no public transport. Car pool saves money and the envrionment.

    Though the big issue isn't how I spend on petrol thtaI put intyo my car.
    The cost of delivering goods will go up and so too wiull the price of everything. If petrol prices keep increasing it will have a big impact on the products that we import. Not to mention products which use oil as a raw material/ or as a fuel for the process. And the cost of electricity generated from crude Oil

    Can somebody slap some sense into this lad i think he left it some where, who in their right mind would come out with a statement like this :o:o
    I do drive a lot with my job but I just don;t think the government should reduce the tax on petrol.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,884 ✭✭✭grumpytrousers


    Nothing wrong, per se, with the sentiment he/she expresses; whether you agree with it or not is another story. It's about as ridiculous as every year ASH saying the govt should slap a fiver onto a packet of fags so as to encourage people to give up...

    ultimately, if you need the car, you need the car. I'm lucky in that I only 'need' mine for weekend jaunts about the place, but I would think (and shoot me for being wrong here) that there's nothing ideologically wrong with car-pooling; Surely where it can work, it should work?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭528i


    Ireland is becoming like america with people drivng large Gas guzzler gars.

    WE need to tax petrol to encourage people out of the car.
    I think it will hit the transport industry hard, I know one haulage contractor who's already gone to the wall over increasing fuel prices. Apart from frequent pitstops from a decreased range, I don't really think rich folk driving 'gas guzzlers' will give two sh/ts about this to be honest, it's the parsimonious Tdi head-wrecking anoraks who'll be most upset ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,641 ✭✭✭paconnors


    By all means i agree with Car Pooling and public transport, but public Transport where i live is sh!te, one night i waited 45 mins for a 10 oclock bus, asked the driver what was the delay, and was told traffic :D so i depend on my car all the time to get in and out of work!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,439 ✭✭✭ando


    anyone know how to make red diesel?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    its odd that there is not a word on this price hike on either RTE or TV3 news' considering it would have huge effect on the economy


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,641 ✭✭✭paconnors


    ando wrote:
    anyone know how to make red diesel?

    yeah buy green and mix it with tomatto Ketchup :D:D:D:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,676 ✭✭✭ArphaRima


    Michael Kilcoyne of the Consumers Association says the petrol price war is getting out of hand.

    Surely a price war means LOWER prices?
    Ive been out of country for quite a while and I nearly died when I saw the petrol prices as they are. This is getting ridiculous.

    Anyone who thinks that more tax on petroleum is an answer to issues such as congestion and pollution is missing the point quite badly. It also means they are advocating increased prices in milk, bread, clothes, and just about everything. A major price hike cannot be sustained by the worlds economies. Wars are fought over less. I feel we will start seeing a few more soon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 172 ✭✭JB123


    fluffer wrote:
    A major price hike cannot be sustained by the worlds economies. Wars are fought over less. I feel we will start seeing a few more soon.
    Yeah this all part of a bigger picture.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 948 ✭✭✭dcGT


    Are the other oil companies following suit with this big jump?

    DC.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,537 ✭✭✭Downtime



    Texaco price hike condemned as 'unacceptable'
    28/07/2005 - 08:01:51

    The Consumers' Association has condemned Texaco for increasing the price it charges for petrol and diesel.

    The company has hiked the price of a litre of unleaded to €1.21, while a litre of diesel now costs €1.17. These prices are around 20% higher than those being charged at this time last year.

    Consumers' Association spokesman Michael Kilcoyne said the Government should take action to get the situation under control.

    "It is unacceptable the way consumers are being treated in relation to the price of petrol...I demand that the new consumer agency take steps to stop this spiral of price increases," he said.


    I demand - that will do lots.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 363 ✭✭SparkyLarks


    has anyone seen prices in Texaco today.
    Have they gone up?

    I only passed a maxol today and it was 106c


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,376 ✭✭✭Squirrel


    Good thing I told my dad last night, we filled up E155 at 104.9, that's 60 for the Sonata and MR2 and 35 for the Micra

    Sonata ---- 60 ---- 69.21
    MR2 ---- 60 ---- 69.21
    Micra ---- 35 ---- 40.37
    ______________________

    Total ---- 155 ---- 178.79

    :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,537 ✭✭✭Downtime


    Tank was half full last night - put €38 in it at 108.9 to fill it, in Maxol Templeogue - texaco was 109.4 on the Templeogue Dual Carriage Way. Didn't see if it went up this morning.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,082 ✭✭✭Tobias Greeshman


    Tescos is 103.something which is crazy, Maxol and esso are only about 1 or 2cents more expensive. Its gone so fecking expensive to run a car!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Filled up at Esso on the N4 inbound for 106.4 today...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,572 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    Passed by a Texaco this morning... Price was the same as yesterday (107.9)


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 41,242 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Just checked out texaco.ie but they seem to have no news since last November!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,423 ✭✭✭fletch


    Unleaded was 101.9 up until yesterday in the Statoil in Hartstown in Clonsilla, hope it ain't gone up yet cause I think I'll fill up this evening after reading this thread


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭528i


    102.90 (on N2 Finglas Road), I pity those 104.9 fools- could have saved a packet :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,017 ✭✭✭lomb


    still cheap enough in comparision to overall cost of running a car. depreciation/finance cost remains the largest bit still, all this people wanting new 05 cars i have to laugh at them, drive a 97 car for peanuts......


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    Can anyone actually confirm a price hike anywhere ?? A pic might be nice.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,884 ✭✭✭grumpytrousers


    K-TRIC wrote:
    Can anyone actually confirm a price hike anywhere ?? A pic might be nice.
    I'm not sure that I'd trust www.breakingnews.ie . I'm sure that plenty of what appears there turns out to be accurate, but I've a notion that they tend to have the sky news approach to news 'get the story out and check the facts later'...

    I seem to recall a few other stories eminating from there (fourth U2 concert, anyone!) that turned out to be complete horse****...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,994 ✭✭✭ambro25


    TmB wrote:
    Passed by a Texaco this morning... Price was the same as yesterday (107.9)
    has anyone seen prices in Texaco today.
    Have they gone up?

    I only passed a maxol today and it was 106c
    K-TRIC wrote:
    Can anyone actually confirm a price hike anywhere ?? A pic might be nice.

    Anyone get the feeling the OP works for Texaco or Statoil and got a nice "end-of-month marketing" bonus out of this? :D(only joking m8)

    Gone up by €0.01 overnight in/around D16, now €104.99/105.99. Though I distinctly remember something like €0.79-€0.82 back in August '04, when we moved over from the UK. Makes you wonder...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,413 ✭✭✭HashSlinging


    Not that concerned at the moment. getting 800km per tank.

    Torque is cheap (not)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,112 ✭✭✭Sarn


    Texaco on the Stillorgan dual carriageway was 104.9 this morning.


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