How long until we see €2 a litre and will it push more to EV's faster?

2.08 in two garages around here

ffs

The economy is more dependent on the car than people realise. Without the car the tourism industry is finished. Most businesses are dependent on the car to transport their workers. It’s not possible for public transport to replace a large proportion of this. Most weekend activities and non essential shopping will be finished without the car meaning the collapse of more industries. Without the car Ireland will become an economic wasteland.

For diesel or petrol?

I drove past an Emo pumps in Straffan this morning where the price of petrol was €2.289/litre. I think diesel was €2.159/Ltre.

Petrol

Thankfully the refining price has started to drop back a little, but its only a couple of days, so no trend yet. This decrease though is being eaten up by a jump in oil prices

https://www.neste.com/investors/market-data/oil-product-margins#ca9fd67b

Crazy to think that this time last year refining cost was $9 for petrol and $7 for diesel, oil price was $72 and dollar was $1.21

So in euro terms a litre of fuel from refinery has gone from 41c to 1.03

I seen a thing last night where you can buy a litre in Libya for 3 cents.

Then I’d think You’re getting away lightly

Agree though it’s still bloody expensive whichever figure You look at.

Where did I ever mention removing all taxes? Why are you misrepresenting my posts?

I just took issue with your comment that people who live outside large urban areas do so by choice.

To upend your whole family, move house to a city (not possible for many due to the price difference) just because of the price of fuel is not a realistic choice for many. If everyone started doing that their would be nowhere to house them in the cities.

Anyway this is probably dragging the thread off topic so lets just agree to disagree on this one.

Ireland has for many generations had people living on the land. Mainly due to a culture and history of subsistence land subdivision over primogeniture seen in other countries. It is who we are and to rail against it would be to deny a large part of who we are. Urban dwellers are wont to complain about bungalow blight when on one of their weekends around the hinterland. But the proliferation of isolated houses that is their bane, is reassurance to those who live there; having a real neighbour nearby who looks out for you, instead of someone who lives 4 doors 20m away from you who you've never said more than hello to. People born in the countryside do not see it as their 'choice' to live in the country side. It's natural to want to continue living close to family and friends and for many it is economically unfeasible to relocate. A lot of people have in recent years relocated from Dublin to satellite towns dues to the housing crisis in Dublin. This has been supported by the government with legislative support for remote working and increased spending on public transport among other measures.

We now have an impending transport crisis and those who will be hardest hit will be the rural population, many of whom have jobs tied to a specific location. This can be hard to understand for those in the major urban centres, more of whom have desk-based jobs and are less affected. It would be disappointing if other Irish, less affected by the fuel crisis adopted an "I'm alright jack" attitude to those who now find themselves in an unprecedented situation, not of their making. We should not turn our backs on our own.

It kinda hard for people outside the capital not to feel short changed when they are talking about 10billion for Dublin metro extensions and 250million already spent just thinking about it.

“Talking about” - you’ve just summed it up right there