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

For someone driving 20,000km per year and averaging 7L/100km, a 30 cent fuel increase is only an extra €8 per week.

I've done 21,000km in the work van since the end of November lol...

Depends on how long it lasts for you, now that Mr Taco is back in charge, your next fill might be under that last purchase price.

6 weeks. Some reasons are very legit - lots of more expensive product has already been bought by wholesalers/retailers.

Some places will have to eat losses on current product to shift it cause they'll get undercut by other places with less stock. But they probably made a packet already.

There should at least be a few test turbines in the Atlantic the last 5 years to see how they actually fare.

The government are mad for licencing off sectors with fancy names along with slideshows of how it's all going to work and create jobs in coastal areas.

But not a single asset has been proven yet.

Yep. What was to have been the first on the west coast was a cockup, Sceirde Rocks, the most basic of desktop studies, with freely available public domain data and just a bit of cop on would have shown it was a dead end, not remotely feasible.

The state and lots of civil servants played blind/deaf to common sense. Many civil servant's rode that gravy train for years until the plug was pulled last year.

East coast offshore wind, yes.

Current South coast planned fixed bottom like Tonn Nua, water depth 48–69 m is anything but straightforward. It exceeds the deepest built to date, Seagreen, some of it is beyond industry accepted maximum depth, by developers with little experience in offshore construction, let alone in the Atlantic, Winter significant wave height: 6–10 m, Atlantic Swell, working weather windows will be short and limited to summer months. Horrible geology for piling jackets or trenching cable too.

If can be done will be years overdue and the cost will be astronomical.

Sure ESB couldn't even get their preliminary surveys done for their North coast floating windfarm.

Attitude seems to be, just keep thinking happy thoughts. Sure what could go wrong?

The station owners were putting up the prices every few minutes over the weekend as oil headed to $120.

Has anyone seen any price changes today now that the price per barrel has fallen back below $90?

Not a hope!! Prices rise like rockets and fall like feathers… will take a lot longer to see any reductions in pump prices.

Huge release of oil reserves announced today from 32 countries. Should help stabilise the market for a while and ease the shortage.

Enough to supply global demand for four days, sorted.

With progress comes higher energy consumption