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Fuel Prices

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  • #252
    Gael23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,124 ✭✭✭✭Gael23


    Given that around 80c a Litre is tax, it will never be below €1 again. Definately prices seem to have stopped rising and a slight fall in some places


  • #253
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70,172 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Max Power1 wrote: »
    FFS there must be money in fuel sales or they would close and just run the shop as a standalone:rolleyes:

    How many people are going to randomly pull in to a shop in the middle of nowhere on the side of a road; or a few doors down from a cheaper shop?

    Why people still seem to assume there's some huge margin on fuel is beyond me. The maths are public, there is bugger all margin and there hasn't been for years.

    Count the number of closed stations you see around, either obvious ones where there's still something left behind or ones listed on an older satnav. High profit businesses don't close down.

    Also note how few stations are left without full shops. Last one I knew of in Dublin was at a car dealers, and recently they built a shop in half the showroom...


  • #254
    Bandara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,282 ✭✭✭Bandara


    MYOB wrote: »
    How many people are going to randomly pull in to a shop in the middle of nowhere on the side of a road; or a few doors down from a cheaper shop?

    Why people still seem to assume there's some huge margin on fuel is beyond me. The maths are public, there is bugger all margin and there hasn't been for years.

    Count the number of closed stations you see around, either obvious ones where there's still something left behind or ones listed on an older satnav. High profit businesses don't close down.

    Also note how few stations are left without full shops. Last one I knew of in Dublin was at a car dealers, and recently they built a shop in half the showroom...

    thats the Daybreak shop I presume?

    Dont think its doing the business unfortuantly, lovely setup though.


  • #255
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70,172 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Hammertime wrote: »
    thats the Daybreak shop I presume?

    Dont think its doing the business unfortuantly, lovely setup though.

    Yeah. Not been in to it since it opened, mainly because I've not bought a car from them since 2005! Just see it in passing.


  • #256
    Bandara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,282 ✭✭✭Bandara


    MYOB wrote: »
    Yeah. Not been in to it since it opened, mainly because I've not bought a car from them since 2005! Just see it in passing.

    Bought my first car ever from there !

    Fiat Bravo :)


  • #257
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    prices are slowly heading south:)

    159.9 for petrol

    will it continue???


  • #258
    Owryan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,024 ✭✭✭Owryan


    157.9 in Carlow, but was in Kilkenny yesterday and saw 165.9 in a few places.


  • #259
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    fryup wrote: »
    prices are slowly heading south:)

    159.9 for petrol

    will it continue???

    Not unless the Euro regains ground against the dollar quickly, €1.75/litre is looking more likely than that it going south.


  • #260
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 23,339 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Stinicker wrote: »
    Not unless the Euro regains ground against the dollar quickly, €1.75/litre is looking more likely than that it going south.

    You seem to be one of those folks who like to see fuel prices rising so you can bitch about it, petrol is back to January/February prices now. You didn't expect that to happen back in January.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=76361900


    Where are all the" it will be €2/litre for unleaded by the Summer" brigade now ?


  • #261
    ottostreet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭ottostreet


    Owryan wrote: »
    157.9 in Carlow, but was in Kilkenny yesterday and saw 165.9 in a few places.

    Kilkenny prices are disgraceful, I've been all over most Leinster and parts of Munster over the last week, Kilkenny is higher than everywhere.


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  • #262
    Ginny
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 13,425 ✭✭✭✭Ginny


    153.9 in Ashbourne last night.


  • #263
    Jimdagym
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,844 ✭✭✭Jimdagym


    Ginny wrote: »
    153.9 in Ashbourne last night.

    For diesel? 10c more than that for petrol on Balbriggan.


  • #264
    eringobragh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,668 ✭✭✭eringobragh


    haven't seen anything less then 163.9 in Dublin so far.


  • #265
    Ginny
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 13,425 ✭✭✭✭Ginny


    Sorry, Typo was 159.8 for petrol in Ashbourne, just rechecked the receipt.


  • #266
    Mc Love
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    152.9 for Devils Juice in most parts of Limerick and Kerry


  • #267
    Seweryn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,496 ✭✭✭Seweryn


    Mc Love wrote: »
    152.9 for Devils Juice in most parts of Limerick and Kerry
    Still not quite close to figures we are looking for (i.e. €0.899 per litre), but we are going the right direction ;).


  • #268
    Jimbob 83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,032 ✭✭✭Jimbob 83


    Seweryn wrote: »
    Still not quite close to figures we are looking for (i.e. €0.899 per litre), but we are going the right direction ;).

    Who said they were looking for that?, i see it mentioned as a price afew years ago but i see nobody expecting it :pac:


  • #269
    Seweryn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,496 ✭✭✭Seweryn


    Jimbob 83 wrote: »
    Who said they were looking for that?, i see it mentioned as a price afew years ago but i see nobody expecting it :pac:
    How do you know :pac: ?


  • #270
    greenman09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,909 ✭✭✭greenman09


    Was in ardee last week and diesel was1.49. Diesel is coming down in Dublin but not at the rate it should be. The governments have not help fuel prices with their tax rises either. 90c we may never see again.


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  • #271
    Jimbob 83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,032 ✭✭✭Jimbob 83


    Seweryn wrote: »
    How do you know :pac: ?

    Fuel prices when only drop when taxes are eased again and euro gains strength against the dollar, i love the people who treat it like it's a petrol station conspiracy :p


  • #272
    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    Seweryn wrote: »
    Still not quite close to figures we are looking for (i.e. €0.899 per litre), but we are going the right direction ;).
    My households financial situation would improve vastly if it went down to €1.359 a litre. That's all I'm wishing for.


  • #273
    Seweryn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,496 ✭✭✭Seweryn


    Sobanek wrote: »
    My households financial situation would improve vastly if it went down to €1.359 a litre. That's all I'm wishing for.
    Not just yours situation ;). But you can reduce the mileage you drive to compensate, if you need to ;).


  • #274
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,027 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    filled up yesterday at 146.9 a litre. girl said they are going down again next week :D


  • #275
    snaps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,138 ✭✭✭snaps


    Reason why fuel should or is coming down is due to the price of wholesale oil tumbling.


  • #276
    Elessar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,264 ✭✭✭Elessar


    Long may it continue.

    Of course, with a potential attack on Iran only around the corner... :mad:


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  • #277
    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    Brent's been at the $105-107 level for the past couple of days, so I think unless the dollar weakens, the prices are going to stay at the same level for now.


  • #278
    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    kceire wrote: »
    filled up yesterday at 146.9 a litre. girl said they are going down again next week :D

    Derv or petrol??? Thought you sold the 530d :D


  • #279
    whiterebel
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,053 Mod ✭✭✭✭whiterebel


    ottostreet wrote: »
    Kilkenny prices are disgraceful, I've been all over most Leinster and parts of Munster over the last week, Kilkenny is higher than everywhere.

    You'd want to try Midleton, Co Cork all of 10k from the refinery. All 4 garages charge the same, €1.64 still for petrol.:mad:


  • #280
    pa990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,883 ✭✭✭pa990


    kceire wrote: »
    filled up yesterday at 146.9 a litre. girl said they are going down again next week :D

    Thats what she said
    :D


  • #281
    kingshankly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,597 ✭✭✭kingshankly


    1:46 for diesel in dundalk


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  • #282
    Kristopherus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,907 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    kingshankly wrote: »
    1:46 for diesel in dundalk

    Go figure:D


  • #283
    WallyGUFC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,054 ✭✭✭WallyGUFC


    Galway City surely the most expensive in Ireland? Mainly around 164-165, but have seen a few 167s the last few days. Had been 169 absolutely everywhere a few weeks back. Prices are always suspiciously similiar too...


  • #284
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    kingshankly wrote: »
    1:46 for diesel in dundalk

    Is it that dear now! I used to pay 1.33 for the cheap stuff about 6 months ago.


  • #285
    Vicxas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,418 ✭✭✭✭Vicxas


    148 for diesel on the N2, and 158/59 for petrol.

    Theres a guy in Navan still selling petrol for 169.9. Cowboy.


  • #286
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    kingshankly wrote: »
    1:46 for diesel in dundalk
    Kristopherus wrote: »
    Go figure:D

    slab murphy diesel??


  • #287
    kc66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭kc66


    Vicxas wrote: »
    Theres a guy in Navan still selling petrol for 169.9. Cowboy.
    Can be got on the Kells Rd for 157.9. 12c difference. Anyone that pays the high price deserves it.
    I usually fill up in Ardee, currently 159.9. Great to see it move in the right direction, currently doing a 70 mile daily commute.


  • #288
    Jude13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,842 ✭✭✭Jude13


    I am back in Ireland for four days in June, then France for 7 and driving from Cannes to Barcelona after that and back home.

    I havent been home in a long time and have not given a thought to fuel prices, think I will get the train in France so I will just be driving at home.

    Its 25 cent a litre here, heavily subsidised. The thought of paying 1.50 is nuts. I remember when people were saying there would be riots if it hit 1 euro. I also work in the Petro/Oil/Gas Industry out here and we are not increasing overheads, actually reducing them due to more efficent methods of petroleum development. Due to economic conditions worldwide and the willingness of people to move offshore or to a desert salaries have not increased or are decreasing.

    Tax and propaganda


  • #289
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    Jude13 wrote: »
    I am back in Ireland for four days in June, then France for 7 and driving from Cannes to Barcelona after that and back home.

    I havent been home in a long time and have not given a thought to fuel prices, think I will get the train in France so I will just be driving at home.

    Its 25 cent a litre here, heavily subsidised. The thought of paying 1.50 is nuts. I remember when people were saying there would be riots if it hit 1 euro. I also work in the Petro/Oil/Gas Industry out here and we are not increasing overheads, actually reducing them due to more efficent methods of petroleum development. Due to economic conditions worldwide and the willingness of people to move offshore or to a desert salaries have not increased or are decreasing.

    Tax and propaganda

    And don't forget international speculators exploiting a vulnerable market to make a few more billion through reckless gambling. Funnily enough exactly what got the global economy into a mess in the first place.
    And yet there seems to be a global acceptance that a model of trading that impoverishes billions on the supply and consumer side so that a very small handful can enrich themselves to the tune of billions, every now and then crash the world economy and be given big, nice, juicy handouts to "bail them out".
    At the moment there are billions living in poverty in the third world due to this model and we in the developed world are about to join them.
    Petrol is just one example of a completely corrupt and unsustainable model of trade that is about to ruin the planet.
    These people will do more damage to the world than WW2 and will eventually be regarded the same as the people who caused that war.
    IMO they should be arrested and executed for genocide.


  • #290
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Jude13 wrote: »
    Its 25 cent a litre here, heavily subsidised.

    And where is that? In Spain and France it's nowhere near that either by the way.


  • #291
    Max Power1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,272 ✭✭✭✭Max Power1


    smash wrote: »
    And where is that? In Spain and France it's nowhere near that either by the way.
    Probably some Arabian country. I think the likes of Bahrain/Saudi are cheaper than that though


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  • #292
    [Deleted User]
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    I think Qatar is around that.


  • #293
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    cisk wrote: »
    I think Qatar is around that.

    I was in Brunei in April and Petrol costs 30c and Diesel 20c/ litre. The cost of Petrol before tax is around 70-75c a litre.


  • #294
    shankespony
    Registered Users Posts: 278 ✭✭shankespony


    I have been out in the UAE a week and I think its 32cents a litre, the size of car engines here is unreal, diesel is like LPG virtually non existent. The amount of huge gas guzzler jeeps is unreal.


  • #295
    Seweryn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,496 ✭✭✭Seweryn


    shankespony wrote: »
    I have been out in the UAE a week and I think its 32cents a litre, the size of car engines here is unreal, diesel is like LPG virtually non existent. The amount of huge gas guzzler jeeps is unreal.
    Subsidizing fossil fuels to allow people to use it that way (as we can see in far East and by taxing it very low like in US) is the worst idea ever. IMO.


  • #296
    pa990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,883 ✭✭✭pa990


    Seweryn wrote: »
    shankespony wrote: »
    I have been out in the UAE a week and I think its 32cents a litre, the size of car engines here is unreal, diesel is like LPG virtually non existent. The amount of huge gas guzzler jeeps is unreal.
    Subsidizing fossil fuels to allow people to use it that way (as we can see in far East and by taxing it very low like in US) is the worst idea ever. IMO.


    I wouldn't disagree with low fuel tax.
    I'd be delighted if fuel was 90¢L

    And I don't believe that we could ever afford to subsidise fuel.


  • #297
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    those of you who buy cheapy diesel, here's the consequences....

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0529/toxic-diesel-sludge-found-dumped-in-co-louth.html


  • #298
    gbee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,388 ✭✭✭gbee


    Seweryn wrote: »
    Subsidizing fossil fuels to allow people to use it that way (as we can see in far East and by taxing it very low like in US) is the worst idea ever. IMO.

    The thing is, taxing it as all makes no difference to the world stocks. building your economy on taxing fuel is a hiding to nowhere very quickly.

    We [the motorist at the pumps] could be buying fuel at approx 50C per litre and everybody would still be getting a huge cut out of it. Taxes should be a percentage of and not be hundreds of percent of the selling price; we are carrying some 300% taxes on fuel.

    A whole review needs to be undertaken, we could be driving vehicles that would return in excess of 300 miles per gallon, but other legislation, mostly safety legislation undoes this potential as does 'traffic' management, speed bumps, traffic lights, toll plazas and then we have cityscapes, urban dormitories, Industrial parks, retail parks, commercial parks, clamping at urban railway stations, urban railways running through the countryside and so on and on and on.


  • #299
    mcwhirter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,432 ✭✭✭mcwhirter


    RoverJames wrote: »
    You seem to be one of those folks who like to see fuel prices rising so you can bitch about it, petrol is back to January/February prices now. You didn't expect that to happen back in January.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=76361900


    Where are all the" it will be €2/litre for unleaded by the Summer" brigade now ?

    the prices are 'mysteriously' dropping due to referendum vote this week. Also haven't seen many speed camera vans for a while.


  • #300
    kc66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭kc66


    mcwhirter wrote: »
    the prices are 'mysteriously' dropping due to referendum vote this week. Also haven't seen many speed camera vans for a while.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=576


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  • #301
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    The one conspiracy that intrigues me is the one why fuel prices rocket up at the forecourt as soon as there is a hint of a rumor that oil might possibly go up at some stage in the future and take weeks or months to come down once oil has gone down.
    Mystery seems to be solved, they where robbing us!

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/government-issues-price-warning-to-petrol-companies-7803661.html

    So soon enough this will be one of things that was "impossible and too difficult" to implement that suddenly becomes all to possible and easy to do once the relevant legislation is introduced.


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