VAT and the addition of Carbon Tax on fuel are not helping the situation either.

Its 166.9 in at least 2 station fairly close to me.
Dont mind the end of the year, it’ll be €2 a litre by June at this rate.
Something is seriously going to have to happen.

it’s a joke… it’s costing me around €150 per week and that’s only going down country once a week…. petrol just keeps rising 5¢ in 2 days alone

Its not just the price of fuel. It will increase the cost of basic’s. Everything get’s transported on the back of a truck and they do about 4.5 miles to the gallon. This time last year a truck would have cost approx €5 a mile to run and now its just over €7 a mile. Watch your shopping bills in the next few months.

Wages going down & cost of living going up and up and up with extra taxes and waters charges and bin charges etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc …but yet our economy is going “take off like a rocket” so says our “goverment”…………….. WHAT A BUNCH OF IDIOTS!

Seriously thinking selling my car and getting a bike, costing me €60 a week at least :-(

I recently bought a car and, even at the current exorbitant cost of petrol travelling to work still costs less than half of what it would if I were to rely completely on what passes for public transport in Cork. I live 25km+ from where i work and currently spend about €100 per month on petrol. It takes 30/35 mins door to door.

Same journey on public transport:
First of all, it’s a 25 minute walk to the nearest bus stop. Bus, at a cost of €1.70 takes me as far as Cork City. Get off in town. Wait for infrequent, rural bus which passes my office. €3.30 one-way. Takes about 90 mins all told and costs a total of €5.
Do that twice a day: it’s €10 and three hours on buses. €50 per week. €200 per month. 120 hours on buses.
Or I can get in my car and land half an hour later and a fraction of the cost. It’s obvious which option am I going to pick.

The government should be ashamed of the poor choices that Irish people are left with. Compared to our European neighbours, the infrastructure and planning here is absolute rubbish.

This article mentions Iran, arab spring and the middle east as main reasons for the rise in crude prices. I just wonder have speculators and banks anything to do with it. Between the federal reserve and the ECB the banking institutions have had access to cheap money for months. They are certainly not lending, neither in Europe nor the US. They are certainly not holding it in a vault. Commodities are a good safe bet. This possible scenario applies to many other commodities in the market. Most of the western economy is in recession or crawling out of it slowly. Demand at a consumer level is not there to justify the rises. Basic econ tells me that something is not correct with this picture. The top 1% are kicking our ass again. The rich continue to get richer on the backs of the regular citizen. Is there no morality in this world. GREED!!!!!!!! Could it be possible that these corporate monsters have switched from property to basic human necessities to make their profits? I believe it is very possible!!

I’m living in the middle east at the moment I can put 30 liters of petrol in my car for the equivalent of 6 euro no taxman over here.

Wait till the carbon tax drops onto the cost in May! Looking at 1.70 very very shortly

Martin, people cannot just change to electric cars. these are only available new and finance is difficult to access or afford. For most driving less is the only way to deal with this. Electricity costs will also go up as Ireland generates a lot from burning oil.

Govt won’t reduce any taxes on fuels they know that they are essential to the everyday lives of people all over the country for transport heating etc. The revenues they take in are huge and they can disguise their increases behind the rising cost of oil internationally… Bottom line with this Govt is the working man pays and the Govt plays…!!!

Most of that is tax and Government are not helping by putting up the tax on cars etc in the last budget. A car is probably the only Luxury that a lot of people have left. A car is essential for people who live out the country and might have no access to a bus service. We are aware that the cause of the increase in Petrol is a issue beyond our control with the situation in the Middle east and especially the stand-off with Iran. However the Government could help the situation by scrapping the extra car tax they introduced in the last Budget and maybe taking 2 cents of the tax that Government gets from Petrol.Theses days a car is more of an essential than a luxury.

I’ve given up on driving. Between tests, the cost of fuel, tax and insurance, it’s just not worthwhile. Thankfully it’s not entirely essential to me but for those who it’s necessary it’s now a financial burden.

This is just a complete joke we need to start standing up for ourselves here like the household charge..
This will also put people of buying cars too its a complete rip-off..

I have looked ag my whole car driving habits and cut down consdierbly . by using a bike or my feet as much as possible j have cut down my petrol consumption by half and have lost a stone as well :-) I reckon if people actually sit down and plan properly it can be done .. petrol folks is only going one way and that is up .

87% of it is tax…the government need to cop the fu.ck on! This is just getting stupid now!

I understand that we rely on oil for pretty much everything in our lives. But reducing the price or looking for more is only postponing the inevitable.

We aren’t reducing our dependency on it fast enough. Less money should be spent on getting oil and more money on renewable energy.

1.61 is the average? cheapest iv seen is 1.62 (and you can round that up to 1.63 with the .9 decimal at the end!)

However there is one more little consideration regarding Irish fuel prices. For example in Poland equivalent to Irish Motor Tax is incorporated into petrol cost. Petrol cost basically includes motor tax. In Ireland this is separate tax and is shockingly high for any car over 2 litre engine. So not enough they get more money as such car sees the pump station more often yet they rob you with very high annual motor tax.

It’s alright using publics transport in major cities and towns but in the back ass of Donegal the buses run rarely, are pretty damn dear, and you still have to get to one of the stops in the first place. Aside from that not a train anywhere near. It’s a joke.

Oil is rocketing up people and it will hit 200 dollars a barrel in the next 5 years.

Think of it this way, we are in the greatest global slowdown in 70 years and yet oil is about 130 dollars a barrel. During the boom years of a decade ago, it was 40-50 dollars. If that does not tell you that demand is severely outstripping supply then nothing will.

Drive less, drive smart, share journeys and free wheel down them god damn hills. ;)

dont u worry people, prices will be over the €2 mark at the end of summer and no matter what u do it will be rising… do u think the goverment really give a damn about anyone in this country? all they care about is them selfs and their bank balances. and the big boys in the E.U. say how much u have to pay. after all if they say jump Ireland jumps…

Monthly I spend about €350 on petrol for my car. The cars consumption is modest to decent and I travel 2 hours in total per day 5 days per week. I looked into electric cars and without trade in and the slim possibility of getting hire purchase it would cost €700 per month in repayments. The car would have the range I need but I would need to trade in a car with a resale value of €10k to bring the repayment value to anything closely to making a break even with my current running costs never mind recharging costs. It’s up to the government to reduce excise and duty on fuel to keep inflation in hand and not increase our cost of living. Will my bank listen to my request to reduce my repayments because my monthly fuel costs have increased by €50??

It’s gone beyond a joke. It’s costing twice a much to fill a small car. The gov don’t give a damn as there petrol costs are covered by expenses. For 1.62 a litre the gov are getting at least 1.10 euro in tax revenue. The average middle earner is been screwed. What’s the point in working. I live in the country so no public transport. So have no choice but to drive.

I was naive enough to think that the finding of oil off the coast of Cork would decrease our reliance on the Middle East, increase the oil supply and decrease oil prices .. At least thats what macro economics 101 taught me …

Live in the country, no public transport roads in poor condition. Daily round trip to work is 65km costing €10 in petrol.

That’s nearly double what it was three years ago but sure they don’t care about joe soap. In the budget and tax credits they don’t factor this madness in

Petrol and Diesel prices in Ireland are bang on in the middle of EU prices. There are couple slightly cheaper countries and about same number deerer when it comes to petrol. Deerer would be for example Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, France… No great differences there but just a bit. And then consider wages – Ireland would not be in the middle I think but rather still towards top. So sadly, but don’t expect major moves from the government here…

The govt is ripping us off because VAT increases as the price of fuel increases, they could easily stop that practice.
Varadkar said: “The Vat is 23 per cent but the evidence is that as people spend more on petrol or diesel so they spend less on other things. It is not the way people think it is. It is a crude comparison but people may spend less on clothes to spend more on fuel so there is actually no gain in terms of tax”.

So now, tell me this is the kind of twat we need running our country.

The government will only listen to the germans and the banks, lets make sure they listen to the people , we have a vote on the way re . the fiscal treaty and we will have to make a point. The other way we can make a point is not to register or pay the property tax, a tax been brought in to pay for something we are already paying for in taxes.

Properly won’t happen however, mass boycott of the pumps for a day how much would petrol chemical companies lose on one day. As I said easier said than done but I’d avoid the pumps for one day so they could feel the pinch instead of me for once.

These taxes are driven by a green ideology in regard to saving the planet, and used as stealth taxes by the Irish government to increase revenue. Its this green agenda that has made clowns of the Irish people and has tricked us into to thinking that all countries are keen to follow green polices in regard to the use of fossil fuels. We have to open our eyes and look at the rising sun economies like china and India where they continue to pull coal from the earth at a rapid rate to meet their energy needs. This has resulted in numerous power stations being built in recent years. In the case of India, the rise in the use of the car has also resulted in a demand for oil/petrol. The governments of these two countries have wisely put their people and present day situation first.. The hard fact is, that the world and the countries in it act in anarchical way when it comes to energy security. Our Government would also be wise to follow suit, and the first step would be to reduce the taxes on motor fuel which would not only benefit the motorist but also benefit the wider community economically by driving cost down.

Andy Matthews

it’s time to start transporting trailer loads of “bales of hay” from Saudi to Ireland…. just like the old days…. belfast to the south!

It is very expensive, but Ireland isn’t alone. Prices £1.46+ in the UK (€1.75) a litre.

But when compared to the price in the 80s and 90s it isn’t so expensive compared to our earning power.

I reckon the government are feeling right fecking eejits after selling off Irish gas and oil rights for less than the price of good car
Ya don’t hear them bring that subject up to often!
Norway must be laughing there rocks off.

Go wan you good thing joey, but I would keep my head down if I was you, especially in Saudi, because people have been known to loose theirs most fridays

The cheek of those Arabs…Just what exactly is our oil doing under their soil anyway. High oil prices may just be a new reality, we have to adapt our cities, towns and livelihoods to this new world order.

I don’t drive… But I fly a lot and it’s stinging me bad alright up 17.3% this year because of oil prices and when you were blowing €4k a year in plane tickets thats an extra thousand euro to ‘find’ but there’s always alternatives. Don’t these people paying €150 a week know they could have a bus/ train pass for €20-40?

And for the record high energy prices may just be end results of short sighted protests against fracking, windmill landslides, gas pipelines or nuclear power…

http://www.aaireland.ie/AA/Motoring-advice/Petrol-Prices.aspx

European price comparison table.

petrol is only €0.11 per litre in Saudi Arabia. Very very cheap to live here

Why dont we just use electric cars???

Here comes a bus…