Well said that man …pmsl!

The sooner you realise fossil fuels are a finite resource the better.

Although if you spend the same money and the idiots give you less petrol………who is ahead?

Good man paddy , il fill the car up on hopes and dreams so..

Oh gosh Paddy i didn’t know that.

I guess i should run out and buy an electric car or something like that!

Oh….wait…I can’t.

Show me another option that performs better then current transport, financially viable, does not run on fossil fuel and i will gladly take it.

Sounds familiar

Just try something less sensational, like a news from real journalists. Independent, Irish Times… ever RTE…

Daniel Dudek Corrigan, yet here you are reading and commenting on the website,….

Atleast when I say the daily mail is shite I don’t read it and I certainly don’t go to their website and comment on it,

Secretly its clear you actually like thejournal.ie

There is that word again senstionalist, “Irish petrol prices are high”.. oh thejournal is so naughty! Sensationalist stuff. You even said over 1.70 a litre, bold jouno’s.

Well said, Andy!

That’s why i decided to live in a small house in a town with a bus service, train service, shops, pubs and other amenities within walking distance.

No one elses fault you live in the arsehole of nowwhere and as you are finding out now to your cost there are concequences.

Well done gavin, I might move to a small town with a train and other amenities, but i would be 40 km away from my job then. Doesn’t work for everyone,.

Very lucky to have access to buses, luas etc.. Its not an option for many of us :-(

Would be great to have that option but the government seem to forget that theres a Northside to Dublin City, they give the Southside all the public transport needs

She’s not worried about your blood pressure,its the petrol your using to get there she’s worried about.:-)

I’ve traded down my 2.0 litre van to a more manageable 1.5 but that was more to do with the timing belt snapping…. but the mechanic who offered to buy it off me offered a pittance saying that although it could be fixed he’d have a hard time selling it on because it’s a well known “gas guzzler” and new tax rules where it has to be taxed privately would put anyone off buying it

Yeah but taxes haven’t.

With increasing fuel prices I have noticed a different smell when driving behind other cars.
It’s the smell of airport.
To be more precise. It is the smell of Kerosine.
Used for homeheating and aviation fuel.
Many diesel car owners are now resorting to homeheating oil which is Kerosine.
Apparently much cheaper to run on than diesel at the pumps.
Don’t try this at home though without knowledge of diesel engines.
HAPPY MOTORING from Stray Mutt.

Ah indeed it has! But the cost of having Fine Gael and Labour in government has gone up!

Expensive petrol?
Sure what do we expect when we are one of the richest countries in the world.
(Well that’s what it said in the papers a while back)

“Comparing Ireland’s tax structure with other countries, the country already has among the highest marginal rates of direct (income) and indirect (VAT) tax in the world. ”
Ronan Lyons 27/08/12

Jaysus Stray….they’ll be serving duty free in the back seats of every Ford, Toyota and VW in the country next..:)

?85 to fill my tank. 440miles to empty. 1.5ltr

I also pay a certain amount of euros for litres of petrol to drive a number of miles.
Sorry but I just don’t have the stats to hand.

Changed my petrol mondeo for a diesel mondeo, fuel consumption has gone from 30mpg to 49.8mpg. Borrowed 5k to upgrade the car over 3 years but the fuel savings are more than covering the loan repayments. Anyone with a large petrol car and access to a few quid should do the same

I along with a few friends all think that we get less MPG with this low sulphur diesel. I’m sure it’s not my imagination. No decrease in pump price though. Do others find this?

something wrong with your car Jason Bourne. You driving it like your name sake or something?

Mine’s a 1.3 and I get about 400km from 55 litres. My record is 158km from a tank. Beat that! :D

My best is 550 km on a 65 litre tank costing almost €100 in a commercial jeep. If there’s a good bit of weight on board or i’m towing the trailer that can go down to 400 km for a tankfull.

A carbon tax is a necessary evil, it’s a way to encouraging people to drive more energy efficient vehicles or use public transport if possible…future generations I hope will benefit from it, climate change is the biggest problem we face unless we drastically change our ways. People would still drive huge jeeps around town if fuel was cheap.

@David, I think your comment is bullshite…. Didnt they introduce the new car tax system based on lower co2 emissions…. It was a con lots of people bought new cars for the simple reason of lower tax rate and now u will see that these rates will explode upwards in the next budget. They just want the generate more tax, which will go straight out of this country to pay those bloody bond holders…. Wake up….

@mojorise. Con or not, driving a car thats more efficient (cheaper to run and more environmentally friendly) is a good thing. Carbon tax by definition is indented to reduce the emissions of carbon dioxide by reducing the use of fossil fuels.. Educate yourself like a good lad, try “sustainable development” as a good starting point

David. I’d love to drive a smaller more fuel efficient car but there is this legal requirement that I have to have these bloody great car seats for children and the only car I could get to fit in the mandatory bloody great car seats for children was a 7 seater. One child old enough to go into a booster seat now but the gas guzzling car is worthless as a trade in and I can’t afford to pay much for a ‘new’ car as I’m too busy paying a grand a year in tax and 70 a week in petrol for car that I had no choice in getting if I didn’t want to break the law.

Yeah 4 and a half years I have my car. Cost me ?50 to fill it in 2008. Now it’s usually around ?85!!!

True Daniel, but I can guarantee that the rich countries we’re cheaper than don’t have such penal VRT and motor tax rates. They probably have decent secondary roads too.

Whats your plan Mark? Truth is our fuel prices are comparable or less than most similar economies. The same discussion is had in UK, France, Spain etc… How do we get out of the recession Mark?? Please enlighten me?

No interest in trading blows Cotter. The Situation is only getting worse. Taxes on top of taxes is not the way to safeguard a countries future. I would hope you know that.

if you can manage to trade your petrol car in for a diesel! and i ain’t got a clue where you can buy bottled methane and a convertor for a petrol car round here!!

P.S If i remember correctly they put a tax on cooking oil not so long ago because people were walking into their supermarket bying the oil and filling their cars in the car park em whats to stop the government just uping that tax?? Its all just a rip off and the reason why an alternative hasn’t come out in full force is exactly that “extortion” and if we all had electric cars the same tax would be put on our esb bills so whats the point! Capitalism gone freaking mad!!

Obviously when it comes to this sort of innovation you won’t be at the forefront of it, Mr Higgins.

I’m all for better ways of doing things Damocles in fact renewables are the way to go but if the governments are not making money on our current fuels they will tax us on whatever comes next! So don’t think i’m shouting down alternatives! There has been plenty of studies done into methane but to power individual cars is not the way to go but having generators at the source of the methane generating power for the grid is the way to go but doesn’t solve our problem of over priced fuel at the min!

OK …

and the action required is…?

My dad did that way back in the 70′s and it was very cheap, don’t know why we don’t have more LPG stations, loads of them over the border, it’s cheaper and cleaner than diesel and petrol!

LPG no longer cheaper to counter the costs of conversion here!!

Yeah it’s expensive in Italy alright, but I went to maranchello during the summer to visit the Ferrari factory, and the AGIP station next door was the cheapest I found throughout my week long tour of northern Italy!