Are the few 999.9 entries included in the average price calculation for diesel and petrol? These are sometimes used to indicate that a station doesn't sell a particular type of fuel. They feature in the detailed graphs of the average prices on the statistics page.  The average prices quoted on the site seem a tad high to me and these entries could be skewing them higher than they should be?

why are esso stations refusing to take esso fuel cards , been to two esso stations ,one in bagenalstown on sunday and one in mullingar a few days earlier which refused to accept the esso fuel cards

Over the past 6 months and also in the near furture, brent oil prices have remained very stable and mostly within a $5 deviance from $110.  This has been one of the most stable period for oil prices for many years, yet in the past 6-8 weeks the forecourt prices have risen by 10c-12c.

But before blaming the hardpressed forecourt owners who take an average of just 5c cut of the €1.55 average we are currently paying lets see what has happened since October.

1. The Budget. - Added 1.4c petrol / 1.6c diesel to carbon tax on Dec 6th, it also added 2% vat on Jan 1st. - Total extra taxes approx 4.5c / litre

2. US Dollar / Euro. All through the summer and up til October, the average exchange rate was about $1.43 / €1. Yesterday it dropped below 1.27 - that's an 11% difference in just 3 months and a good chunk of the drop was from end of November. Fuel is bought in US dollars, so this added 11% to the ex tax price of fuel (approx 60c unleaded / 62c diesel) - about 6.5c + of course vat @23% making 8c.

So 8c of the recent increases are attributed to currency moves and 4.5c due to tax hikes - makes a total of 12.5c increase from the October averages of 1.43 & 1.45.

And with oil prices still stable and not looking to move much in the near term, the only potential change in prices will come from the exchange rate between the US dollar & the Euro. In the short term, this may bring some relief, but most commentators are suggesting mid 1.20's as the exchange rate in the medium term.    

TOP Station on Usher's Quay, Dublin had petrol on sale today at 99.9c per litre.  Looked too good to be true but I went and had a look anyway.  Got there about 3pm to see hoarding being put up.  Looks like they are closing down.  Some time ago they were found to be giving short measure. I wonder if they have been compulsorily closed. Anyone know the story?

With the price of diesel what it is i was wondering if anyone can answer these questions for me?

1. Roughly how complex (rough price) is it to convert a diesel engine to biofuel?

2. Who sells biofuel and roughly what is the price per litre?

3. Has anyone done this and what was there experience?

so sick of these prices rises, topaz roscrea 6 rises in 8 days.....rip off.

the gov. needs to do something about there big tax take on fuel quick otherwise lots of jobs will be lost.

come on they raise vat and petrol at the same time, shops have to add it on some where so we pay more at the pumps, more in the shops, pay more taxes if your on the dole u get less money, the banks aint passing on interest rates cuts all the time so ur morg. is still huge, ur boss has reduced ur wages also and if you live in a concil house ur rent will go up.........

am confused, lots of people were saying this budget wasnt that bad.

venting again

Hey

Hoping you can explain the latest Android app permissions change? There shouldn't be any need for the app to know details about the phone.

Specifically the "Read phone state and identity" option.

R

Hey Edwin,

Do you have a complete list of functionality for the Android app available ? The pumps.ie home page refers to a few functions and "much, much more", but that doesn't appear to be quantified either here or on the Android Market forum.

I've read a few posters who've refered to their inability to uninstall the app - is it possible or not ? As useful as the app may be, I really don't want to install one that I can't remove.

TIA,

Qomi.

Prices still relatively stable. Difference between Brent & WTI (US) oil is down to $10 (was at $25), so forecasting prices is a little easier. US prices seem to have difficulty at the $100 level which bodes well for continued stability in prices.

The weakening of the euro though is feeding into pumps with small rises of 1c - 2c noticeable. Expect average price for both diesel & unleaded to be about 1.48 - 1.50.

It will be interesting to see whether the budget adds anything to fuel - personally I don't think it will as it will increase use of washed fuel and the 2% vat increase will add 3c per litre anyway.

Is there a function on the Android App to allow you to enter fill up details?

Many, many years ago (we're talking about 2-odd decades ago) the forecourts placed the diesel price above the unleaded price on their main display sign - because diesel was cheaper than unleaded. And since our eyes are drawn to the top of the sign it was a "sly" i.e. marketing, way of attracting attention.

Probably would have been around the time that leaded petrol was being phased out and the forecourt sellers were upgrading their signs.

Anyway, I wonder will they now alter their signs if the price of diesel remains higher than unleaded?  I know some may say that it's a temporary blip, that's it's winter and all that but it's very mild - and I'm not just talking in Ireland, across the globe it's comparatively mild. There's no major wars or upsets or global catastrophes - political crisis in Europe excepted, but diesel has been creeping up steadily in price for a good while now, and finally has done the unthinkable (for me as a diesel car owner) gone higher than unleaded.

So, back to the point, whatcha think? Think the forecourt owners will shift the arrangement of the prices on their signs (for those  of them who can - Maxol have gotten those funky LED ones but the unleaded and diesel is permanently written in place)?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oil_Prices_1861_2007.svg

This is from wiki and shows the oil price since ~1900 in 2008 dollars, notice how we now sit at a level simular to 1973 during the "great oil crisis". so even when the "euro crisis" is fixed(?) we will then be faced by an oil price crisis... anyone have a bicycle for sale? :-)

Hi all some petrol stations have carwashes plus they do not show the carwash!!!

diesel and petrol at same price of 146.8 cent per litre in applegreen naas.  whats the story

N&R Independent fuels on Collins Ave, Dublin 9 are closed and no longer selling Diesel. The N&R Independent fuels garage in Clarehall is also closed. I tried to update the operational status of the garage but unable to do so.

The following station is no longer open

http://pumps.ie/viewStation.php?stationID=1589

The following station is no longer open

http://pumps.ie/viewStation.php?stationID=1589

Brent oil prices have remained relatively stable over the past few weeks. Also the difference between the lower quality US oil and Brent has become smaller.

We don't see any particular event that will cause any changes in the current price range, so its really as is for the time being with the bias still being towards slight lowering of prices. 

Diesel has risen recently as demand for diesel fuel always increases in the winter and the refinery changes its charges to reflect that.  

Apologies for using this public forum; not getting any joy out of the direct contact form!

I run a public transport & carsharing website, http://getthere.ie/ which is currently getting a lot more carshare requests than offers.

I'd like to get these requests in front of drivers and thought pumps.ie would be a great place to do it.

Would anyone here be willing to carshare to potentially halve their petrol costs?

Thanks!

Eoghan

pumps.ie operators can contact me at eoghan@getthere.ie