cheap petrol in/around Galway?

rocky

What's a cheaper petrol station around Galway, anyone know.

rocky

anyone?

Seth Brundle

check out www.irishfuelprices.com

edit: also don't be so impatient on a friday night!

rocky

sorry

As for the site, not too many documented for Galway, I would have thought they are a bit smaller than that

Edit: just wondering where people fuel in Galway? I remember talks abot 1 euro/litre at Tesco...

CrowdedHouse

105.9 last night in Derrydonnell, 3c cheaper than my home place

mike65

Drive to Waterford for cheap fuel - Tesco 97.9 unleaded 95.9 for derv. I've seen as high as 113 in the last few days.

Mike.

Seth Brundle

113 pfft thats nothing!
Statoil on Dublin's quays is up to 139.9 IIRC

slickmcvic

Its funny that in and around Galway city prices change in all the stations at exactly the same time to exactly the same price...i mean if it was just all the statoils that chage that'd be fair enough but the other brands seem to do it together almost in sync.....One might say it smacks of a (dare i say it!!) "cartel".....
Any ways derrydonnell seems to be decent and sometimes texaco in oranmore can be below the cities fixed price

mike65

kbannon wrote:

113 pfft thats nothing!
Statoil on Dublin's quays is up to 139.9 IIRC

That place is out on its own, nowhere else comes close as far as I know.

Miek.

Seth Brundle

mike65 wrote:

That place is out on its own, nowhere else comes close as far as I know.

Thankfully!

mike65 wrote:

Miek.

Changed your name?

netwhizkid

kbannon wrote:

113 pfft thats nothing!
Statoil on Dublin's quays is up to 139.9 IIRC

Would this be the same statoil tat fills up the state cars; gardai, customs etc? I wonder how many brown envelopes exchanged hands with a member of Fianna Fail for that contract to be approved.

kbannon

kbannon wrote:

113 pfft thats nothing!
Statoil on Dublin's quays is up to 139.9 IIRC

What are they selling... rocket fuel!:rolleyes:

or are they trying to fleece unwary visitors off the ferry.:(

Altreab

slickmcvic wrote:

Its funny that in and around Galway city prices change in all the stations at exactly the same time to exactly the same price...i mean if it was just all the statoils that chage that'd be fair enough but the other brands seem to do it together almost in sync.....One might say it smacks of a (dare i say it!!) "cartel".....
Any ways derrydonnell seems to be decent and sometimes texaco in oranmore can be below the cities fixed price

Well not exactly the same price ....hust a consistant 0.1 cent per litre differance oh and yes that word "cartel" does come to mind.

Another thing and this is Nationwide and was the same for ALL suppliers of fuel...... Why was it always a consistant 5-6 PENCE differance between a litre of Petrol and Diesel (this changed to about 7-8 cent after the euro changeover) ...... then about 3 years ago when the latest round of massive price increases happened the price of diesel went up to within 2 cent of the price of petrol. It hasnt changed since then.
Now when there was a large differance in price in the Pre euro age companies always said it was because it was a lot cheaper to refine diesel and there was less duty on Diesel. (Both True)
Nothing has changed in either but the prices are nearly identical. Duty on Diesel is about 5cent a litre LESS than on petrol.
This was about the time that diesel engines started talking a much bigger share of the car market.
IMHO its straight forward price gouging. The oil companies want to make diesel here more expensive than petrol (as in the UK) so as to be able to continue ripping people off into the future.
Does anyone Know if the Competition authority has looked into this?

Robbo

Back on topic, Grealish's at Carnmore Cross usually tops the list for cheap petrol when the Tribune do one of their surveys. Nearer town, I've always found Maxol in Whitestrand (lower Salthill) to be one of the cheapest around town.

rocky

didn't get to Carnmore, but all the petrol stations in Galway were 109.9 minimum for unleaded, there was a 'Top' on the Galway to Headford road that had unleaded for 107.9.

So is Tesco only in Waterford?

nebra

htp://irishfuelprices.com is a great place for that sort of info, heating oil too, but yeah Grealishes in Carnmore is never too far off the mark & howleys in gort is always on the ball, if you are out that side..

Neb

Jocksy

Its well known that there is a cartel in Galway regarding fuel. I just fill up when I go home in the East where its 10c cheaper.

daveg

For those who use Diesel I fill up in the shell accross the road from Monaghan's. Behind Rocka tiles. All the big trucks fill up there and it's always the cheapest round town.

Altreab

daveg wrote:

For those who use Diesel I fill up in the shell accross the road from Monaghan's. Behind Rocka tiles. All the big trucks fill up there and it's always the cheapest round town.

FECK i had forgotten about that place!! How much are they charging now?

rocky

Grealish in Carnmore were 109.9 today... yeah, like most every other petrol station in Galway. Shell on Galway to Carnmore road was 1c cheaper, and there was a TOP on the Galway-Barna road 1c cheaper again, at 107.9

Esel

Rather than driving out of your way to save 1c per litre, a much better way to economise is to modify your driving style.

Plan your journeys - 'kill ' two or more birds wwith the same 'stone' when you can. Avoid needless acceleration/braking; anticipate road/traffic conditions; switch off your engine when stopped for more than 30 seconds (at traffic lights, in jams); feather the throttle; get into high gear early; drive off immediately after starting a cold engine etc etc.

patsyh

esel wrote:

switch off your engine when stopped for more than 30 seconds (at traffic lights, in jams);

rocky

esel wrote:

Rather than driving out of your way to save 1c per litre, a much better way to economise is to modify your driving style.

Plan your journeys - 'kill ' two or more birds wwith the same 'stone' when you can. Avoid needless acceleration/braking; anticipate road/traffic conditions; switch off your engine when stopped for more than 30 seconds (at traffic lights, in jams); feather the throttle; get into high gear early; drive off immediately after starting a cold engine etc etc.

I'm not going 30 km just to get gas that's 1c cheaper
I read here on this board that underevving may increase mpg.

what's this about driving off with a cold engine?

Esel

rocky wrote:

what's this about driving off with a cold engine?

With the choke on, higher concentration of petrol in the mix washes lubrication away. Driving circulates more oil to counteract this.