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    #2
    Mena
    Registered Users Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Mena


    Why is it a disgrace? They're there to make a profit. Besides, most of the cost of petrol here is in taxes is it not?


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    High&Low
    Closed Accounts Posts: 323 ✭✭High&Low


    prendy wrote: »
    http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30400-1303321,00.html

    from sky news....
    shell announce profits of nearly 14bn.

    that is crazy with the price we pay at the pumps.
    i actually was annoyed reading this.

    Do you get annoyed when AIB/Bank of Ireland, Tesco, FIAT, etc etc etc announce their profits (which are generally in the Billions) for the year?

    Shell are one of the biggest companies in the world...


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    Anan1
    Registered Users Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    So don't buy Shell. If you need any more convincing, do a little research on their human rights record.


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    itarumaa
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    prendy wrote: »
    http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30400-1303321,00.html

    from sky news....
    shell announce profits of nearly 14bn.

    that is crazy with the price we pay at the pumps.
    i actually was annoyed reading this.

    The funny thing is that I find prices in here quite cheap:)

    My old hometown has average price 1.384 E / litre :(

    Even compared to whole Europe petrol prices are not so bad in Ireland.


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    woodseb
    Registered Users Posts: 876 ✭✭✭woodseb


    prendy wrote: »
    http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30400-1303321,00.html

    from sky news....
    shell announce profits of nearly 14bn.

    that is crazy with the price we pay at the pumps.
    i actually was annoyed reading this.

    if it annoys you so much why don't you buy shares in the company?


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    craichoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,706 ✭✭✭craichoe


    Yeh, petrol in Ireland is DIRT cheap compared to Holland

    1.52 a litre in a local shell station here for petrol
    1.21 for Diesel


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    DublinDilbert
    Registered Users Posts: 5,379 ✭✭✭DublinDilbert


    prendy wrote: »
    http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30400-1303321,00.html

    from sky news....
    shell announce profits of nearly 14bn.

    that is crazy with the price we pay at the pumps.
    i actually was annoyed reading this.

    Most of the price of petrol is TAX, not the cost from the petrol company.

    Hence when crude oil goes from $70 ->$100 a barrel we don't see a 33% increase at the pumps, we see a €0.10 cent increase.....


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    Tipsy Mac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,559 ✭✭✭Tipsy Mac


    prendy wrote: »
    http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30400-1303321,00.html

    from sky news....
    shell announce profits of nearly 14bn.

    that is crazy with the price we pay at the pumps.
    i actually was annoyed reading this.

    British government took multiples of that from the same petrol that was sold, not much of a word about that in the media today.


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