The car petrol and diesel thread....

JillyQ

€1.46 for diesel in topaz Newcastle today €1.36 in topaz kinnegad yesterday

JillyQ

at1withmyself wrote: »

149.9 for petrol in the Topaz by Silverstrand this morning so prices dropping in Galway, not sure on diesel cost

they haven't dropped enough

bagels

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MacGyver007

146.9 for petrol and 138.9 for diesel in Loughrea

Bobeagleburger

MacGyver007 wrote: »

146.9 for petrol and 138.9 for diesel in Loughrea

Seen similar in Tuam.

It's amazing how when you come into Galway city it's a few cent higher in almost every retailer. "Coincidence"

bagels

rarnes1 wrote: »

Seen similar in Tuam.

It's amazing how when you come into Galway city it's a few cent higher in almost every retailer. "Coincidence"

Whatever price is quoted in Tuam is usually 5c cheaper in Ballindine

antoobrien

rarnes1 wrote: »

Seen similar in Tuam.

It's amazing how when you come into Galway city it's a few cent higher in almost every retailer. "Coincidence"

Not "Coincidence" just reflective of the fact that costs of doing business e.g. rates etc. are usually higher in Galway than it would be in say Oranmore. The same thing happens near most of the cities & larger towns in Ireland.

Bobeagleburger

antoobrien wrote: »

Not "Coincidence" just reflective of the fact that costs of doing business e.g. rates etc. are usually higher in Galway than it would be in say Oranmore. The same thing happens near most of the cities & larger towns in Ireland.

Is the cost of doing business higher in Galway than Cork, Limerick and Dublin?

You think if someone else came in and undercut the other retailers they wouldn't lower the cost?

antoobrien

rarnes1 wrote: »

Is the cost of doing business higher in Galway than Cork, Limerick and Dublin?

Last time I was in Dublin it was about the same cost as it was in Galway. A couple of years ago when I used to work in Dublin, I noticed that the prices were always 2/3c one way or the other (as often as not depending on when deliveries were made).

I remember filling up one morning getting say 142.9/l just as the fuel truck came in for a delivery. Later that day the price was gone up to 144.9/l. At home the following day the same thing happened, the price went up 2c after a delivery.

rarnes1 wrote: »

You think if someone else came in and undercut the other retailers they wouldn't lower the cost?

Margin for retailers is about 3% or less than 5c/l on petrol priced at 149.9c/l, so there really isn't a whole lot of scope for "undercutting".

The fact of the matter is that somebody charging 5c/l lower than a different company is likely trying to make up the difference elsewhere - be it staff costs, higher prices in the shop etc..

snubbleste

Woodquay petrol now 145.9

bagels

bagels wrote: »

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Crumbs868

antoobrien wrote: »

Not "Coincidence" just reflective of the fact that costs of doing business e.g. rates etc. are usually higher in Galway than it would be in say Oranmore. The same thing happens near most of the cities & larger towns in Ireland.

Not true, it's all down to competition and whether the competition is real or not. Galway has always been 2 or 3c more expensive than dublin / Limerick / cork not to mention claremorris etc. Why? competition, galway City has had the same few operates for years, new competition via top in Flemings has helped and once applegreen opens in the old Renault site prices will allign with the other cities.

In terms of costs most of the petrol stations in galway haven't changed hands in years(in fact topaz own their 3 big sites in galway and haven't invested much in them in the last 15 yrs), wages aren't that materially different for cashiers and the fact the fuel is drawn from galway port mitigates some of the extra costs. And that's not even mentioning the higher turnover galway would have v country stations especially in the higher margin stock

antoobrien

Crumbs868 wrote: »

Not true, it's all down to competition and whether the competition is real or not. Galway has always been 2 or 3c more expensive than dublin / Limerick / cork

That's a perception not based on fact but based on visiting places once in a blue moon, not regularly seeing the price changes.

I lived In Dublin for years, saw the petrol prices in Dublin fluctuate in the same pattern as they do in Galway. Unhappily for this myth I kept records.

When I'm going to Dublin I often buy petrol to top up the tank, so it's not unusual to have two fills in the weekend. There were two stations I visited in Dublin that had a lower cost/l than in Galway: Tesco when getting the 5c/10c per litre discounts & a fully automated station near Santry (that charged 4c/l less than most of North Dublin).

The cheapest place in Dublin (relative to the other stations) was a fully automated station near Santry - this charged 4c-5c/l less than everywhere else (I wonder why?).

MacGyver007

Article in this week's edition of the Connacht Tribune:

http://connachttribune.ie/galway-cars-wrecked-by-petrol-stretching-scam-505/

Galwayguy35

MacGyver007 wrote: »

146.9 for petrol and 138.9 for diesel in Loughrea

It's €1.39 for diesel in the Topaz at the West Bridge, but they always seem to be a bit dearer.

Ath trasna

MacGyver007 wrote: »

Article in this week's edition of the Connacht Tribune:

Is it known where the owners of these cars that were wrecked bought the fuel that wrecked them?

westskipper

Diesel price in Corrib Oil's yard on the Tuam Road, Galway today 3/11/14 is 136.9

jkforde

might this have any influence on prices here..

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/consumer/competition-consumer-agencies-join-to-form-single-commission-1.1987390

personally I doubt it but maybe if we send in a few new enquires into them they might sniff around to justify their existence

JillyQ

diesel €1.41 topaz westside

Bobeagleburger

I was in Limerick the weekend, in various towns. Seen petrol for 1.35 and Diesel for 1.27 in a few places.

Rip off Galway still holding out

JillyQ

Got diesel today in topaz kilbeggan for €1.31 a litre.

cocoman

Diesel in Athleague, Roscommon today was 127.9.

intellectual dosser

Diesel was 135.9 in one of those petrol stations beside the Galway Golf Club in Salthill on Sunday evening, the one nearest the prom.

westskipper

Wont be long before new Applegreen station is open on Tuam Road, they will probably be quite aggressive on pricing, especially for first few months to establish a customer base.

MacGyver007

In Athenry, petrol is 145.9 and diesel is 137.9, while in Loughrea they are 140.9 and 132.9 respectively.

b.gud

Topaz westside diesel 136.9 petrol 144.9

westskipper

Cuniffe's of Clonboo (Texaco): thursday Dec 11th:

Petrol 139.9
Diesel 131.9

dastardly00

b.gud wrote: »

Topaz westside diesel 136.9 petrol 144.9

That's normally one of the more expensive stations around the city.

b.gud

dastardly00 wrote: »

That's normally one of the more expensive stations around the city.

I know I was surprised too

Bobeagleburger

b.gud wrote: »

I know I was surprised too

It's still a rip off