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What is diesel/petrol costing you per week?

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  • #52
    yourpics
    Closed Accounts Posts: 904 ✭✭✭yourpics


    Tipp Man wrote: »
    You can be as careful as you want but the suspensions and drive systems of cars are not meant to be driven in fields or have bags of nuts or fertiliser put in them - which is fair enough that is not what they are designed for - that is what jeeps are designed for which is why farmers have them

    Well I can't afford one and have to make do with the car for now.


  • #53
    Tipp Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,025 ✭✭✭Tipp Man


    yourpics wrote: »
    Well I can't afford one and have to make do with the car for now.

    Thats fair enough - but no need to be jealous of those who can afford one


  • #54
    yourpics
    Closed Accounts Posts: 904 ✭✭✭yourpics


    Tipp Man wrote: »
    Thats fair enough - but no need to be jealous of those who can afford one

    No i'm not jealous, just pointing out a possible method of reducing fuel consumption


  • #55
    Tipp Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,025 ✭✭✭Tipp Man


    yourpics wrote: »
    No i'm not jealous, just pointing out a possible method of reducing fuel consumption

    What you might save on fuel costs you spend on repairs to cars - trust me we have been there done that and have the repair bills to prove it

    The fact is that like a lot of business fuel is a major cost for farmers - a cost which is ever increasing due to government interference


  • #56
    yourpics
    Closed Accounts Posts: 904 ✭✭✭yourpics


    Tipp Man wrote: »
    What you might save on fuel costs you spend on repairs to cars - trust me we have been there done that and have the repair bills to prove it

    The fact is that like a lot of business fuel is a major cost for farmers - a cost which is ever increasing due to government interference

    Yes the government are taking approx 80c a litre from clear diesel. A ridiculous unsustainable situation. If they halved their take, the price would be more realistic.
    Also the fuel retailers are pushing the price up, especially in towns. Diesel is cheaper in remote areas despite the longer tranport distance for the tankers, so it is obvious the retailers are pushing the price up.


  • #57
    Milton09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 451 ✭✭Milton09


    Forget the 4x4's and the cars and even the tractors, this is the dieseless future :D



  • #58
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    i just had a major meltdown at the lad that works here, had a bord bia inspection this morning and while i was in the house with the bord bia man i counted the digger going by the house 20 times:eek: now in my book 3 times would be enough for the job that was being done... as soon as the bord bia man was gone i flipped:o told the lad when he pays for the diesel round here then he can drive the digger where he wants, amazing that the days he is not here the digger is barely used to do the same jobs:rolleyes:


  • #59
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,705 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    yourpics wrote: »
    Yes the government are taking approx 80c a litre from clear diesel. A ridiculous unsustainable situation. If they halved their take, the price would be more realistic.
    Also the fuel retailers are pushing the price up, especially in towns. Diesel is cheaper in remote areas despite the longer tranport distance for the tankers, so it is obvious the retailers are pushing the price up.

    A very good point, it looks to me from the poll that a rough average spend per week is 100e. That's about 5200e per year. Giving the gov roughly 2,000 euro a year in tax off rural ppl, many of whom do not have a taxable income.
    I think there is scope for increasing the vat rebate to farmers.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #60
    yourpics
    Closed Accounts Posts: 904 ✭✭✭yourpics


    blue5000 wrote: »
    A very good point, it looks to me from the poll that a rough average spend per week is 100e. That's about 5200e per year. Giving the gov roughly 2,000 euro a year in tax off rural ppl, many of whom do not have a taxable income.
    I think there is scope for increasing the vat rebate to farmers.

    Apparently the hauliers are in negotiations to get a rebate, I have my doubts that they will get one, I think the government is just stringing them along.


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  • #61
    snowman707
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭snowman707


    Last 2 days

    we had 2 tractors on slurry long draw

    had an 18 ton digger on hire and tractor with dump trailer

    patrol was at ashbourne meats last night with a load of heifers and done ennis mart twice to day with bullocks for a neighbour

    daughter had to be in dublin this morning @ 7.30 and took the skoda

    Diesel ?? 800 to 900€ quick calculation


  • #62
    keep going
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,551 ✭✭✭keep going


    jeep varies from 100-200e a month wifes, 40e a week , tractor 3000 litres a year house 300 litres a year(we have a stove with a backboiler).i make that around 7000e a year:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:at current prices-maybe a little recession for the world might be no bad thing


  • #63
    mufcboy1999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,970 ✭✭✭mufcboy1999


    20 euros a week, 98 1.4 almera and i get around 130 miles from it maybe more if if i tested the owl orange light a bit more:D


  • #64
    flatout11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 609 ✭✭✭flatout11


    with prices on the up is it the end for the landcruiser.............


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