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Cheapest petrol

  • 28-10-2014 3:18pm
    #1
    pflanagan132
    Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭


    Unleaded petrol 139.9 per litre at Star Energy, Athlone Rd., Roscommon, surely the cheapest in Ireland!


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  • #2
    Addle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,812 ✭✭✭Addle


    But at what cost?!


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Assuming the average petrol car uses about €1 per 10km, there's little to be gained from straying far off your usual route to save money.
    You could easily save €2 but end up using €3 worth of fuel for the extra distance travelled.


  • #4
    nice_guy80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭nice_guy80


    Addle wrote: »
    But at what cost?!

    meaning?


  • #5
    vickers209
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,474 ✭✭✭vickers209


    nice_guy80 wrote: »
    meaning?

    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/petrol-tampering-case-confirmed-as-state-tests-48-stations-1.1977869


  • #6
    nice_guy80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭nice_guy80


    Ok. And has that station been found guilty?


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  • #7
    Addle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,812 ✭✭✭Addle


    Amazingly, not one garage seems to have been affected. Don't know how they are getting away with it.
    Loads of customers have been though, at great cost.


  • #8
    nice_guy80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭nice_guy80


    If they are provided with tainted fuel by a supplier, what can they do?


  • #9
    stooge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭stooge


    vickers209 wrote: »
    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/petrol-tampering-case-confirmed-as-state-tests-48-stations-1.1977869

    does the same 'stretching' happen with diesel?


  • #10
    Addle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,812 ✭✭✭Addle


    nice_guy80 wrote: »
    If they are provided with tainted fuel by a supplier, what can they do?

    Well I wouldn't sell a product without knowing that it was genuine.


  • #11
    Addle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,812 ✭✭✭Addle


    stooge wrote: »
    does the same 'stretching' happen with diesel?

    No. Diesel is just laundered, and that doesn't damage your engine.


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  • #12
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Addle wrote: »
    No. Diesel is just laundered, and that doesn't damage your engine.
    Laundered Diesel has the lubricant stripped out it with the dye, it'll wreck your engine eventually.


  • #13
    nice_guy80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭nice_guy80


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Laundered Diesel has the lubricant stripped out it with the dye, it'll wreck your engine eventually.

    agri diesel isn't dyed anymore


  • #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    nice_guy80 wrote: »
    agri diesel isn't dyed anymore
    How do they check it?


  • #15
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    nice_guy80 wrote: »
    Ok. And has that station been found guilty?
    Indeed, Addle - please provide source for your claims or it's gossip at best or slander at worst.


  • #16
    Addle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,812 ✭✭✭Addle


    biko wrote: »
    Indeed, Addle - please provide source for your claims or it's gossip at best or slander at worst.

    Who or what am I guilty of slandering?
    I haven't accused any specific business of anything?
    There is an issue with petrol in many areas, Roscommon being one.
    The times article is a source. The people I know who have lost the use of their cars are a source.


  • #17
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    You refer to the station in the OP no? Or did you mean another station at some other location?

    Yes, petrol stretching happens all over the country as does diesel washing. It doesn't mean you can freely imply on boards that a certain place is doing something illegal.


  • #18
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,050 ✭✭✭✭cena


    Biko they do name a station in the o.p.


  • #19
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I see that petrol was below 140 a litre on the Athlone road in Roscommon yesterday.


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