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SEAI Fuel Cost Comparison posters at petrol stations

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    #332
    elperello
    Registered Users Posts: 14,979 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122389007#Comment_122389007

    No it's not.

    The price per litre allows you to decide which item on sale in that premises is the best value.

    This poster is telling you that you can get better value at home than what is available at the premises.

    If you want to discuss it in terms of drinks it's a bit like a supermarket having to tell you that you'd do better with a Sodastream.



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    #333
    CMOTDibbler
    Registered Users Posts: 7,755 ✭✭✭CMOTDibbler


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122389007#Comment_122389007

    It's something I always check. Especially when buying beer. 🤣

    But OMG the deja vu I'm experiencing right now. Same stuff being spouted as was at the beginning of this thread. Same pointless arguments, same absolutely pig-headed stubbornness and wilful ignorance.

    1. Forecourts don't sell electricity - Eh, lots do. But it's entirely irrelevant. It's not about THAT forecourt.
    2. Why is it not the forecourt price - Because it's not the cost to the motorist
    3. I don't agree in principle - What principle? That people should be kept in the dark?
    4. What about people who can't charge at home? - Then they shouldn't buy an EV.

    It's an informational poster. That's it. No need to have a coonniption.



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    #334
    cc
    Registered Users Posts: 459 ✭✭cc


    I disagree on two points, first it is telling me the relative price, Second, soda stream is more expensive than buying a straight up bottle of fizz!.... relatively speaking of course



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    #335
    MakersMark
    Registered Users Posts: 641 ✭✭✭MakersMark


    The posters should display the current price of a new EV, depreciation of same and the savings you'll make by keeping your 10 year old diesel that owes you nothing!

    😜



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    #336
    Flinty997
    Registered Users Posts: 12,117 ✭✭✭✭Flinty997


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122389143#Comment_122389143

    It might be telling them the branded product is cheaper than the supermarket own brand product. Due to the misleading way they've priced it.



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    #337
    Flinty997
    Registered Users Posts: 12,117 ✭✭✭✭Flinty997


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122388701#Comment_122388701

    Considering the % of EVs on the road is tiny compared to ICE is laughable you think this has any meaningful impact .



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    #338
    elperello
    Registered Users Posts: 14,979 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122406535#Comment_122406535

    As long as they are displaying the price of what they sell that's all they need to do.

    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122406541#Comment_122406541

    Actually I think the posters will just become part of the background and be ignored by most customers.



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    #339
    Flinty997
    Registered Users Posts: 12,117 ✭✭✭✭Flinty997


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122406616#Comment_122406616

    The pricing of electricity is like the wild west. Its impossible to know the cost of charging without considerable effort. It changes depending on the time of day and the supplier and location. Even public charging has so many variables it's a maze.

    The posters are a nonsense.



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    #340
    Flinty997
    Registered Users Posts: 12,117 ✭✭✭✭Flinty997


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122406419#Comment_122406419

    Then there's this. There is no disincentive from the govt not to buy diesel.

    Then there's a massive media anti EV disinformation campaign that's going unchecked.

    Then there's a price war with EVs and manufacturers with some anti consumer practice around warranties and batteries and software bugs and simply too many manufacturers not standing over manufacturing or design flaws that the consumer is meant to suck up.

    The Govt is failing consumers. If the move to alternative fuels fails, it's govt to blame.

    The posters do diddly in that context..



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