Diesel, petrol, oil price watch

[Tony Baloney]

How many of you guys drive your car for a living?. Well not for a living as such but I do use my vehicle to get to sites scattered all over the country to which I'm paid £0.45p a mile. This hasn't been increased in 15 years and it costs me money to drive to site, I can't go to my employer about this as it's a Government figure that only they can change.
I was also told in the late 90's people were paid £0.52p a mile for a 2.0 litre car or above then, how can the Government still be paying £0.45p a mile for travel almost 2 decades later?.

Average UK costs for fuel were roughly £1.35/L when this rate was introduced in 2011 and it actually wasn't far off that at the end of 2025 prior to DJT and his mate starting things in the Middle-East.

[Milltown Row2]

7,500 kms coastline.
From Donegal to Cork must be 4,000 with an awful lot of wind not to mention crashing waves.

Fluctuating imported oil/gas prices, (probably will remain high while the thick Yanks keep interfering in the mid East), leave us totally exposed to shocks like the current one.

The Exchequer can hardly keep throwing buckets of money at us, yet agriculture, transport etc can't be let go to the wall.

Would throwing money at HVO make more sense?

What have waves got to do with anything?

As for Donegal to cork that exactly what we need. Energy production built where no-one lives. 🙄

Wave energy converts the kinetic and potential energy of ocean waves into electricity using Wave Energy Converters (WECs) like floating buoys or oscillating water columns. It is highly dense and consistent, with theoretical global potential to meet a substantial portion of global electricity demand, often cited as high as 29,500

[gallsman]

As for Donegal to cork that exactly what we need. Energy production built where no-one lives. 🙄

Imagine if, get this, there was a way of moving said energy from one location to another.

[Armagh18]

How many of you guys drive your car for a living?. Well not for a living as such but I do use my vehicle to get to sites scattered all over the country to which I'm paid £0.45p a mile. This hasn't been increased in 15 years and it costs me money to drive to site, I can't go to my employer about this as it's a Government figure that only they can change.
I was also told in the late 90's people were paid £0.52p a mile for a 2.0 litre car or above then, how can the Government still be paying £0.45p a mile for travel almost 2 decades later?.

Average UK costs for fuel were roughly £1.35/L when this rate was introduced in 2011 and it actually wasn't far off that at the end of 2025 prior to DJT and his mate starting things in the Middle-East.

It would need looking at surely if even for the fact it should cover wear and tear repairs/tyres which have obviously gone up, not to mention the state of the fecking roads meaning these sort of repairs are needed more often.

[DaleCooper]

The [un]funny thing is everyone in the west has been paying artificially high prices since the 70s.

We had plenty of warning but maybe this will accelerate innovation via focusing minds

[Baile Brigín 2]

7,500 kms coastline.
From Donegal to Cork must be 4,000 with an awful lot of wind not to mention crashing waves.

Fluctuating imported oil/gas prices, (probably will remain high while the thick Yanks keep interfering in the mid East), leave us totally exposed to shocks like the current one.

The Exchequer can hardly keep throwing buckets of money at us, yet agriculture, transport etc can't be let go to the wall.

Would throwing money at HVO make more sense?

What have waves got to do with anything?

As for Donegal to cork that exactly what we need. Energy production built where no-one lives. 🙄

Are you being serious here?

[Hereiam]

We should all storm Greencastle and start digging, our worries will be over 

[johnnycool]

As for Donegal to cork that exactly what we need. Energy production built where no-one lives. 🙄

Imagine if, get this, there was a way of moving said energy from one location to another.

We need a modern day Nikola Tesla to sort this out for us.

[moonster]

Government survive SF motion. Was aways going to happen.  Meehole and Simon have said lessons will be learned

[Rossfan]

As for Donegal to cork that exactly what we need. Energy production built where no-one lives. 🙄

Imagine if, get this, there was a way of moving said energy from one location to another.

Takes a while for new fangled things to reach some parts of Tyrone🤣😂

[illdecide]

How many of you guys drive your car for a living?. Well not for a living as such but I do use my vehicle to get to sites scattered all over the country to which I'm paid £0.45p a mile. This hasn't been increased in 15 years and it costs me money to drive to site, I can't go to my employer about this as it's a Government figure that only they can change.
I was also told in the late 90's people were paid £0.52p a mile for a 2.0 litre car or above then, how can the Government still be paying £0.45p a mile for travel almost 2 decades later?.

Why cant you go to your employer?  I'm sure you can ask for more regardless of the "approved" government figure. even if you work for a contractor who is completing work for the government I'm sure the rate they charge for completed work will have certainly gone up in the last 15 years..

Yeah, you can approach your employer but any mileage rate over the £0.45p is taxable so no real point in doing that and giving it back to the Government. How can it be the same rate as 15 years ago...Madness

[trileacman]

7,500 kms coastline.
From Donegal to Cork must be 4,000 with an awful lot of wind not to mention crashing waves.

Fluctuating imported oil/gas prices, (probably will remain high while the thick Yanks keep interfering in the mid East), leave us totally exposed to shocks like the current one.

The Exchequer can hardly keep throwing buckets of money at us, yet agriculture, transport etc can't be let go to the wall.

Would throwing money at HVO make more sense?

What have waves got to do with anything?

As for Donegal to cork that exactly what we need. Energy production built where no-one lives. 🙄

Wave energy converts the kinetic and potential energy of ocean waves into electricity using Wave Energy Converters (WECs) like floating buoys or oscillating water columns. It is highly dense and consistent, with theoretical global potential to meet a substantial portion of global electricity demand, often cited as high as 29,500

A highly dense and consistent energy source in theory.

In the whole world there's been 2 commercial wave energy projects. Both have ended without success. Talking about Ireland harnessing wind power is the utterance of someone who hasn't a f**king notion about what we're talking about.

[trileacman]

7,500 kms coastline.
From Donegal to Cork must be 4,000 with an awful lot of wind not to mention crashing waves.

Fluctuating imported oil/gas prices, (probably will remain high while the thick Yanks keep interfering in the mid East), leave us totally exposed to shocks like the current one.

The Exchequer can hardly keep throwing buckets of money at us, yet agriculture, transport etc can't be let go to the wall.

Would throwing money at HVO make more sense?

What have waves got to do with anything?

As for Donegal to cork that exactly what we need. Energy production built where no-one lives. 🙄

Are you being serious here?

Deadly serious, the Irish government are spending 19 Billion on the grid in the next 4 years. Measured against tax revenue that represents close to 20% of this years record tax collection. The vast majority of that isn't even for new lines it's just to maintain the lines that are currently in place. Of the 1000km of lines be worked on less than 10% of lines will be new ones.

Do you think new power lines just sprout up out of the ground or fall from the sky cost free? There's a high cost to putting up new lines (and in the case of underground an extortionate figure) and a substantial outlay in maintaining these lines. As Irelands population continues to increase on the East coast could you explain the rationale of moving energy generation to the furtherest (and hence most expensive) point from where these people live?

Unless you're talking about Rossfans suggestion that Ireland harness wave power for national energy production. A technology that doesn't exist commercially.

[trileacman]

As for Donegal to cork that exactly what we need. Energy production built where no-one lives. 🙄

Imagine if, get this, there was a way of moving said energy from one location to another.

Takes a while for new fangled things to reach some parts of Tyrone🤣😂

Care to expand on your suggestion that Ireland need to harness wave energy?? 🌊🌊🌊

[dec]

Michael Healy Rae resigns from the government

https://www.irishtimes.com/video/video/2026/04/14/michael-healy-rae-resigns-from-government/