Yes! Among the Most expensive for
Petrol
Diesel
Natural gas
Electricity
Insurance
Alcohol
Mortgages
Housing
Cars
Soon we’ll be the most expensive for everything and living in misery
So we are the 16th most expensive country in the world. I would also assume we are in the top 16 highest income countries in the world, so that standing makes sense.
€1.60 for diesel? Bargain! £1.49 in the UK [0] (€1.77)
Class! That must mean our public transit will be getting an upgrade.
And yet our politicians receive unvouced for travel expenses
Call back to that “everyone agrees climate change is terrible and we need to fix climate change but definitely not by doing anything specific about it” RedC poll of a few months back. We will be paying for it individually and out of pocket through things like ever increasing carbon taxes, which will also then have the real desired effect of making us consume less of the expensive thing.
Jesus. I thought 1.30 a litre was expensive here in spain
Boils your blood doesn’t it. We have to listen to them say we aww we understand and we’re taking measures to help, giving us peanuts that don’t even offset the rise in cost of living. Meanwhile they line their pockets with pay raises. You can be rest assured they aren’t feeling the pinch.
Fags and drink have to be up that list as well.
65% of whatever price it is goes to the exchequer so don’t expect the Gov to do anything other than make it worse. Same goes for the price of everything else.
So it looks like the Netherlands is the most expensive in Europe at € 1.99 for petrol. Bulgaria is the cheapest in Europe at € 1.19. It seems that the majority of the 16 most expensive countries for fuel are in Europe, this is probably because the EU has a base carbon tax plus many of the most wealthy countries are in the EU.
One thing to keep in mind is that Ireland will likely be moving up the list of most expensive countries – this is because the Finance Act 2020 introduced a yearly increase of €7.5 per Ton of CO2 carbon tax. At the moment Ireland’s carbon tax is €41.00 per ton of CO2. We will soon pass all nearby countries except Sweden (€116.33) and Finland (€62.00) unless other countries are also aggressively increasing their carbon taxes.
hopefully it might stop people buying big unnecessary 2-3litre suvs and jeeps
Great time to be buying a car 😕
Ireland is super expensive in all ways and the government makes it worse with super high individual tax rates, terrible VAT practices, and raised taxes on basic consumer products like the recent alcohol price increase fiasco.
Somehow the people who get elected seem to be of a political class and not out to do anything for people who live here.
I’m sure I’ll get nuked into next week for saying this but…
We’re supposed to more than half our greenhouse gas emissions in the next *checks notes* 8 years; and be ‘climate neutral’ in the next 28 years.
Surely we’ve gotta start disincentivising individual car use? We’ve also got laws in place which’ll increase the price of petrol annually without any further input from the sitting government. We’ve also legally tied ourselves into emissions reductions (through agreeing to fines if we don’t see them out, basically).
And I say that as someone who owns and drives a petrol car in Ireland.
We can talk about how fast or slow the government is providing replacement public transport infrastructure and cycling paths: but the fact that owning and driving your own car is getting progressively more and more of a luxury should simply be a given. (Yes, I know, ‘but china’, ‘but BP oil spills’ – we can’t fix the environment alone, but we’re already past the point where we have to do what we can as a country… we’ve made the commitments, we’ve signed the treaties, we’ve agreed to the major fines, and we’ve written the laws… and now this is the unpleasant side of it)
A tax directly on the people that have to get up and drive to work every morning. A tax on commuters who can’t afford to live closer to work or near public transport lines. It’s actually disgusting
Netherlands is 1.92 for petrol. I would love to pay 1.70
soon it be the most expensive country for housing and renting
Thank you fuel card. Thou art my saviour.
Everyone in my circle of friends started talking about moving out of Ireland.
We all work full time, pay absurd taxes, awful rents, no perspective on buying a house and we’re not seeing great future as our money is going down faster than we can make it. Even groceries are getting more expensive but the base salary is not following that fast.
Even to have a drink or two is more difficult with the prices surgers.
I have friends considering going to countries with a lower pay but already with money saved to give a deposit on a place, so to have something on their name.
I love Ireland but it’s getting hard sometimes.
Conjures up images of Monte Carlo. Reality = Mullingar
We’re making great progress on the dystopian hellscape. All we’re missing now is the thunderdome.
Good thing im a hermit lol
I finally got a job after 2 years that isn’t miserable. I have to drive 100km one way, and this happens.
Can a decrease in income tax help ease pressure?
Ireland the land of crippling expenses..
Lol the joke is it is still more cost efficient for me to commute by far 90 min each way everyday than to move to Cork, where my rent would double and creche fees would be 30 percent higher.
ÉIRE UIMHIR A HAON 🇮🇪 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪
Well isn’t is just as well we have one of the worlds best public transport systems then isn’t it? Oh wait…
That’s fuel, drink, fags, housing, insurance, tax, rent, mortgages and electricity that’s all up there with the most expensive in the world. And all for what? Is it any wonder everyone wants to get outta here
*shocked pikachu face*… keep voting for greens/carbon taxes guys! We’re defiantly saving the planet by giving the government more tax revenue!
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Yes! Among the Most expensive for
Petrol
Diesel
Natural gas
Electricity
Insurance
Alcohol
Mortgages
Housing
Cars
Soon we’ll be the most expensive for everything and living in misery
So we are the 16th most expensive country in the world. I would also assume we are in the top 16 highest income countries in the world, so that standing makes sense.
€1.60 for diesel? Bargain! £1.49 in the UK [0] (€1.77)
[0] UK average. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1049478/CSV_240122.csv/preview
Class! That must mean our public transit will be getting an upgrade.
And yet our politicians receive unvouced for travel expenses
Call back to that “everyone agrees climate change is terrible and we need to fix climate change but definitely not by doing anything specific about it” RedC poll of a few months back. We will be paying for it individually and out of pocket through things like ever increasing carbon taxes, which will also then have the real desired effect of making us consume less of the expensive thing.
Jesus. I thought 1.30 a litre was expensive here in spain
Boils your blood doesn’t it. We have to listen to them say we aww we understand and we’re taking measures to help, giving us peanuts that don’t even offset the rise in cost of living. Meanwhile they line their pockets with pay raises. You can be rest assured they aren’t feeling the pinch.
Fags and drink have to be up that list as well.
65% of whatever price it is goes to the exchequer so don’t expect the Gov to do anything other than make it worse. Same goes for the price of everything else.
[https://www.tolls.eu/fuel-prices](https://www.tolls.eu/fuel-prices)
So it looks like the Netherlands is the most expensive in Europe at € 1.99 for petrol. Bulgaria is the cheapest in Europe at € 1.19. It seems that the majority of the 16 most expensive countries for fuel are in Europe, this is probably because the EU has a base carbon tax plus many of the most wealthy countries are in the EU.
One thing to keep in mind is that Ireland will likely be moving up the list of most expensive countries – this is because the Finance Act 2020 introduced a yearly increase of €7.5 per Ton of CO2 carbon tax. At the moment Ireland’s carbon tax is €41.00 per ton of CO2. We will soon pass all nearby countries except Sweden (€116.33) and Finland (€62.00) unless other countries are also aggressively increasing their carbon taxes.
hopefully it might stop people buying big unnecessary 2-3litre suvs and jeeps
Great time to be buying a car 😕
Ireland is super expensive in all ways and the government makes it worse with super high individual tax rates, terrible VAT practices, and raised taxes on basic consumer products like the recent alcohol price increase fiasco.
Somehow the people who get elected seem to be of a political class and not out to do anything for people who live here.
I’m sure I’ll get nuked into next week for saying this but…
We’re supposed to more than half our greenhouse gas emissions in the next *checks notes* 8 years; and be ‘climate neutral’ in the next 28 years.
Surely we’ve gotta start disincentivising individual car use? We’ve also got laws in place which’ll increase the price of petrol annually without any further input from the sitting government. We’ve also legally tied ourselves into emissions reductions (through agreeing to fines if we don’t see them out, basically).
And I say that as someone who owns and drives a petrol car in Ireland.
We can talk about how fast or slow the government is providing replacement public transport infrastructure and cycling paths: but the fact that owning and driving your own car is getting progressively more and more of a luxury should simply be a given. (Yes, I know, ‘but china’, ‘but BP oil spills’ – we can’t fix the environment alone, but we’re already past the point where we have to do what we can as a country… we’ve made the commitments, we’ve signed the treaties, we’ve agreed to the major fines, and we’ve written the laws… and now this is the unpleasant side of it)
A tax directly on the people that have to get up and drive to work every morning. A tax on commuters who can’t afford to live closer to work or near public transport lines. It’s actually disgusting
Netherlands is 1.92 for petrol. I would love to pay 1.70
soon it be the most expensive country for housing and renting
Thank you fuel card. Thou art my saviour.
Everyone in my circle of friends started talking about moving out of Ireland.
We all work full time, pay absurd taxes, awful rents, no perspective on buying a house and we’re not seeing great future as our money is going down faster than we can make it. Even groceries are getting more expensive but the base salary is not following that fast.
Even to have a drink or two is more difficult with the prices surgers.
I have friends considering going to countries with a lower pay but already with money saved to give a deposit on a place, so to have something on their name.
I love Ireland but it’s getting hard sometimes.
Conjures up images of Monte Carlo. Reality = Mullingar
We’re making great progress on the dystopian hellscape. All we’re missing now is the thunderdome.
Good thing im a hermit lol
I finally got a job after 2 years that isn’t miserable. I have to drive 100km one way, and this happens.
Can a decrease in income tax help ease pressure?
Ireland the land of crippling expenses..
Lol the joke is it is still more cost efficient for me to commute by far 90 min each way everyday than to move to Cork, where my rent would double and creche fees would be 30 percent higher.
ÉIRE UIMHIR A HAON 🇮🇪 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪
Well isn’t is just as well we have one of the worlds best public transport systems then isn’t it? Oh wait…
That’s fuel, drink, fags, housing, insurance, tax, rent, mortgages and electricity that’s all up there with the most expensive in the world. And all for what? Is it any wonder everyone wants to get outta here
*shocked pikachu face*… keep voting for greens/carbon taxes guys! We’re defiantly saving the planet by giving the government more tax revenue!