Working in Saudi Arabia this week. That’s 2.18SAR or €0.56 per litre of petrol.

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  1. Ridiculously low, the EU needs to investigate imposing a carbon emission border levy of some kind on these countries.

  2. Looks cheap, but back when I was working on a Saudi project back in 2015 or so, it was about €0.08/litre.

    So if you’re local, fuel costs 7 times what it did 7 years ago.

    Similar inflation in Ireland would put it at about a tenner a litre now.

  3. The tax we pay in fuel is ridiculous…then more tax again with road tax ..wtaf!..we pay more to drive a car than most other countries and yet we probably drive shorter distances given the size of the island …beggars belief

  4. Yeah but if you’re a woman you can’t buy it or drive unaccompanied.

    So swings and roundabouts I suppose.

  5. They could make petrol free and I still wouldn’t live there. The one country on the planet I have zero desire to ever visit.

  6. For reference our petrol in Ireland is minimum 95 octane, so the more expensive (but still super cheap) price should be used for comparison.

  7. They could pay me to use petrol and I wouldn’t live in Saudi Arabia.

    Petrol should not be that cheap anyway. We had a massive climate change induced heatwave across the entirety of Europe *last week*.

  8. yeah, who would have guessed a country with some of the largest oil supplies in the world has a lower cost than a net importer

  9. Also, be very careful what you write here. The Saudis might lure you to Galway and take you in an ally and cut you up in little pieces.

  10. I’d like to be around in 100 years to see what happens when their oil runs out. And why it’s not free for the locals is anyones guess.

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