Posted on 10/10/2023 12:00:44 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Forecourt fuel prices will increase from midnight tonight — adding €1.28 and €1.48 to the cost of a 60-liter fill of petrol and auto diesel respectively.
There will be a €7.50 increase on the current rate of carbon tax that is applied per tonne of carbon dioxide emissions by carbon fuels. This will bring the carbon tax rate up to €56.00 per tonne.
The increase in carbon tax will subsequently be applied to all other carbon fuels, including solid fuels and home heating oil, but not until 1 May 2024.
It will add 90 cents to the cost of a 40 kilo bag of coal and 20 cents to the price of a bale of briquettes from the start of May.
It will also add €19.40 to the cost of filling a 900-liter tank of home heating oil or kerosene.
In addition, it will add €16.98 for 11,000 kilowatt hours of natural gas — which, according to the Commission for Energy Regulation, is the average household usage of natural gas per year. …
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Hope they don’t experience another potato problem.
They’re already experiencing a morality problem, which is way worse. Flying the rainbow flag over the general post office on O’Connell Street (where a lot of the 1916 fighting took place) and painting it in crosswalks in the city center, for example.
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