Get your own back next time you visit any of the M1 service stations, get a regular sized coffee cup and press the LARGE coffee button, watch how it magically fills the regular coffee cup to the brim !!!!

With the current price of fuel why won’t the black market want to sell it. The profit must be huge. Government needs to bring down fuel price because this is just another commodity people need but are struggling to pay. government are making o fair profit on it too.

It’s like the cigs or the booze, raise the price of something unnaturally high and illegal dealers take over. Stupid government can’t get this.

They should name and shame those garages and then have the garages pay for an inspection of the engine of any who’s owner can prove that they purchased fuel from those garages.

Is it any wonder….2 years ago diesel was 96 cent a litre…there’s no justification for the rise in price that has taken place since then…only a government with the on going intent of skinning its people financially in every way possible.

Govt. Greed. If you take away the excise and tax from petrol, the price would be around .55c p/ltr. The bad news is that petrol prices are only going to go in one direction and if historical data is anything to go by, we’ll be paying €2 p/ltr in 2014. Factor in possible hostilities between the US/Israel & Iran in the next 12 months and then, well then let’s just say being in the bicycle trade would be a stable career choice.

Can ye Publish a list of the stations that were closed down..and their contact details !!!! Or is there another website that I can go to find out who they are !!!!

@ cormac, the only difference between agri diesel & “road” diesel is the colour, both are interchangeable in modern and not so modern diesel engines,fact.
The only way to end the diesel smugglers is to make diesel one colour in the island of Ireland but the political will to do so is weak, therefore why listen to our masters whine when there is a solution but one they are unwilling or unable to put in place

lol, but of course, if you tax the sh*t out of something a black market will develop.

@Jimmy, no difference between quality of road diesel and agri,only difference is price and colour,mainly as a sop to those in the agri/contracting industries. Road haulers also get cheaper diesel by way of a rebate.

well with the price of fuel here,not that hard to work out why.

if you work,most people drive,so as usual its the working class who have to pay higher road tax,increased tolls,and fuel prices and a bloody increased carbon tax??my car has the same immisions in 2012 as 2011 and now i pay more for the same pollution,i might as well give up work and sell the car, i would save money in the long term,the goverment say that exports are the backbone of the economy with the price of fuel now, buisnesses wont be able to ship their goods abroad and more jobs will be lost,WELL DONE BOYS

I’d be more interested in an article that read “Major surge in cost of legal motor fuel across country”

I had a run in with ‘washed’ diesel recently. I bought regular diesel but unfortunately some crooked garage owner substituted ‘washed’. It caused €1200 of damage to my car engine. I was reasonably lucky, the bill could have reached €3000+.

my dad bought red diseal from a petrol station (he didnt know, he was just went to a cheap station). They filter the dye out so it can be sold in petrol stations but the filtering process dirties the fuel which led tp ?3k worth of engine damage to my dads car. He had to claim it off insurance because he coukdnt prove where he bought the fuel and the insurance company didnt want to cover “wrong fuel” however it wasnt wrong fuel it was the right fuel only dirty diseal so they did pay in the end

Take a look at what they did in Nigeria! Maybe the Irish government would listen then. There is no reason for fuel to be as expensive as it is. People hear about increases in the price of a barrel of oil, but when the price of a barrel drops the price at the pump stays the same.

What is illegal fuel? (Too early in morning for me to figure it out myself)

Buy only from the big brand stations, it is too tempting for the small guy to buy from criminals. Fuel too dear ? Reduce your speed by 10% and save up to 20% on fuel. It would be worst if it was rationed, we would gladly pay twice the price if it was. Been there…………

Dodgy