Diesel is now at its second highest average monthly price on record, according to AA Ireland’s latest fuel price survey.
The AA said the average price of petrol across the country remains at €1.84 a litre, with diesel now at €2.02 a litre, up 4% from last month.
Gasoline is on average 11% more expensive than in October 2021, and diesel is just under 30% more expensive.
AA data shows that it now costs the average motorist with a petrol car a total of €2,210 to refuel, per year, at current fuel prices, €219 more than at the same time last year.
The average driver of a diesel car costs the average driver €2,020 to refuel annually at current fuel prices, €126 more than in October 2021.
A surplus in gasoline production and a deficit in diesel production are believed to explain the price differences.
“We have seen quite a spike in the price of diesel in the last month, even though petrol prices have remains largely stagnant over the same period,” said Paddy Comyn, director of communications for AA Ireland, reports RTE.
“Sales of diesel cars were very much in the majority from 2008 until quite recently, so these high fuel prices will be affecting large amounts of motorists nationally, at a time when energy prices are rising across the board,” he added, reports RTE.
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