{"id":589813,"date":"2026-08-11T10:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T10:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/589813\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T10:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T10:06:08","slug":"sharp-rise-in-motor-fuel-prices-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/589813\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharp rise in motor fuel prices in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a sharp increase in average motor fuel prices in the past month, according to analysis by AA Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Its latest fuel price analysis found the average litre of diesel cost \u20ac1.92 at the start of August, up 19c on the July figure.<\/p>\n<p>An average litre of petrol, meanwhile, was up 9c to \u20ac1.84.<\/p>\n<p>It means that a motorist buying 50 litres of fuel is spending, on average, \u20ac9.50 more for diesel or \u20ac4.50 more for petrol since early July.<\/p>\n<p>AA Ireland said the shift reflected an increase in wholesale prices. That, in turn, is due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/business\/2026\/0811\/1587382-oil-prices-war\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">increases in the price of oil<\/a> &#8211; which have risen again after hopes of a peace deal between the US and Iran receded.<\/p>\n<p>AA Ireland said the change at the pumps &#8220;reflects global market conditions rather than any change in tax.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Government&#8217;s cuts to excise duties, first announced in April following national fuel protests, remain in place.<\/p>\n<p>Under Government plans the reductions are set to be reversed on a phased basis, starting in September. That will see 9c returned to the price of a litre of petrol, and 10c in excise reintroduced to a litre of diesel.<\/p>\n<p>AA Ireland said motorists should plan for further increases through the autumn if wholesale prices stay elevated.<\/p>\n<p>It also advised drivers to do maintenance checks on their vehicle, which would help to improve its fuel efficiency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a sharp increase in average motor fuel prices in the past month, according to analysis by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-589813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}