Pace of surging prices at the fuel pumps 'beggars belief'

Prices of over €2 per litre are being seen across the country. Photo: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie

The rapid surge in the price of filling the car “beggars belief” and “raises the question of how it’s happening so quickly at the pumps”.

As prices for a litre of petrol hit the €2 mark, Dermot Jewell of the Consumers’ Association of Ireland has said it should not be a case of “history repeating itself where prices are fast to rise and slow to come back down”.