Irish Examiner view: Ukraine war comes to the home front as prices escalate

The Standard and Poor’s GSCI Index, a wide-ranging tracker of commodity and raw material prices, rose by 16% in the past seven days

Fuel prices at this Maxol garage in County Kildare were just below €2 per litre on Saturday. Picture: Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie

With petrol prices reaching towards €2 per litre — €1.96.9 per litre was seen in Blarney this weekend — the economic consequences of the war in Ukraine are daily becoming more visible. 

And, just like the fighting and casualties, the situation will become worse.