Top 10 Energy Charts - local source audit
Top 10 fuel price rankings
This page ranks petrol and diesel pump prices using a consistent weekly source, then separately flags how complete each country's local fuel-tax breakdown is.
How To Read This
Source status
Enough reliable local detail to compare the country properly.
Some reliable local data exists, but key pieces are still missing, so it is not fair to compare like-for-like yet.
Important data is missing, outdated, or not clearly broken out by the source.
Plain terms
- Levy
- An extra official charge added to fuel.
- NORA
- Ireland's emergency oil reserve charge.
- Excise
- A fixed fuel duty charged per litre.
- VAT
- Sales tax added to the final price.
- Pre-tax price
- The pump price before taxes and levies.
- Itemised total
- The listed tax lines added together.
Top 10 Fuel Ranking
Ranked from most expensive to least expensive using weekly national average pump prices from the European Commission Oil Bulletin. Tax-breakdown quality is shown separately.
Ireland Fuel Price Breakdown
Total taxes/levies = excise + carbon/CO2 tax + VAT + NORA/reserve + Better Energy/other itemised charges. The itemised total is checked against pump price minus pre-tax price.
| Fuel | Pump | Pre-tax | Excise | Carbon | NORA | Better Energy | VAT | Itemised total | Pump - pre-tax |
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Rules Used
Total tax/levies = excise + carbon/CO2 tax + VAT + reserve/emergency levy + energy/environmental levy + renewable obligation + other itemised charges.
If a local itemised source is not available, the country is marked incomplete or partial. It is not inserted into the ranking with an EC implied tax total.