Leitrim company sees two-week bill for diesel jump by €2000 as crisis deepens

A Leitrim company has seen it's fuel costs rise by €2000 on two weeks worth of diesel, a Drumshanbo councillor told the Leitrim Observer this week. 

While recently Gardaí confirmed that they received a report of home heating oil being stolen from a residence in the Drumcong/Drumshanbo area, it's the rising cost of fuel at the pumps that is most concerning locals, Cllr Brendan Barry told us.

Cllr Barry said: "Agricultural diesel is a huge one, where there are businesses that are buying a lot of fuel every week. Luckily, due to the time of year, the demand for home heating oil is starting to cool off a bit. People might have a certain amount of oil in their tanks and hope that whenever they do have to refill them, the prices may have come back to some sort of normality."

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However, concerns over the soaring price of diesel remain. "There are contractors who have said that their fuels bills have gone up over €2000 per fortnight. Another company with buses; their weekly bill has gone up by €500. I was pricing green diesel myself today and it's gone up by about €600 in two or three weeks for 1,000 litres. It went up last night and they are talking about it going up again tonight. It's just gone crazy."