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Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 20 Nov 1979

Vol. 316 No. 12

Written Answers. - Fuel Statistics.

383.

asked the Taoiseach the ratio of primary fuel import costs to total import costs and the ratio of consumers' expenditure on traded energy to gross national product, for each of the years 1960, 1965, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1979 to date, and if he will express the ratio as a percentage in both cases.

The following table shows for each of the years requested, (1) the value of fuel imports expressed as a percentage of the value of total imports, (2) the total value of energy (excluding that used on farms without process of sale) consumed in the economy, expressed as a percentage of gross national product at current factor cost. Total energy figures are derived as the value of sales less purchases of energy by domestic producers, exclusive of taxes, together with the value of all imports less exports of energy.

Year

Fuel imports as percentage of total imports

Energy as percentage of GNP at factor cost

(a) Total

(b) of which primary fuel

1960

10.6

8.3

6.5

1965

7.5

5.7

6.0

1970

7.3

4.6

6.2

1973

6.2

2.9

5.8

1974

13.3

6.5

11.0

1975

13.7

6.8

9.9

1976

12.5

4.7

10.6

1977

12.1

5.3

10.7

1978

9.6

4.0

8.8

1979 (Jan.-Aug.)

10.3

3.8

N.A.

N.A. = not available.

(a) Including refined oils and LPG.

(b) Primary fuel imports are defined for the purpose of EEC energy statistics as consisting of "crude petroleum, feedstocks (semirefined petroleum), natural gas, liquids, hard coal, lignite, peat, natural gas, primary LPG and electric energy from natural sources".

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