It's now costing you more to fill up your fuel tank.
Since midnight, the excise on motor fuel increased, adding around 7 cent to a litre of petrol and 5 cent to diesel.
Sinn Fein Energy spokesperson Darren O'Rourke says the measure to ease the cost-of-living crisis, shouldn't be changed right now.
"This will have a very significant impact on motorists and it comes at a time of record fuel prices, electricity prices, gas, food, rent crisis. We're in the middle of a cost of living crisis at a time when people do not have alternatives in terms of public transport when those options aren't there for people, this is a punitive measure."
