“Il peggio verrà” per i consumatori irlandesi a causa dell’aumento del carburante e degli autotrasportatori che minacciano di “chiudere i capitali”
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/worse-to-come-for-irish-consumers-as-fuel-hikes-bite-and-hauliers-threaten-to-close-down-capital/a556486988.html
di Irish201h
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Not usually a fan of them, but we are in the territory of emergency tax cuts to fuel are needed to keep the economy going.
Otherwise we’ll have double digits inflation with everything again.
Could we not just nationalise a section of the haulage industry?
Thanks to the Orange prick…
[Oil price at two-year high after Qatar warns all Gulf production could stop within days](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy031ylgepro)
This is a crisis of the govts own design.
A perfect example is the push to use HVO for heavy vehicles which will rise / fall in line with oil prices and still create emissions. Elsewhere in Europe we’re seeing a big shift to electric for heavy vehicles and all signs are they are working well with few issues and the shift is gaining momentum but here, nope, for some bizarre reason it’s HVO.
We should be a lot further along in the transition away from a fossil fueled economy and now we’re going to suffer due to the lack of prioritizing this move away.
The following need to end in order to be insulated from shocks to the supply of fossil fuels
1. gas as the supplier of last resort in our electrical grid
2. Diesel as the fuel of choice for heavy vehicles
3. Hybrids as the mainstay of the ev transition
4. Various fossil fuels for home heating
Addressing those will pretty much insulate the country from shocks. There would still be an impact but it would be minimal when compared to what we’re going to see.
There are others but those are largely out of the hands of govt e.g. Fuel choice in shipping
It really just comes down to political choices and prioritization
It just seems that the government sit on their hands and hope to ride this out. They seem so inept and amateurish when having to deal with real world issues where their people need protection.
https://preview.redd.it/il3z5hbq7ung1.jpeg?width=1538&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d915f81d5c66b231b55ce878aaad602a80f4ea84
Johnstown Bridge, Kildare
214.9 for Diesel 😮💨
Didn’t they try to do that a couple of years ago? I remember the few weeks leading up to it they were all saying they would clog up the whole of Dublin, starting from the port. Only about 6 of them actually showed up though and they all left after they were threatened with penalty points.
I am all for protesting, but the government isn’t really in a position to stop the war against Iran by the Yanks.
Any of them who like Donald Trump have no right to complain.
The gov should immediately suspend the carbon tax as an emergency measure.
Should do a work from home where possible. Would help so much.
On the M7 yesterday, it’s clear fuel prices aren’t a concern for most. Plenty still driving at 120km plus.
People should be fuel saving and driving at 100km or slower. Fuel economy drops a lot at 120 in comparison
Why cant the government step in and stop this price gauging fake inflated prices? There is literally no need for it. There is enough oil and reservations were being filled well before the war. Everyone has done this. Its just once again greedy companies taking every cent they can off us
Needs must to stop the gouging, fuck them…
It’s not fuckin hard for the government to temporarily reduce fax on fuel. They did it when Russia invaded the Ukraine and things went sky high and for the most part the petrol stations played ball. The retailers like Musgrave’s were the real piss takers that fine
Cost of fuel is determined by the cost to resupply not cost to buy it’s been like for years so unless a massive reorganisation of the entire fossil fuel industry happens this won’t change. Only thing that could help would be the government decreasing the amount of tax.