„Wir werden in unseren Traktoren schlafen“ – es wächst die Befürchtung, dass die Treibstoffproteste die Zapfsäulen im Westen des Landes lahmlegen
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/well-sleep-in-our-tractors-fears-grow-that-fuel-protest-will-leave-pumps-in-the-west-of-the-country-dry/a932392093.html
Von B8_B8_B8
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>At Galway Port, the fuel terminal was shut down from 11am yesterday after tractors parked across the entrance, preventing delivery trucks from refuelling. No fuel has left the terminal since yesterday morning and pumps in Galway were expected to run dry as early as last evening.
Why are they blocking fuel deliveries?
Sound lads, screw the rest of us. Thank god the fuel price increases don’t effect anyone else.
So they’re complaining about fuel prices and shortages then they block garages from refueling and also fill up their tractors and drive for hours at a slow pace just to waste all their fuel??
Genius.
I wonder if they are sponsored by someone who will benefit from this chaos or they are just a bunch of brainless amoebas.
It’s mad Ted
Let’s make everything worse. Blocking fuel distribution centre. Bellends.
Well according to the the Gardaí in Dublin just now, they didn’t sleep in their tractors they just abandoned them. Healthcare workers are having difficulty getting to work and these idiots on the protests think it’s a great laugh.
This protest has been massively pushed across social media and I think we all know it’s not all coming from Ireland.
Its absolutely infuriating that you have to pay fuel excise on the fuel you use to get to the protest against said fuel excise. The government are literally making money off the protest itself
Also the US politicians causing all this sh1t are the ones who have the least worries about buying fuel. I’m sure most haven’t lifted a pump nozzle in years, if ever.
They’re in their bunkers and mansions gleefully saying „Let the ordinary people pay for it!“
People involved in this aren’t the sharpest
Is the Luas red line blocked by anything ?
I always worried, down the years, about Something Big happening in Galway.
A crash, a terror alert. Something that would shut the place down.
Now here we are. Connemara is closed effectively.
Dont see why if anyone else decided to park and abandon their car overnight on O’Connell street they’d be towed away yet this is tolerated. Joke
Viewing the WhatsApp organising groups has been interesting. One message I read seemed to come from an antagonizer hoping to escalate things. „Cut the taxes or cut their throats“ This person didn’t appear to be a haulier or tractor driver. Also the call to try to block Dublin port came very late in the day.
Protesting a fuel shortage by contributing to a fuel shortage wasn’t on my 2026 bingo card.
Not the sharpest lightbulbs in the toy chest i guess.
idiots, absolute idiots
> Mr Geoghegan said a “cap on agri-diesel” must be passed. He said the price to fill a heavy-duty tractor has risen from €400 to €700.
Is this true? Prices at the pump have gone from about €1.85 to €2.20, which is about a 20% increase, but he’s claiming his bill has nearly doubled? I assume it’s not completely the same as buying from the pump, but is it that different?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8r40y3rv75o
They did it! Well done you lads in tractors!
Abandoned vehicles should be seized and their owners prosecuted. This protest serves no purpose other than to anger the general public and make their lives that little bit tougher.
That’ll open the straits of Hormuz!!!
I don’t understand what this protest is meant to accomplish. The US has done something insane and it’s affected the global flow of oil. As much as the Irish government is inept, I’m sorry, but no one really cares about Ireland, and this protest doesn’t change anything. Using a bunch of oil to disrupt traffic in Dublin doesn’t change anything.
Much in the same way that protests like this for Palestine didn’t actually accomplish anything. For both groups, they think or will say „protests are meant to be disruptive“. The unsaid part of that is „if they can affect change“.
To be fair, you have to see their side. They are blocking fuel access to represent the block to fuel for them in terms of cost. It’s clever.
It’s possible for it also to be a dick move. Doing this while government is off is dumb. And it’s regular Joe’s that suffer. Never really understand what this achieves in terms of sentiment. I still dislike Luas drivers.
Did the farmers end the war ?
I jest, hopefully it isn’t just to by time.