Close Menu
    Irland

    Trotz zweiter Intervention bleiben die Kraftstoffpreise hoch – AA

    Share.
    View 35 Comments

    35 Kommentare

    2. mrlinkwii on

      its like pricing is out of control of the government and the issue is a US president out of control bombing the middle east

    6. WideChrome1 on

      All the deadly revolutionary lads in here told me the protestors won though .

      Seen a lad on Facebook talking about how he has to shut down his business and ends with a trump quote unironically.

      I have to wonder if the claim about us being one of the most educated countries in Europe/the world is true after the past week. We’re a shower of fools

    7. HibernianMetropolis on

      Maybe policy decisions shouldn’t be made by lads on tractors parked up on O’Connell street?

    9. doates1997 on

      I dont know what people were expecting. The govement dont set the price.

      Its the same logic as those who want subsadies for housing. Lets give everyone a 10% subsadie for people renting. Now everyone has an extra 10% so landlords put up prices to match it.

    10. SomeRandomGamer3 on

      No way, it’s like the Irish government doesn’t control the global oil prices. That and the lower excise duty only comes into effect on diesel that garages have bought since Tuesday. Local place got refilled yesterday morning and are selling at €1.89, there’s a place in Killarney that are €1.88.

    13. EnvironmentalShift25 on

      I demand the government borrow €100 billion so they subsidize diesel prices to €1 a litre for a few years.

    15. stuyboi888 on

      Down lots for me in Cavan. I didn’t bother going over the border this week as the fuel up there is still going up

      191 was cheapest for petrol last week.  Just filled up for 179 on the Dublin road

    16. ultiwhirl on

      Prices were cut by 10 cent and dropped by 10c, was it expected to drop more suddenly nothing else has changed in terms of the global crisis?

    17. Just_Shame_5521 on

      And now, thanks to intervention for businesses, the options available to help the people, will be far more limited.

      Hauliers can push their price expenses on to customers as soon and as aggressively as they like. But we are now subsidising them, they will still increase prices and we (the people) will have less supports available to us.

      These „protests“ were not for the people. They were for a caball of business owners to extort a money grab.

    18. N81Warrior on

      The ordinary PAYE worker who has to commute is the most affected. No income tax reliefs, just monthly expenses going up.

    21. IncredibleBackflip on

      I really hope the government don’t make any more interventions on fuel prices – it is a poor use of public funds. It costs huge amounts (€500-€750m) to make the smallest intervention, which barely helps anyone anyway. We should be upgrading the country’s infrastructure – particularly in public transport and renewable energy.

    22. RomfordWellington on

      505 million gone in a flash. Pissing against the wind.

      Stupid poxy protestors and stupid poxy government.

      Between this and the late March fossil fuel intervention, that’s almost a billion gone – or to put that into perspective, about half the Anglo bailout or the national children’s hospital. And it’s made zero difference.

      What they should’ve said was „the price of kerosene and natural gas are both way too high. We’re doing a national programme of replacing your existing boilers with heat pumps, starting now, no cost to you. To fund it we’re bringing the carbon tax increase forward. A small pain today for better bills in the winter.“

    26. ChemiWizard on

      We continue to remain in the middle of European countries. Headlines like this continue to make an issue seem like it is Ireland specific, when it is not.

    27. OriginV on

      One station in Ballina Co. Mayo, charging 189.9 for diesel today, did not think I’d see it below €2 anywhere for a long time.

    28. SouthLeast8143 on

      It’s insane to me there isn’t a single political party in Ireland that opposed the duty cuts on the basis that they wouldn’t actually do anything.

    29. TheHames72 on

      I live in the Netherlands. Diesel is around €2.75 here. You guys are living the dream.

    30. GreatEire on

      Please don’t post anymore fuel threads. It gets the underclass upset and thinking. We are happy to pay more money if it keeps FFG in power.

    33. JHRFDIY on

      It’s almost like these interventions lead by “the people for the people” only ever make it to the top of the capital ladder.

      See also; publicans.

    34. vanman99 on

      I for one am shocked…..who could have predicted this would happen…..won’t someone think of the children…..

    35. saggynaggy123 on

      The fact is we cannot change what’s happening in the middle east but we can make necessary steps to help weather the storm:

      – Enact emergency powers to cut fuel tax to 8% like Poland has
      – Begin mandating WFH on different days of the week for public sector workers (where possible)
      – Enact a four day working week for public sector workers to save fuel on keep them off the road
      – Further subsidise public transport or just make it free
      – Promote renewable home energy like solar
      – If oil starts to dwindle in supply, ensure rural communities reliant on cars are the least effected by promoting more public transport in urban settings

      Only issue with all this? Money

    Leave A Reply