Quelle – Eurostat, April 2026. * Die irischen Preise beinhalten nicht das kürzlich angekündigte Unterstützungspaket oder andere Branchenunterstützungen.
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Von Ohwouldulookatthat
Quelle – Eurostat, April 2026. * Die irischen Preise beinhalten nicht das kürzlich angekündigte Unterstützungspaket oder andere Branchenunterstützungen.
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Von Ohwouldulookatthat
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As someone who doesn’t drive is a 40 litre difference a lot?
And it should be acknowledged that the protesters would be on far from minimum wage
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Are these the new prices with all Gov cuts, or pre-cuts?
From a business perspective, wages, taxes, rent, finance, other inputs all add up. Then add in a spike in fuel cost, doesn’t be long making a business uneconomic.
A truck might have a 500L tank, might do 1000km on a fill. Another €100 every day or two and things get expensive fast.
It just goes to show how detached from reality the protestors truly are
Ireland has second most affordable fuel in EU
We really need to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.
Every other cost associated with doing business in ireland is also higher. For a crowd that have complained about misinformation this is a perfect example of it.
But but but…the great replacement…but but but…the gubberment are trying to control our movement…but but but…drill baby drill…but but but…it’s all a hoax…but but but…
Would you please stop bringing facts to this debate! You said there will be no fact checking!
This is what I keep pointing to whenever the cost of things in Ireland is brought up; can you actually not afford it though? If we have the second highest minimum wage in the EU, of course our goods and services are going to cost more.
But if we have the second highest minimum wage in the EU, we should also be able to afford those higher cost goods and services. If we can’t, there’s a problem. And in terms of consumption, in terms of economic activity, we’re doing grand.
That doesn’t mean there aren’t problems; housing, both access to it and the amount coming to the market, are massive problems, as is the cost of it as a proportion of earnings. But we’re not as much of an outlier in this or other areas than we think.
Irish people in general need to familiarise themselves with the situation in neighbouring countries and how little we often differ from them.
Germany, population 85 million…has just announced a €1.6 billion fuel relief package. Ireland, population 5 million, has announced €750 million fuel package and counting. If the German government adopted a similar approach as their Irish peers they would’ve announced a €14.25 billion package.
[Cost of Living Comparison Between Ireland and Latvia](https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_countries_result.jsp?country1=Ireland&country2=Latvia)
One of the highest insurance in the Eu, road tax, NCT, VRT to clear a vehicle.
I’d argue that this isn’t even a fuel protest anymore, it’s more of an affordability protest.
What about the Danes?
How has the minimum wage been calculated?
Lads in Luxembourg having petrol fights on the forecourt
Is this without eating, drinking, shitting, sleeping and living? Just driving?
Is this taking into account any other costs of living? Accomodation, food or electricity costs? I feel like this comparison may be a bit unrealistic
That Irish minimum wage seems a bit low, or am I missing something?
A decent public transport system would make such a difference here
That’s only 24 litres of diesel per bloke per day.
Ah here OP give your figures a bit of bloody context, I asked Claude to take a look at these same figures after living cost are taken into account and the picture is very different. I think in most European countries people are much less dependent on cars than in Ireland because there is better public transport options and there’s probably less tolls. FYI I am totally against the disgraceful way these protests played out blocking oil from flowing but absolutely get the pressure people, families and business are under.
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Where do these numbers come from? The minimum wages are wrong.
From where are you pulling the minimum wage info? It’s wrong for Ireland and Croatia…
This really proves nothing either way. So many factors not being accounted for, such as housing cost and other expenses, potential non-wage contributions to income (e.g. welfare), taxation, availability of alternatives to driving, etc.
Now do the same table for rent and public transport…do how many months of rent you can afford a year in ireland vs other countries.
Fuck fuel subsidies, the world needs renewable subsidies.
Middle east, Russia and the US have the world by the balls as long as we use fossil fuels.
Such an odd metric to choose. When me and my friends were at the minimum wage stage we had like 1 car between 7 of us.
They all went on and got proper jobs pretty sharpish, I dicked around in minimum wage jobs for years, not a chance I could afford a car (this was back in the 90’s and early 2000’s)
Pretty fucking brutal for Latvia.
Looking a tad inaccurate, at least for france, the weekly earnings are ~420 and not ~270 (sMIC is ~1450 net) likwise spain is also higher than listed here