Local, European elections this year and General next time to return the punishment?
They’re pushing people to the brink..
Let’s play devil’s advocate for a second, how is this extra tax money going to be spent? What worth while projects will the greens spend this money on?
And we all know the pumps will be pushed even more then 15c with price gouging. They really do love kicking you when you’re down…
No holiday this year so.
Pricks
> Government must strike the appropriate balance between providing support and avoiding fuelling cyclical inflationary trends
So increasing tax and therefore increasing the price will help reduce inflation… what a load of bollocks
Tax the smokers and drinkers more to keep fuel prices down, like what has been the way for the past 30 years. /s
Reducing the duty was never a good idea in the first place, even if it was labelled as a temporary move. For one thing, most people don’t remember temporary moves and assume it’s a new increase.
But second, when it was reduced fuel suppliers didn’t bring it fully down by the reduced amount of the duty.
Now it’s coming back in, it’s only going to increase prices across the board.
Cool. I can’t afford an electric car and public transport where I am is shit and impractical for moving a family. So give me an alternative if you don’t want me on petrol?
Everything is rise rise rise. Ugh.
Well that will make my petrol station much busier, not really sure why they’re raising it for you lot when the fullness of your coffers can be seen from my window.
It was decreased because it was almost €2 per litre…whack 15c on and it’ll be about €2 per litre ..make it make sense ?
That’s grand, I’ll just use an alternative method of transport to get to work. Oh right, that’ll quadruple my commute time.
FG and FF will ultimately back down on this.
They’ll be all out to bribe us to vote for them as the elections come closer.
> Consumers’ Association of Ireland chairman Michael Kilcoyne claimed the multiple rises in the cost of motor fuel were going to hurt drivers.
>
> “This is just punishing motorists and pushing up the cost of living. Higher fuel prices have an effect on lots of other goods and services,” he said.
No, it’s punishing fossil fuel consumers. Other cleaner motorists are relatively unaffected.
Cunts that’s all I can say about those responsible for the hikes
I’ll never vote greens again. Never.
I voted for them because I worry about climate change, but their “solutions” are just to charge more for existing methods without improving green alternatives.
Ah, let’s punish people who drive for living and customers whose products will inevitably increase in price due to that ..
This will be great for encouraging people to use the public transport and bike infrastructure that _definitely_ exists and is _definitely_ up to a decent standard…
You don’t make public transport better by making driving worse. You make public transport better directly. This is 100% pure bs.
I literally have no options for public transport near me, not even a private bus service. The nearest option is a train from a station that still requires a drive to, followed by a bus service, all of which would add 1.5 hours to a commute that would take 40 minutes by car. I’m already paying for an increase in tolls and fuel prices keep going up, how is this remotely fair? How much do members of the Dail pay weekly for fuel out of their own pockets?
For everyone saying that “remember this when you go to vote this summer” the last several decades have been bouncing back and forth between 1 of only 2 parties and nothing has changed for the better , it’s foolish to think that whatever your vote is it’ll make a difference when all you’re doing is repeating the cycle of going back and forth , what’ll happen if neither FF OR FG get voted in the same thing that happened last time , they’ll form a coalition to ensure they stay in power even though michael martin explicitly stated on national media that they will NOT form a coalition under any circumstances
It’s a joke .
voted for SF last time because it’s worth trying to give someone new a chance at least and what happened ? Even though they won the popular vote it didn’t make a difference because they ended up not being able to secure their place in the ruling government and we went right back to FF/FG
The petrol stations cross border are going to be licking their lips so.
This is happening everywhere. Vote however you like, it’s still coming through.
Global carbon targets, war, shrinking pension pots, greedflation from a petrochemical industry that knows this is its last tango… Eamon Ryan isn’t masterminding it all 😂
“punishing drivers”, fuck off and cry me a river.
We’ve two thirsty petrol cars so I’ll be paying the extra, but this bollox about everything against motorists needs to get in the bin.
The Irish Green Party are fundamentalists who want to force everyone out of cars and onto public transportation. That MIGHT be a reasonable strategy if they provided public transportation. But outside the M50 we have a public transportation network that most third world nations would be ashamed of.
Great country for anyone who has to get up and drive any distance to work,due to the utter mismanagement of the economy and refusal to develop any sort of an regional economy
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Local, European elections this year and General next time to return the punishment?
They’re pushing people to the brink..
Let’s play devil’s advocate for a second, how is this extra tax money going to be spent? What worth while projects will the greens spend this money on?
And we all know the pumps will be pushed even more then 15c with price gouging. They really do love kicking you when you’re down…
No holiday this year so.
Pricks
> Government must strike the appropriate balance between providing support and avoiding fuelling cyclical inflationary trends
So increasing tax and therefore increasing the price will help reduce inflation… what a load of bollocks
Tax the smokers and drinkers more to keep fuel prices down, like what has been the way for the past 30 years. /s
Reducing the duty was never a good idea in the first place, even if it was labelled as a temporary move. For one thing, most people don’t remember temporary moves and assume it’s a new increase.
But second, when it was reduced fuel suppliers didn’t bring it fully down by the reduced amount of the duty.
Now it’s coming back in, it’s only going to increase prices across the board.
Cool. I can’t afford an electric car and public transport where I am is shit and impractical for moving a family. So give me an alternative if you don’t want me on petrol?
Everything is rise rise rise. Ugh.
Well that will make my petrol station much busier, not really sure why they’re raising it for you lot when the fullness of your coffers can be seen from my window.
It was decreased because it was almost €2 per litre…whack 15c on and it’ll be about €2 per litre ..make it make sense ?
That’s grand, I’ll just use an alternative method of transport to get to work. Oh right, that’ll quadruple my commute time.
FG and FF will ultimately back down on this.
They’ll be all out to bribe us to vote for them as the elections come closer.
> Consumers’ Association of Ireland chairman Michael Kilcoyne claimed the multiple rises in the cost of motor fuel were going to hurt drivers.
>
> “This is just punishing motorists and pushing up the cost of living. Higher fuel prices have an effect on lots of other goods and services,” he said.
No, it’s punishing fossil fuel consumers. Other cleaner motorists are relatively unaffected.
Cunts that’s all I can say about those responsible for the hikes
I’ll never vote greens again. Never.
I voted for them because I worry about climate change, but their “solutions” are just to charge more for existing methods without improving green alternatives.
Ah, let’s punish people who drive for living and customers whose products will inevitably increase in price due to that ..
This will be great for encouraging people to use the public transport and bike infrastructure that _definitely_ exists and is _definitely_ up to a decent standard…
You don’t make public transport better by making driving worse. You make public transport better directly. This is 100% pure bs.
I literally have no options for public transport near me, not even a private bus service. The nearest option is a train from a station that still requires a drive to, followed by a bus service, all of which would add 1.5 hours to a commute that would take 40 minutes by car. I’m already paying for an increase in tolls and fuel prices keep going up, how is this remotely fair? How much do members of the Dail pay weekly for fuel out of their own pockets?
For everyone saying that “remember this when you go to vote this summer” the last several decades have been bouncing back and forth between 1 of only 2 parties and nothing has changed for the better , it’s foolish to think that whatever your vote is it’ll make a difference when all you’re doing is repeating the cycle of going back and forth , what’ll happen if neither FF OR FG get voted in the same thing that happened last time , they’ll form a coalition to ensure they stay in power even though michael martin explicitly stated on national media that they will NOT form a coalition under any circumstances
It’s a joke .
voted for SF last time because it’s worth trying to give someone new a chance at least and what happened ? Even though they won the popular vote it didn’t make a difference because they ended up not being able to secure their place in the ruling government and we went right back to FF/FG
The petrol stations cross border are going to be licking their lips so.
This is happening everywhere. Vote however you like, it’s still coming through.
Global carbon targets, war, shrinking pension pots, greedflation from a petrochemical industry that knows this is its last tango… Eamon Ryan isn’t masterminding it all 😂
“punishing drivers”, fuck off and cry me a river.
We’ve two thirsty petrol cars so I’ll be paying the extra, but this bollox about everything against motorists needs to get in the bin.
The Irish Green Party are fundamentalists who want to force everyone out of cars and onto public transportation. That MIGHT be a reasonable strategy if they provided public transportation. But outside the M50 we have a public transportation network that most third world nations would be ashamed of.
Great country for anyone who has to get up and drive any distance to work,due to the utter mismanagement of the economy and refusal to develop any sort of an regional economy
Gotta speed up those alternatives
Haha just take all our money