budget 2010 "I had a dream"

jonnygee

An Taoiseach Brian Cowen said today that he fully supports Finance Minister John Gormleys decision to increase the price of diesel fuel at the pumps to four euros a litre, Speaking after yesterdays anouncement by the new finance minister Mr.Cowen pointed out that now that over 80 percent of motorists were driving diesel fuelled cars the goverment could no longer absorb the decrease in revenue due to the fact that motorists were now only having to fill their cars every fornight instead of every week. "We have got to make up this shortfall in revenue said Mr Cowan, what would you rather we would do, close some of the new cancer centres that we hope to open in the next five years or stick a couple of euro on the price of diesel. Motorists have to realise that there is no such thing as a free lunch and when I announced the new vrt measures back in the 2007 budget I made it clear that these measures were made to help the enviroment and were not intended to be a free handout to motorists."
Ex Taoiseach and now european commisioner Bertie Ahern sid he regarded the vrt reductions of 2007 as nothing more than a "digout" for motorists and that it was always intended that these would be repaid in full.
The announcement was also positively welcomed by the major oil companies who have been struggling to meet the demand for diesel fuel recently, A spokesman pointed out that supplies for diesel worldwide have soared in recent years due to demand from upcoming industrial nations, "We are struggling to meet demand at the moment due to limited refinery output and the situation doesent look like it will improve in the near future said the spokesman, "anything that will cool the demand for diesel has to be welcomed".
Many motorists may yet regret their decision to change from petrol fuelled cars after the 2007 budget as many filling stations report their stock of diesel to be very low.
"I cant remember anything like it since the oil shortage of the 1970,s said one owner." "it looks like we may have to bring in rationing" said another.
On the good news front former health minister and now green party spokesperson on the enviroment Mary Harney announced today that Irelands carbon output has dropped in 2009 by 0000.1percent, "This proves that our policies are working said Mrs. Harney"

Guy:Incognito

jonnygee wrote: »

An Taoiseach Brian Cowen said today that he fully supports Finance Minister John Gormleys decision to increase the price of diesel fuel at the pumps to four euros a litre, Speaking after yesterdays anouncement by the new finance minister Mr.Cowen pointed out that now that over 80 percent of motorists were driving diesel fuelled cars the goverment could no longer absorb the decrease in revenue due to the fact that motorists were now only having to fill their cars every fornight instead of every week. "We have got to make up this shortfall in revenue said Mr Cowan, what would you rather we would do, close some of the new cancer centres that we hope to open in the next five years or stick a couple of euro on the price of diesel. Motorists have to realise that there is no such thing as a free lunch and when I announced the new vrt measures back in the 2007 budget I made it clear that these measures were made to help the enviroment and were not intended to be a free handout to motorists."
Ex Taoiseach and now european commisioner Bertie Ahern sid he regarded the vrt reductions of 2007 as nothing more than a "digout" for motorists and that it was always intended that these would be repaid in full.
The announcement was also positively welcomed by the major oil companies who have been struggling to meet the demand for diesel fuel recently, A spokesman pointed out that supplies for diesel worldwide have soared in recent years due to demand from upcoming industrial nations, "We are struggling to meet demand at the moment due to limited refinery output and the situation doesent look like it will improve in the near future said the spokesman, "anything that will cool the demand for diesel has to be welcomed".
Many motorists may yet regret their decision to change from petrol fuelled cars after the 2007 budget as many filling stations report their stock of diesel to be very low.
"I cant remember anything like it since the oil shortage of the 1970,s said one owner." "it looks like we may have to bring in rationing" said another.
On the good news front former health minister and now green party spokesperson on the enviroment Mary Harney announced today that Irelands carbon output has dropped in 2009 by 0000.1percent, "This proves that our policies are working said Mrs. Harney"

I'm Ron Burgundy?

jonnygee wrote: »

today that Irelands carbon output has dropped in 2009 by 0000.1percent, "This proves that our policies are working said Mrs. Harney"

You can put all the 0's you want before the decimal, it's still .1 of a percent.

Esel

Commissioner Ahern also vowed to lobby for the early release from prison of the Mahon Tribunal judges. "They were only doing their job, and some of them were very good friends of mine" he said in a statement from his chateau in the Loire valley.

When asked about having six official residences, he replied "Eh, well, eh, fair enough, but have you tried running eight households on a Commissioner's salary plus a TD's pension, a few minister's pensions and a Taoiseach's pension without getting the odd digout? You should try it sometime. These are difficult times for me - as you know I recently went through a difficult separation, and only recently learned how the banking system works. I genuinely thought everyone dealt in large sums of cash, whatever the denomination. An' another ting, you can't get a decent half-litre of Bass over here either."

The commissioner also denied that he was bothered about being disbarred from ever holding public office in Ireland again, and that he thought President Adams was doing a great job. He doesn't get home as often as he'd like though - just enough to cash the cheques in Fagans (under new management) before they go out of date.