Fuel Price Protest Dublin 24th November

I'd give them the benefit of the doubt until we see what they actually do.

I'd also advise avoiding Dublin tomorrow just in case they do go rogue.

SPSV are for taxis and minibuses as it's Small Public Service Vehicles. Buses aren't SPSVs

Ah FFS not this craic again.

I had sympathy for home owners in Donegal until they pulled this stunt. I started to get really annoyed when they were giving out about us Dubliners when FFS that's where most of tax comes from in country and we will be paying for their one off houses often 4 or 5 bed homes while people can't find a one bed flat in Dublin to rent at a decent rate.

Nope totally changed my opinion on helping them out.

Pricks blasting their horns on a motorway past a residential area before many people wake up this morning.

Really going to get support from the general public doing that!

Doesn't every company use fuel though? The obvious answer is to raise prices. If it's a universal issue, won't everyone have to do it?

Well done indeed.

I look forward to the reduced prices at the pumps in the next couple of weeks.

I don't live in a city. I'm not supporting the protest because I know its utterly futile. Duty isn't going to be reduced no matter how often you make a prick of yourself and piss other people off.

Diesel isn't even particularly expensive by European standards here in the first place; not compared to all the other expenses involved in their business.

Irish Rail winding down their freight operation to near nothing, ably assisted by the ILDA strike, is starting to look like an exceptionally stupid idea now.

Everyone involved in this today is wasting their fuel, wasting their driving hours, pissing people off and will achieve nothing.

Irish rail is a terrible service and vastly overpriced! I would love to get the train to work, station is 20 mins away + less stress but its cheaper to drive and I need a car as I live in the country. Its €1.70 a litre, government get €1.20 of that! Thats why the country is the way it is because nobody will take a stand against the Government and the sh*t show that they are! Remember they gave themselves a pay rise in a pandemic! Our health & transport system is a joke. I suppose you were one of those people who sat on their hole about the water charges! well the people protested against that and won! So not all protest are futile.

It took me over 2 hours to get to work because of the protest. I still support them 100% fair play. Petty more Irish people dont take a stand.

I think what the poster is saying is that if he/she had employment/livelihood issues, they're not going to drive around the streets of Dublin waking people up by blaring the horn on their vehicle for all to hear. If I was in any sort of unfortunate situation (doesn't even have to be livelihood related, literally anything that is making my life unpleasant), the last thing I would be thinking of doing would be to go and disturb hundreds or thousands of other people from their sleep/daily commute/making their way around with their lives in general, in order for me to potentially gain something for my own self.

They aren't out protesting the things that are dearer here, only the thing that isn't. Which is why the protest is completely pointless.

Do you not think people already understand their issues?

Ah here what the hell happened to the Irish people? As a nation we've gained a lot though protests and marches.

The cost of fuel in the country is an absolute joke at the moment, and it was going up for months before the Govt added more to the tax on it because they know full well that people have no choice but to pay it. Garages make shag all from the cost of fuel, but the Govt is making a nice profit off something they have nothing to really do with.

TD's won't care because they expense it all back to the tax payer, so without going out and making your voice heard nothing will possibly change on this.

Even in my **** little 2007 Golf it costs me €80 (give or take a euro) to fill the tank, which is insane money for a small tank.

Wow. Your sympathy really went a long way to solving their plight. Very mean spirited to just take it away like that

Vastly more likely to have an impact.

They've picked the stupidest option available to them by far.

But fuel duty isn't going to be cut.

Pressure to be able to increase prices on now unsustainable contracts might get somewhere. Pressure to get supports for EV trucks, support for rail freight as an alternative etc has a decent chance of getting somewhere.