How long until we see €2 a litre and will it push more to EV's faster?

This is just nonsense.

As someone who lives in a commuter county an hour from the M50, and works in tech/services for a large Irish company, there are no equivalent jobs or companies within the locality. If it wasn't for the ability to WFH (thankfully), I would probably be unemployed as moving back to Dublin isn't an option given not just the cost of housing/rentals but the extreme lack of supply and with the current costs of fuel, if would be costing me probably 700+ a month at the moment.

There are bus and rail services to Dublin from the town but these are already at capacity at peak times. If the thousands of people hitting the motorway every day suddenly gave up the car, how exactly would they get to work on time?

Anyone doing that sort of distance/mileage is doing it out of necessity. This idiotic idea being posted on this thread that such people should just change jobs, move, go buy a 30k+ car, use public transport, etc shows a complete detachment from the reality of those situations, complete with a dash of the "I'm alright Jack" culture that is all too common in this country.

The reality is that we were pushed by government policy from petrol to diesel, not saying things will change back but they don't always get it right and there are valid questions about how green the electric cars are.

Sorry it was another person that said it initially.

If there's one potential benefit to all this mess is if its gets people to think twice about buying some large SUV they don't need, at least the electric offerings have been slow in this sector so you see far more electric hatchbacks and saloons which could be a nice change in direction but then its probably only a matter of time, the Ioniq 5 is far bigger in the flesh than I thought!

Ill suck up the petrol prices and be sticking with my petrol guzzler for the foreseeable future but have a lot of want for an Etron GT, they look the business 😎

The Honda E is cool too but I don't think I've ever seen one on the road.

To be honest this is how the electric car war gets won, just make them cool and aspirational and far more people will buy them, Nissan especially have copped onto this, a Gen 1 Leaf was horrible to look at but the new one looks decent.

It's not nonsense, some people genuinely don't have an issue commuting an hour each way. Just because a lot of people are doing it out of necessity and some are miserable doesn't mean everyone is.

I really don't think so. As it was it wasn't even noticed as it was swallowed up immediately and the same would happen again.

Can our government or EU put a cap on fuel prices?

He has some control. He made a promise in the Dail last year on the NORA levy that wasn't honoured. See:

I don't know how feasible it would be, or if it would put the EU at the back of the Q to buy oil.

But perhaps the EU could just say that it's not going to pay more than X for crude oil.