Fuel protest about prices

This sabotage is costing the country millions by the day. But even it ends up costing €100 million the givernment cannot afford to give in. That will only lead to an avalanche of other narrow interests (plus the permanently disaffected) wrapping a tricolour around themselves, declaring "we are the people" and demanding god knows what, while bringing normal life to a standstill with barricades.

I can't tell you, as you'll form a coup with the army and go beat them up like the big man you're claiming to be all morning.

You can't tell me because there are no delegates.

Remind us again why Whitegate and other fuel depots are being targeted by the protesters? Are they looking for more scarcity and higher fuel prices? Because that's exactly what they have achieved

I'll await petrol stations going out of business - maybe you could compile a live list for me?

Good lad.

Because the delegates instructed them to do it.

The ones who want the government to pick up the phone to them but won't give out their number.

So the protesters are protesting against the rise in the cost of fuel which is caused by trump and Benny, but the answer the protesters have come up with is to block Irelands one and only refinery so that we have to deal with higher prices and a lack of fuel? Right………

This is where they will lose the peoples support. All fine having a slow moving protest on motorway and causing a bit of hassle for people but when they stop the fuel getting to the forecourts people wont be long in getting sick of this

I have sympathy for them but it's the people who are supporting them that they are hurting now

There won't be a record surplus this year.

this has been coming for a few yrs now.the level of frustration out there is very real.ffg need to go and go now.along with there backers.yes the Shinners and soc dems are no better but after 100 years of ffg it can’t get any worse.

100% in support of this rise by ordinary folks sick of been screwed over

Ah come on, people on here are being deliberately obtuse about the protests.

Protests without actual obstruction of daily life don't get noticed, end of. That's why strikes block people going in and out of places of work. So the people saying "oh that's not a protest, they're bandits holding the country to ransom" is nonsense. Nothing ever gets done until something is burning. Look at the water protests, if people hadn't have blocked the water meter installers, we'd all have been paying that tax now. It certainly wouldn't have changed if it was just a few placards outside Leinster House.

They don't appear to have incoherent demands as far as I can see. They're looking for a decent, temporary reduction in the amount of VAT charged by the government on fuel. Either reduce the percentage, or make it a flat rate per litre e.g. whatever they were getting per litre on average over the course of 2025.

Yes, the price hikes are not the government's fault. It doesn't mean that they do not have a responsibility to mitigate the effects of the price hikes on the general population. Fuel is central to everything, and no one wants a return to the runaway inflation of 2023. It is so clearly one of the times where economic intervention is warranted - and sitting on their hands hoping the Iranian conflict ends is irresponsible at best and downright negligent as an elected government at worst.

Now the protesters are definitely walking a delicate line. They know that endless days of blockades are going to turn the public against them (and you can see the tide turning a bit already). They've made a strategic decision to go all out - blockade everything, including the refineries, while the public are still generally behind them. Pictures of queues at petrol stations might, MIGHT, make the government take additional steps towards easing the cost burden.

Pictures of them fighting with the gardai/army as they start to be moved will only feed the FG narrative that these are a hodgepodge group of violent individuals intent on causing more trouble to the public. So they need to play all their cards before that happens.

Utter stupidity from the protesters who have been hoodwinked by far right groups into taking this action. Blocking the refinery only creates a fuel shortage and bingo the price increases. Joined up thinking is in short supply from theses individuals who have no plan, no strategy and no hope. Public opinion will turn strongly against them within a few days. The army and gardai need to take action and seize vehicles until these blockades end.

We haven't all come together. Its a tiny tiny minority of the population.

The thicko community.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DW5x3LMIPp-/?igsh=cjRweGF1OWl5d2E1

Looks like the hard pressed working man is getting sick of these people

In fairness, they're farmers and hauliers; it's not exactly the intelligentsia we're dealing with here.

As I said previously..they don't seem to know what they want themselves. One poster above said a VAT reduction, he might tell them that's their goal as all you hear from them is 'a bitta support/a helping hand/to be heard' etc. There is very little in the way of actual goals here. They're claming to all be on the same page but also individuals who don't speak for one another so try engaging with that sensibly.