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Fuel protest about prices

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,199 ✭✭✭Glenomra


    That prime time programme was the end of the government's fight back. Abject.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,756 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    Excellent.... hes a rambling fool.

    Would fit right into politics so



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 914 ✭✭✭eastie17


    he’s an absolute muppet. The price of diesel in India is his reference point.

    Ah sure cancer patients get delayed everyday of the week so what’s the problem now he says. Think ****



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,548 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    He's a FG TD sure... Also a bell end in person, little shite ratted me out in Irish college when I was 13 for the bearla



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,776 ✭✭✭lucalux


    This is the kind of political commentary/inside scoop I love 🤣



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 529 ✭✭✭rayman10


    Is that the "open the oil fields" guy?

    The problem with these types is that when they think they are getting places they just keep adding demands.

    You can't sit down and negotiate with them.

    ~500 stations without fuel tomorrow.

    Carnage by Monday if this doesn't stop.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,833 ✭✭✭combat14


    reports that the army have refused to move protestors in places and lots calling in sick - the government will have no choice but to talk to the people



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,796 ✭✭✭DayInTheBog


    So 3 days ago it was "we'll be gone as soon as we get a phone call" not it's we're not going until the government spend 1 billion a month to cap fuel...and open an oilfield.

    Comparing prices here to India, is this guy for real? Does he realise India is the country , not the local takeaway? Time for the army to go in and show them how they remove obstacles.

    Where are these guys on the motorway getting food from and going to the toilet ?( don't answer that part)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,548 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,395 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    They are making the right moves at last.

    Leave them at it until after the meeting tomorrow.

    It's just a bit of cover to both sides trying to get something over the line so that we can all get on with our lives.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,879 ✭✭✭intellectual dosser


    Have you got a source on that, a real one?


    Just in case it needs to be said, that lad Bowes is not a source.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,548 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    LOL putlers very own pet Irish man chay bowes? That's who they are citing, hilarious



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 504 ✭✭✭bluedex


    They ARE low IQ types, but that's compounded by them not caring about anyone except themselves. They, and the majority of posters supporting them on here, are living proof of the epidemic of stupidity promoted by social media. Truly outstanding thickos.

    Its no longer a protest, it's a blockade, denying fuel and essential services to the general public. It causes the food chain and energy chain to break down. These knucklehead brain dead morons don't care about that, and anyone who supports it, on the grounds that they are "sticking it to the man", is also a stupid selfish pr**k.

    Lots of people go through hardship, lose their jobs, suffer illness which ends their careers etc. but they don't inflict hardship on everyone else as a result, just because they think they can. These lads just want to drag everyone down to their level of uncaring misery.

    Utter a-holes

    Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 419 ✭✭Condor24


    In any other civilised nation the army would have moved in. This is a national emergency. Held to ransom by a bunch of thugs. Water cannon would give them a good wash. This can't go beyond tomorrow and into the weekend.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭Iscreamkone




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,756 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    Thats complete bullshit being spread by the usual far right crew.

    The army dont refuse orders, its pretty simple



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,744 ✭✭✭almostover


    Bit of a crazy request? I was under the impression that extracting the oil from there isn't commercially viable? Unless current high oil prices become long term and change the cost-benefit ratio?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,499 ✭✭✭✭bucketybuck


    Unfortunately the Irish army isn't worth a ****, they can't even deal with a rabble of fat, thick as pigshit and racist contractors.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 542 ✭✭✭The HorsesMouth


    While I do think those "i heard it from my friend who is in the *insert public service here * covid inspired posts are mostly a load of rubbish, those army lads and lassies are in their own battle with the government over their woeful pay and benefits. So wouldn't be surprised if many of them supported the protesters. Big difference in supporting the protests and not following a direct order though



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 816 ✭✭✭PixelCrafter


    There's a lot of this strange conspiracy theory belief out there that "we gave away all our oil" or "the government's hiding oil'. Or that we "could be like Norway"

    We have never found any oil of any economic scale. If we did it would be in production by now. We barely have any natural gas, never mind oil - the wells we have / had are pretty small scale stuff by any kind of comparison to serious petroleum producers like Norway or Scotland.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 928 ✭✭✭GSBellew


    There are a multitude of ways to deal with that, not saying the truck wouldn't be damaged, but that is up to the owner of it, move it or loose it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 529 ✭✭✭rayman10


    My guess is a few of these "representatives" will be dragged along tomorrow, a few things will be agreed and the blackades becomes protests.

    Kicking the carbon tax increase down the road for 6 months is a bit of an easy one at this point.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 58,606 ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Of course they don't care. They've already achieved their main aims of division amongst the civilian population. This is what they do, it's frightening that so many people can't see it for what it really is.

    They don't care about fuel prices really, it's just an excuse to disrupt and further divide. You can see it from some of the posters in this thread, shoehorning other issues into what is supposed to be a protest about fuel.

    The more divided (and as a result weakened) a nation becomes, the easier it is for the ugly, hate filled extremes to slip into the system. Look at America, it's the poster child for it right now. A nation completely and truly divided.

    Brexit was the exact same thing and it shattered the UK entirely as an economy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 122 ✭✭goingmadted


    Kunts the lot of them. Lock them up. There are a few ringleaders organising all this no doubt just to sow discontent into the country. All the idiots following on behind then. Whats with the irish flags draped over the trucks eh? Whats that got to do with anything. Lock the fckers up.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,796 ✭✭✭DayInTheBog


    I love to see their so called representative come face to face with a cancer or dialysis patient who didn't get their life saving treatment today and tell them that they wouldn't have gotten it or there had been a crash on the road and that's life. An utterly despicable excuse for a human being if ever there was one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,430 ✭✭✭1641


    Geoghegan was demanding that diesel be capped at the same price as Spain "because Spain is in Europe". Spain is a low wage country and diesel is averaging €1.81 to €1.85. Why Spain and not, say Germany at €2.42 or Belgium at €2.30? Ireland is an island with a large distribution network and a small market but are prices seem near enough to the European average.

    I guarantee Geoghegan is charging more for his services than equivalent contractors in Spain.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 529 ✭✭✭rayman10


    The demands range from fixing potholes to opening oil fields at this point.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,607 ✭✭✭SuperTortoise




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,898 ✭✭✭dmakc


    Too much online for you today. There's a meeting tomorrow on fuel price - not immigration etc - if agreeable, everyone stands down. Enough with the conspiracy drivel at this hour.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,744 ✭✭✭almostover


    Fairly stark demonstration of the intelligence of the leader of this cabal right there. Thinking they're making an intelligent argument while instead just exposing their own ignorance.



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