Fuel Protest (Read MOD NOTE on first post)

Heard this on Liveline there and also over last few days via interviews.

Cuddihy at least responded to this. Contractor guys on arguing that the goverment need to cap diesel at €1 a litre. Cuddihy asked OK, how much is a litre of diesel now - Ans around €1.80/€2 ..

So Cuddihy did push back saying this would cost the tax payer billions ie to make up that .80c/€1 per litre of diesel for contractors, haulage companies, van drivers and so on and so on. Do people really think at all? At how impossible that would be?

And yes, I hear the next argument that a litre of diesel has €1.60+ in tax. Cut that and it means indirectly the tax payer is still paying for that, paying substantially to keep these contractors in business. How long could the country sustain this kind of thing? And what / who else would suffer to put this in place. essemtially this has been a me me me exercise?

Also heard on 1pm RTE News that this €750m public money is in essense to prop up businesses. This is eating into or already used up the money needed for other sectors going forward eg pensions, health etc. There is no magic money tree. To those arguing Ah shur the country is swimming in money, maybe on paper but Keep the following in mind:

"Ireland's national debt is projected to be around €232 billion by the end of 2025, or roughly €90,000 per worker"

I also note NO ONE is blaming the real cause of the current Crisis. In a nutshell, donald Trumps war of choice against Iran. The straits of Hormuz were working fine until this. And the irony is USA dont need Hormuz to supply it with oil, they have there own supply

NOW he is exacerbating the situation further. His NAVY has just started to blockade the Straits of Hormuz, blocking ALL ships in and out inc Chinese and India tankers. So what ye reckon this will do?? Yes - OIL will rocket up further now and when stocks are back in the forecourts the price per litre is going to be even higher eating into any cuts supplied by the government so far, in fact in a week or two we may see any government reductions completely eaten up as the litre price rises and rises.

If this whole situation continues, we are facing squarely into a World recession which includes us, so people need to wake up to this possibility. I am not wishing this to happen .. but IT IS, right in front of us as a possibility and we will not be able to sustain sectoral supports one by one, especially businesses.

Finally, are there TOO MANY contracters, Haulage companies in this business area in Ireland ( with a small market in general ) anyway? Is that the real reason they are under pressure? Too many people feeding from the same trough perhaps?

Its actually quite worrying how easy it is to influence the general public with populist rhetoric.

people are stupid

Empty the coffers and what then if the 2 wars continue to rise the underlying price of fuel?

Go and car share for fecks sake and divide your commute bill by 3

Do your own practical things and don’t be expecting the impossible

Double the min wage of most countries

Treble the pension of the UK,one of the world’s biggest economies

Solar panels appearing all over the place part paid for by Seai grants

Etc etc etc

People need to cop on and have some common sense

The contractor I also heard on Liveline put up a FB post about having to close his ag contracting business

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=949392071171986&id=100083036065121

He has other businesses mind. Cranes, quarry and aggregates, tree removal, loads of plant basically

Had a look on his FB page.

He's a big fan of:

Trump

James Conway

Chris Duffy

Eddie Hobbs

Charlie Kirk

et al

Thats just a few.

Nice lifestyle though by the looks of it. I'd envy him quite a few of the cars he has, and I'd love a custom racing sim set-up like he had deliver last year.

Probably all on credit though, its not like people are flush these days, I know.

Hate to see anyone go out of business these days 😒

I've seen words spelled in ways I couldn't have imagined possible, these past few days

Eye-opening really

Anti anti immgration, what's wrong with that?

Stop giving money to foreign countries and use it to help the people here.

"Ireland's total Official Development Assistance (ODA) was approximately €2.35 billion in 2024, representing 0.56% of its Gross National Income (GNI), including support for Ukrainian refugees."

https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-foreign-affairs/press-releases/minister-richmond-launches-irish-aid-annual-report-2024-showing-irelands-impact-in-over-100-countries/

So the gov has - so far intervened AT HOME with 3 quarters of a billion on this crisis ( €750m ), thats, already, a third of the total money "given" to Foreign countries. So our spend to foreign countries is NOT huge relatively .. as it is made out to be by some

The Government spends 30 Billion every year under the Social Supports heading

How many businesses does that prop up and who are they ? And make it public

https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2026/0413/1568016-protest-coverage/

Oh Dear.

What poor misfortunate is going to have to go on the 9 O'Clock news and explain this absolute Dope.

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Even when you present them with the cold facts about the protest "leaders" they will either accuse you of being paid by the government, or spreading fake news. IQ tests should be mandatory before any future elections.

I’d rather as a tax payer, pay the shortfall to have diesel at 1 euro , than where and who my tax has been squandered on in the last few years.

MM was on the 9 news last night and I thought he was very reasonable and well rounded.

It's disappointing to see more protests today. What do they want? Free fuel?

Oh yes, a chant from a protest was targeting MM to step down. How will that help the grobal sh1t storm that's happening? How will that reduce the cost of fuel? Other posts online from protesters want the government to collapse. How will that help the global crisis? Do people really think a different government will be formed outside of FF and FG? SF will never be able to make a government because they don't have enough numbers. Why haven't they increased their party numbers? Will SF do better? They talk the talk but that's about it.

So you'll pay more income tax so that you can purchase diesel for €1/l?