If only we had cars that didn’t need fuel. Sigh!
Lots on here saying what can govt do? It’s not the govs fault. Indirectly is is. Being soft of foreign actors and interference over the years has led to this. Allowing the rise of giant monopolies who own govs has led to this.
They compromised themselves year after year and did ignore people. And now people are not allowed to stand up? People have been conditioned to passive over the last 30/40 years, we have but look at where it’s got us.
Ireland has many a multinational located there due to tax laws. The gov should be turning the heat on them to put pressure up to the turds starting wars.
Norwegian here and I really don’t understand the protesting truckers. Like the government has cut all taxes on fuel to combat the increasing prices. There’s not much more to do. What the heck do you want out of this? That we send a small vessel with armed teenagers to open the straight?
If they are demanding their government not continue the same neoliberal drivel that got everyone here, then that’d be good. What to do in the immediate present, idk steal an oil tanker from Russia? Not many other options.
Start transitions to fully green energy. But that’s not immediate.
IMO a foreign agitation/influence campaign. These protests would never take place without weaponized social media and the state level motivation and funding behind it. Norway could be seen as competition, stand in the way of making EU fossil - dependent on other gas suppliers.
Also see: farmer protests in the wake of '22, now nonexistent, although the situation is worse
Generally I don’t think people realized the actual implications of information warfare after Cambridge analytica
Not just that, they’re protesting against high fuel prices by deliberately burning more of it. Stage a protest with actual helpful goals, like getting others to use less this reducing prices due to decreased demand.
Car brains for sure are moronic.
Do you have an American embassy in your country? I recommend starting there.
Stop holding your noses, and listen to them, otherwise they’ll ally themselves with those that do listen: the fascists. They are hurting economically, they need economic solutions.
The worst thing an economy can do is subsidize energy prices for political reasons.
The one lesson we should have learned since 2008 is that politics cannot be ignored. This kind of supposed technocratic neoliberalism has failed.
Sorry but if populism is a requirement then it’s the people who have failed, not the government.
How Brechtian of you.
Has the Irish government done something specifically to make the fuel-price increases worse? It’s not clear to me from the article what exactly they want.
Out of a litre (currently €2.20) about €1.20 is tax. They want to see a reduction in this
When it’s not your fault, yet you do what USA was supposed to do.
What is Ireland supposed to do? Why protest your own government who has nothing to do with the rising prices?
America has plenty of oil. You just have to come and take it. Lazy Irish Truckers.
I’m suspecting these are funded by America, we should strive instead to green up faster, so we don’t get as much of this energy price inflation bullshit.
