threat to blockade the whole of Ireland

dr.fuzzenstein

Walker34 wrote: »

When will we ever face up to the fact that Ireland is not a superpower. This is almost as ridiculous as the donkeys in the dail blaming the recession on Fiana Fail or Fiana Gail.

Its globalization folks........get used to it.!
The economic collapse came from the sub prime disaster in the USA where thousands of useless mortgages were sold to European and international banks as investments......called c.d.o.s. A majority (60%+) of these mortgage holders did not even make the FIRST payment.......they just got a free rental home for a year or 2 before they were evicted and the house repossessed.

By the time the banks copped on to the scam it was too late......the vendors many in California had done a bunk with the cash and the paddies and Europeans had safes full of junk. Its called "A hustle" in the US....we call it "a scam."

F.F and F.G were too busy pumping their pension pots to even notice.:mad:

Well, the majority of the price is taxes and, thanks to the Greens, even more taxes.
It would be easy for the government to scrape a few cents of the price of fuel and still make as much as before.
As for the economic crash:
Bertie and co where warned as far back as '02 and by '06 people where screaming at him that the boom will end someday and to plan for it.
He told them to commit suicide, plugged his ears and opened the throttle to full and beached us on a cliff.
Then he grinned his biggest grin and went down the pub.
So, the government can very well plan for economic disaster, countries like Sweden and Germany are doing very well because they did not take every penny they had and put it on red.
In the same way the government can very well do something about the fuel price.

Henry Ford III

Everyone wants lower prices for all consumables. There's nothing wrong with that.

Threatening to bring the country to a standstill cannot be right though. It's on a equal level of stupidity with taxi drivers going on strike.

Zubeneschamali

billyboy01 wrote: »

As anyone who wants a decent standard of life, and not just be a economic slave to the top 5%. Will leave,

Bye!

deandean

Bullseye1 wrote: »

Why don't they just create a commercial rate of diesel for haulage companies like they do for agriculture?

Oh great, yet another coloured diesel.

Hmmm what'd be the best colour fuel colour for truckers?

Yorkie Bar blue?
Pink?

dr.fuzzenstein

Henry Ford III wrote: »

Everyone wants lower prices for all consumables. There's nothing wrong with that.

Threatening to bring the country to a standstill cannot be right though. It's on a equal level of stupidity with taxi drivers going on strike.

I do agree with that, it's no good going this far with a government that at the time wasn't even in power yet.
When negotiating it's better to leave the strong arm tactics till later and try reason first.
That Enda bloke looks like a reasonable fella...:cool:

phill106

bazz26 wrote: »

Have you seen the state of the yard that place operates from? They slapped two storage tanks above ground, connected two diesel pumps to them and opperate out of a cabin. Also where do they source their diesel from? It's alot easier to sell it at that low price when you cut corners. Also how good is the quality of their diesel and what possible long term damage could it do to cars. Of course they probably will not be around to care. As soon as their cheap source of diesel runs out they will be gone into the night.

I believe there was objections at the time, as it is 6 months or so that it is open now, I believe they would have closed down by now if they did not conform to certain minimum standards.

the_syco

-Corkie- wrote: »

If all the blockades meant the price of fuel went down would you not support them???.

Demand for petrol + limited stock = €4 a litre...

Their blockade may go against them, and get nasty.

J.Ball

Does anybody know what the latest on this is?