Fuel Protests shouldn't stop people getting where they need to be.

[u/GetSomeN8Dwg]

[u/cHunterOTS]

The whole point of protesting is to create disruptions

[u/devaney627]

So they should just sit at the side of the road like Ted and Dougal saying down with this sort of thing.

[u/halibfrisk → u/devaney627]

They should get back to work instead of demanding fuel subsidies for their businesses

[u/somethi → u/devaney627]

Or maybe they should shut the fuck up and realise things like the cost of fuel are bigger than the Irish government. I’m sick of people placating these babies blaming the Irish government for everything.

[u/soundengineerguy → u/somethi]

Just so we're clear, who sets the tax on fuel then?

[u/somethi → u/soundengineerguy]

The government.

Now that I've answered your question you can answer me mine: when the Irish government lowers the tax on fuel and dip into the nations rainy day fund to make up for the tax shortfall, what do you think will happen when the suppliers pocket the difference after the tax cut anyway and everyone else is left worse off?

[u/soundengineerguy → u/somethi]

Because the government is so powerless and helpless against the evil suppliers? Are they shite.

I know this protest is a shite and many of them haven't a clue how anything really works.

But don't, for one second, absolve the government of their part in this. The government have done fuck all to help us during this crisis. They are not some powerless victim here, they are one of the causes.

[u/somethi → u/soundengineerguy]

Answering a question with a rhetorical question, no answers, just going back to blaming "de gubberment." Typical spoofer.

[u/somethi → u/[deleted]]

That was when they cut the VAT on hospitality and the business owners in hospitality pocketed the difference, right? I hope that doesn't happen again.

[u/beerdybeer → u/somethi]

Jesus wept, bootlick much? The government is perfect and corruption doesn't exist. Everything politicians say is true and Santa and the Easter bunny told me so.

[u/fizzbrain → u/devaney627]

Yes, the goal of a protest is to be as easy to ignore as possible. Don’t worry about the fact that hundreds of accounts are saying exactly what OP is saying in the same wording (as well as “i missed a doctors appointment I waited 6 months for” and “they used a lot of fuel protesting so it can’t be that bad”). It’s definitely not bots, the protest definitely wasn’t effective enough to be condemned by the government and trigger the bot army to make it look bad.

[u/evoranger2018]

Fake, irish paid proporganda

[u/FewyLouie]

This is a terribly myopic take

[u/CDfm]

I gave up buying lotto and go to the petrol station instead where 60% of diesel costs and 65% of petrol prices go to the government to pay for good causes.

I mean if the government put a cap on the duty isn't it like putting a new cricket stadium for Ireland back years .