The Irish People have had enough

🎼Give Ireland back to the Irish….

Oh, great. Just as my daughter and son-in-law are heading to Dublin, for a week's vacation they've been planning for over a year.

Pray for the Irish government.

That is, pray that they come to their senses before the irate majority remember where the tar and feathers are stored.

RushBabe49 (View Post):

I have been following with interest the demonstrations, road blockades, marches, and other signs of insurgency in Ireland. The proximate cause is a huge increase in fuel taxes, especially on the diesel fuel used by farmers, and big trucks used to deliver all goods within Ireland. Most cities are seeing huge marches, and semi trucks and tractors blocking major highways.

Our daughter and her partner got caught up in the road blockages on a trip back home after a holiday in a far corner of the island.

Google AI seems to indicate the proximate cause is price increases due to the blockage of oil shipment in the Hormuz Strait, and refers me mostly to articles in the Guardian. It says the government temporarily removed some of the gas tax increases last month in order to provide some relief. And of course there are protestors who are blocking access to and from Ireland's only refinery.

The Guardian info isn't really satisfactory, though, due to lack of details about the price and tax trajectory over the last year, the precise date when the temporary tax cuts were put into place, etc. It's all too vague for my comfort. Makes me just a tad suspicious.

Sal Mercogliano was telling us maybe a week ago that a month after the Strait of Hormuz was closed was when the shipments of oil from the Strait would stop arriving in European ports. The transit takes about a month.

I read somewhere that gas was now up to the equivalent of $10/gallon in Ireland. That's a very round number, but it's about $2/gallon more than I was spending to fill up the tank in our daughter's car back in 2011. Or was it 2014? I saved the receipts but who knows where I saved them. In any case, prices have been quite a bit lower since then. Until now.

I follow dozens of Ireland accounts on X, and they are still posting photos of the gorgeous Irish scenery away from the cities. The European "Net Zero" obsession is causing untold misery everywhere in Europe these days, including Britain and Ireland. Prices for home heating/cooling have skyrocketed and everyone is feeling the pinch. Prime farmland is going to big solar farms, even as far north as they are!