It’s going to lead to a significant loss to the exchequer when struggling businesses are pushed under and people have to go on the dole instead

In France your also not ripped off with having to pay motor tax every year, you pay 10% motor tax when you purchase your car and every time you fill your car with petrol or diesel the motor tax is already included in the price at the pump. Ireland could learn a thing or two from them

For every €20 you put in your car, €13 of it is tax…scandelous!

Fuel goes up
Then business closing goes up
Then unemployment goes up
Then numbers on the dole goes up
Then tax goes up
What a complete feck up !
Simple economics Noonan

cutting tax on fuel to improve spend in the economy for businesses would be too smart an idea for this government.

rising prices means increased tax take , why don’t they just cap the amount of tax taken from fuel ? simples !

Till they want more money and introduce more taxes on fuel!

Even if they binned the so called carbon tax inflicted on us by those cabbage headed compost wallowers it would help, but doing the right thing for the people ain’t part of their mandate.

Haha our government wouldn’t piss on us if we were on fire

Gangsters the lot of them, if it doesn’t suit the government or make them more money they don’t give a flying monkey about us, sure we just keep voting them in anyway, why would they be fearful

As long as they can continue living the good life they dont care about us mere mortals.

No TD or Senator will go cold this Winter, so stuff the rest of ye!

The price of fuel is indeed outside of our governments control. The excessive taxes they impose on this imported fuel is however not outside of their control. Unfortunately those who decide on the amount of taxes we will pay on our fuel are currently in receipt of wages in excess of €90,000 and are driven around by State cars. They eat in subsidised canteens and have shown a consistent disregard for the suffering of ordinary people in this country. Bread and Milk are delivered by truck. Trucks use diesel. The cost of basic foodstuffs will now have to increase. But then this is outside of the control of the government, sure let them eat cake.

I detest the so called “leaders” of this country

Still waiting for a day when this govt does something for its citizens that makes me go “fair play”. Just more promises of taxes. Keep it coming.

It’s becoming more difficult to get money for petrol to get me to work!

“Purchase more fuel efficient vehicles” – WE HAVE NO MONEY TO DO THAT!

“Put any additional funds into the public transport system” – I LIVE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BLOODY COUNTRYSIDE!

TDs couldn’t give a rats arse about this issues as they get their mileage allowance and in some cases have the use of chauffeur driven state cars at our expense ….

Slowly killing the goose that laid the golden eggs. This government is so out of touch with Production vs Production capability they are greedily gobbling up 85c (or thereabouts) on a litre of fuel and are blind to the knock on effect of less disposable income people can use elsewhere which would have far more reaching benefit to the wider economy.

The government say any tax reduction on fuel would lead to a significant loss to the Exchequer, wait until they see hundreds more job losses because of fuel prices. It will cost the country alot more.

Is this all part of the governments plan to make Ireland more competitive???

I haven’t had a car in over two years, but I’m lucky that I can work at home, very few people can.
The fuel increase will lead to a consumer products price increase too and less people being able to afford them, this includes food!

I feel sick. slimey rats

They want to get Ireland working again but are pricing us out of being able to get to work!
My partner and I worked it out and it will now cost us 20e a week just to take our 7 year old to school in the car.
PERSONALLY, I feel a better idea would have been to put a tax cap on fuel prices and increase duty on cigarettes and alcohol, luxuries! Don’t need smokes and beer to work and to get the country working!
All they are doing is increasing the price of what is quite possibly the most important commodity in today’s society, petrol/diesel is used to transport the food we eat, the oil to warm our houses, public transport and, well, everything! Prices will only go up and up and all we can do about it is continue to bend over and take it!!

This Conor faulkner chap from the AA or someone that has the ear of the media needs to organise a real out an out protest regards fuel and motor costs. nStart by orgainising an online protest to each TD in the government and then take it further. Noonan needs to be exiled as a enemy of the state. I would go further than exile but hey i’ll settle for that n

Four biodiesel plants are currently ‘mothballed’ in Ireland, while four pure plant oil production facilities have also ceased production.

”These production plants, which have a combined capacity of 60 million litres, were established with the assistance of grant aid, but are being squeezed out of production by cheaper imports of biofuels from outside the EU,” bioenergy specialist Barry Caslin told the conference.

The reasons come down to the policies and the way they have been implemented.

”The decision not to make it a requirement on successful companies that were granted excise relief to source biofuel in Ireland under the MOTR support scheme announced in 2005 was the first major mistake,” said Barry.

However, the introduction of the new biofuels obligation scheme from 1 January 2011 has been the death nail in the fledgling industry.
Farmers Journal (May 2011)

How stupid does this minister think the people are. We all know that the 70% or s tax take on fuel costs are NOT external pressures and can be addresses by the government. When tiis country gonna demand we stop being blatantly LIED to.

Seriously thinking about LPG at this stage.

See what happens when you vote in a real fake socialist rather than what we did and vote in a coalition with fake fake socialists! I was in Spain recently, petrol was 1.43.9

72% they take between excise duty, VAT and various carbon taxes.

““as this would lead to a significant loss to the Exchequer”

That is a basic misunderstanding of Math. If the price goes up, and you lower the tax in line, that means you take in the same amount, not less. What idiots

‎”but said that the increase in the price of petrol is largely due to external factors”

Incorrect. For every cent the vendor pays for fuel, the government adds 2.73 cent on top. That means that 66% of the price increase is the governments fault.

Why was my comment yesterday deleted?