- cross-posted to:
- fuel_crisis@piefed.social
- cross-posted to:
- fuel_crisis@piefed.social
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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.
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?
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.
Do you have an American embassy in your country? I recommend starting there.
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.
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
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.
When it’s not your fault, yet you do what USA was supposed to do.
