Diesel, petrol, oil price watch

[RadioGAAGAA]

If there isn't something done in the immediate term with the price of green diesel,  the construction sector in particular is on the verge of collapse.

It is unsustainable for groundwork crews in particular on the bigger sites to keep going. I don't think the average person realises how much fuel the bigger diggers, dumpers and tipper trucks consume on a daily basis.

It's no different for the big lorries or tractors. In fact, they're likely far worse than any digger or dumper short of a big Volvo BM or similar.

A self-propelled harvester has a tank of ~1000 litres as standard, or ~1500 litres as optional. It could burn all that in a (long) day.

An artic lorry will do around 10 mpg.


Two examples of scary exposure to diesel prices beyond just the site.

[jb77]

Volvo loading shovel during my uni days job was burning 35-40 litres an hour, talking an extra 250-300 per shift with the prices now

[Captain Scarlet]

That's the thing. The groups, including Construction Federation, should have all come together and done a media blitz spelling all this out.
This machine costs X to run. And then link it to house building in a housing crisis.

Instead the headbangers jumped in and said effed it up.
As I keep saying these are the same lads roaring at the top table of every organisation they are in.

[Baile Brigín 2]

The black and tan vermin back out so

Only tan round here is you, you horrible bollox.

He genuinely doesn't realise his beloved protesters were infiltrated immediately, if not in advance, by UDA adjacent flag knobs. But the Gardai, who pussyfooted around for a week, are the Tans?

I've been at the Dundalk and Monaghan protests and yet to see any UDA type scum there, just ordinary decent people who are sick of being shafted, yes I totally accept that there is a scummy far right element in places and what happened with the Muslim sisters of Eire is disgraceful but it is a tiny tiny proportion.

So we have gone from the far right not being involved and anyone suggesting it is a liar to them being a little bit involved in a couple of days.

It's up to you if you want to join in protests that are only a little bit UDA controlled.

[Armagh18]

Unbelievable restraint shown by protestors against the garda vermin with their pepperspray and balaclavas.

[gallsman]

Garda vermin now. Bet you're a big Aaron Brady fan too.

[Rossfan]

Marches in Carrick and Ros town today.
I wonder who in those 2 towns  set fuel prices??
There must be a tricolour factory in the area with the amount of them being carried.
They'd never be nasty nazifascists?

[Armagh18]

Marches in Carrick and Ros town today.
I wonder who in those 2 towns  set fuel prices??
There must be a tricolour factory in the area with the amount of them being carried.
They'd never be nasty nazifascists?

Must be some amount of Nazifascists in the country so.

Comments like that do nothing only help the far right.

[Baile Brigín 2]

Garda vermin now. Bet you're a big Aaron Brady fan too.

We have two interesting things colliding here.

The traditional farmer belief that they can protest how they want and nobody say boo, which has a long tradition. Genuine surprise that the state actually moved against them. We have a newer far right belief that they can protest how they want and the Gardai avoid dealing with them and genuine outrage that the state moved against them.

I get the farmers bewilderment, the reality that they aren't the sectoral force they used to be hasn't hit home yet, but the flaggers are a self delusion of epic proportions.

As as been said before. If the left blockaded Shannon in opposition to Gaza, the animal rights guys abattoirs, the environmental guys oil refineries, Republicans the British embassy, middle aged women a Debenhams warehouse and so on, their skulls would have been instantly cracked.

The sense of entitlement and delusion they speak for all of us was pungent here.

[Baile Brigín 2]

Marches in Carrick and Ros town today.
I wonder who in those 2 towns  set fuel prices??
There must be a tricolour factory in the area with the amount of them being carried.
They'd never be nasty nazifascists?

Must be some amount of Nazifascists in the country so.

Comments like that do nothing only help the far right.

You are almost, accidentally, onto something. A relatively small, well organised group of bedwetters caused absolute mayhem.

Like the Yellow Vests it will fizzle out because the leadership are mental, corrupt and hate each other. But if a cadre of leaders with a strategic thought to share emerge we may have serious problems in future.

[Tubberman]

Unbelievable restraint shown by protestors against the garda vermin with their pepperspray and balaclavas.

Living up to the south Armagh stereotype

[Armagh18]

Unbelievable restraint shown by protestors against the garda vermin with their pepperspray and balaclavas.

Living up to the south Armagh stereotype

[PadraicHenryPearse]

scary times

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXBvGdEDe4X/?igsh=d3YwN2xkZHJhYmUz

[Rossfan]

Perennial Freight, which is based in Rosslare Europort, has said that his trucks have been parked up since Friday because of the fuel protests.

"We would have, on a normal day, between 100 and 110 deliveries in Ireland," Chris Smyth told RTÉ's This Week programme.

"We've done no deliveries or collections since last Friday. And right now all our trucks are parked up for Monday morning.

"We can't get into the port.

"Our depot is inside the cordon, so we can't get access to our yard to fuel our trucks or get our drivers into the base.

"We've collections done since last Friday that need to get to the port to ship out to the UK and to Europe and we've imports from the UK and Europe to be picked up to deliver tomorrow morning.

"So it's had a huge impact on our business," he said.

Mr Smyth estimates that the disruption so far has cost his business around €300,000 in revenue and could be as high as €500,000 by tomorrow if the blockade is not lifted.

The group employs nearly 180 people in Ireland and Europe.

"We've lots of people employed in the business but a lot of customers depending on us as well," he said.

"If we can't get our deliveries away to them tomorrow morning, there's certainly going to be issues with their production.

"We've already been told by some of our clients that if we can't deliver product to them tomorrow morning, they're going to have to cease production and probably leave staff go.

"We've also been told by some of the exporters that can't get collections done by us, that they're now building up stock and have no warehouse space and they're going to have to stall production."



More innocent victims of the bullying boys

[Wildweasel74]

Doing it for the people by blocking the people daily routines. Bit like flag protests, out for themselves. I didnt see any protests with food prices rocketing past 3/4yrs. Plus not 1 word of protesting at Trumps Golf course, or US/Israel embassys who caused the recent rocketing fuel and oil prices.