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17 thoughts on “Pump Up The Jam”

    1. Mr. T

      The government are happy to let people burn holes in their pockets driving everywhere than investing in a single new rail line.

      Vested interest of course, think of all the VAT on fuel

    2. John Smith

      ‘Public traaaansport’

      All well and good, perhaps, if you live in a city or in some large towns. However, for a great number of people, there’s a journey, possible of several miles, to get to the public transport in the first place. Even then, it doesn’t go to where you need to go or at the times you need to go or come back or quickly enough to allow you to get to the next place you have to go. Try using public transport to get to a 9am hospital appointment in Castlebar, if you live at Blacksod or Devlin! No public transport system that would meet the needs of these people could ever be financially viable and the one available at present certainly doesn’t allow them to do without a car – either their own or a friend’s. Moving house is not an option for most of them, either.

      1. Gavin

        Thats the point though…we need more ‘Public traaaansport’ and cycle lanes. So that people have the option to use it. But we are decades away from that because government is just listening to the motor lobby groups

        1. John Smith

          @Gavin

          The point I’m making is that a great number of people will NEVER have the option to use public transport because a system that provided for their needs would not be financially viable – ever! Three people, say, going from the same place but to three different places and at three different times cannot hope to have public transport to take them unless there are lots of other people travelling, too – and there aren’t lots of people to travel if you live in the country. or in a lot of small towns and villages. Public transport, in that sense, is a luxury they will rarely enjoy, no matter how much more public transport is provided.

          1. Rob_G

            If someone makes the decision to move 10 miles from the nearest village, they do so in the knowledge that they will be completely dependent on their cars. The government can hardly be expected to provide a 24/7 bus/tram service to Ballygobackwards (one that would only be used when oil goes over $100 a barrel) – you pay your money, you take your chances.

          2. scottser

            And yet Rob, you are the very one advocating that people on the dole be moved out of Dublin to areas like this.

          3. John Smith

            @ Rob
            ‘If someone makes the decision to move 10 miles from the nearest village’

            A lot of people have not made that choice – they are where they have always been and moving is often not an option. In any case, it is only in towns that public transport generally becomes viable as the sole means of travel. Villages are just as likely to have little or no public transport as the open countryside. If you are living where public transport is not available because there are comparatively few people, you don’t expect it to be provided but you do expect people, especially the Government, to understand that you are dependent on private transport and to take that into account when deciding on policies.

          4. Rob_G

            @scottser good callback!

            In fact I was advocating that unemployed people be provided with accommodation in one of the many towns and villages with good public transport links, where housing is a lot cheaper and has greater availability than in Dublin – there are actually urban areas outside of Dublin, you know.

            @John

            Every decision made by every adult involves choice. What you seem to be suggesting is that urban dwellers, who already subsididse rural dwellers in myriad ways – see here for a non-exhaustive list – should put the hand in the pocket once again to fund the lifestyle choices of rural dwellers, in order that they can continue to live in bigger houses, in splendid isolation.

            Thanks, but no thanks.

  4. Fearganainm

    “A crowd of us were going along the Shepherd’s Bush Road when out of a lane came a chap with a donkey — just the sort of donkey and just the sort of cart they have at home. He came out quite suddenly and abruptly and we all cheered him. Nobody who has not been in exile will understand me, but I stand for that.”

    ~ Michael Collins

  5. Dinkum

    Where are they getting their numbers from diesel used to be 10cent a litre before the price gouging
    So it’s going to cost diesel drivers a hell of a lot more
    I fill up once a week and drive locally so it was €30.00 per fill up more this week than when the Ukrainian war started
    And it’s going higher and that includes the tax reduction that lasted one hour
    So let’s double that €700 euro and add on more
    What’s needed is a spot check as to when garages got their supplies and what they paid and when they put up the prices
    A serious message must be sent to these garages and since government locked us all up in the lock down taking away our civil rights to work they can move mountains
    Immediate laws must be introduced to stop price gouging and swat teams sent out each days to monitor price charges
    Of course price gouging has a plus side for government
    21% of it is returned to them in VAT

  6. Jonner

    that’s nothing compared to the thousands people are losing in depreciation of their e-cars

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