We've been told by the Government that the reason we have carbon tax is to push fuel to a price that people move away from carbon fuels and into sustainable energy, but in actual fact, if the international market is already creating that high price, there's no need for those carbon taxes.
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We want to introduce dynamic pricing to petrol, diesel, agricultural diesel, and home heating oil. How this will work will be that when petrol and diesel reach €1.90 on international prices, cent per cent, the price of carbon tax will come…
Indeed, I would say the Government is incinerating taxpayers' money at a rate in those terms.
The fuel crisis is the biggest issue that has been encapsulating this country in the last six months.
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