{"id":481,"date":"2012-08-27T07:28:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T07:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/government-must-address-spiralling-fuel-prices-crowe\/"},"modified":"2012-08-27T07:28:24","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T07:28:24","slug":"government-must-address-spiralling-fuel-prices-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/government-must-address-spiralling-fuel-prices-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Government must address spiralling fuel prices \u2013 Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Government must address spiralling fuel prices \u2013 Crowe<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has called on the  Government to intervene to address the issue of rising fuel prices and  the implications this is having on jobs, consumers and the wider  economy.<\/p>\n<p>Crowe said that the increase in fuel costs will mean motorists will have to pay an extra \u20ac1,000 per year<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Crowe said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHard-pressed motorists are again facing spiralling fuel costs with  predictions of the price of petrol reaching a record high of \u20ac1.70 per  litre with diesel already reaching \u20ac1.65 at some pumps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is likely that the hike in petrol and diesel will mean that the  average motorist will pay an extra \u20ac1,000 a year to run their car  compared with just two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a number of reasons put forward for this unprecedented  increase including the weakness of the Euro against the Dollar and  tensions in the Middle East but Government taxes are by far the biggest  factor. A whopping 60 per cent of the retail price of petrol is made up  of taxes levied by the State and this is happening at a time when  families are struggling to pay for the most basic household items.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRising fuel prices on garage forecourts means more expensive haulage  costs that will inevitably be passed on to hard pressed consumers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bulk of motorists are dependent on their car to travel to work,  particularly as our public transport is often unreliable, impractical,  or plain non-existent. In most rural areas, having access to your own  mode of transport is absolutely necessary and it is simply not good  enough for Finance Minister Michael Noonan to wash his hands of this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis issue must be addressed urgently as the cost that is being  passed on to drivers is resulting in significant hardship, affecting the  economy and in the long run costing jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government must address spiralling fuel prices \u2013 Crowe The Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has called on the Government to intervene to address the issue of rising fuel prices and the implications this is having on jobs, consumers and the wider economy. Crowe said that the increase in fuel costs will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}