{"id":5527,"date":"2026-03-04T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=5527"},"modified":"2026-03-04T16:52:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:52:00","slug":"households-face-rip-off-fuel-hikes-as-fianna-fail-fine-gael-refuse-to-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/households-face-rip-off-fuel-hikes-as-fianna-fail-fine-gael-refuse-to-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Households face rip-off fuel hikes as Fianna F\u00e1il-Fine Gael refuse to act"},"content":{"rendered":"Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has said that families are being hammered by massive increases in the cost of home heating oil and fuel, accusing energy companies of exploiting the crisis in the Middle East to drive up prices while the government refuses to intervene.<br \/><br \/>Teachta Crowe said:<br \/><br \/>\u201cPeople have been contacting me in shock at the huge jump in the price of home heating oil and fuel in recent days. Some have seen quotes going up by 80% since Monday. <br \/><br \/>\u201cSome households are reporting increases of hundreds of euros for a delivery of heating oil, while motorists are also seeing sharp hikes at the pumps.<br \/><br \/>\u201cFamilies were already under enormous financial pressure.  Now companies appear to be exploiting international events to squeeze even more profit out of households who are already struggling.<br \/><br \/>\u201cThe government should be hauling the bosses of these companies in and demanding answers. They need to make it clear that exploiting a crisis to fleece households will not be tolerated.<br \/><br \/>\u201cYesterday in the D\u00e1il the Taoiseach acknowledged that there is \u2018no excuse\u2019 for price gouging. In the very same breath, he doubled down on the government\u2019s plan to increase carbon tax.<br \/><br \/>\u201cThat tells you everything you need to know about how out of touch this government is with the pressure people are under.<br \/><br \/>\u201cInstead of simply asking regulators to review the market, the government must take direct action to protect households.<br \/><br \/>\u201cFamilies cannot be left at the mercy of companies hiking prices while the government sits on its hands.<br \/><br \/>\u201cFianna F\u00e1il-Fine Gael need to intervene to stop this rip-off and scrap plans to increase carbon tax that will only drive up the cost of heating homes even further.<br \/><br \/>\u201cWorkers and families need to know that their government has their back. Right now, families feel like they are on their own.<br \/><br \/>\u201cThat has to change and it has to change quickly.\u201d <br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has said that families are being hammered by massive increases in the cost of home heating oil and fuel, accusing energy companies of exploiting the crisis in the Middle East to drive up prices while the government refuses to intervene. Teachta Crowe said: \u201cPeople have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5527","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=5527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5528,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5527\/revisions\/5528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}