Protesters demanding the Irish government slash punishing taxes on fuel, which they say have made global price spikes unbearable for farmers and truckers, are successfully starving the country of fuel, bringing the crisis down to who will blink first in a battle of wills in Dublin.
Ireland is facing a “very dangerous economic moment” as days-long blockades of the nation’s only refinery and depots have seen the Republic on the brink of running out of fuel, the Republic’s Deputy Prime Minister Simon Harris said on Friday evening. By the end of the day, a national industry group estimated that a full third of Ireland’s fuel stations had run dry…
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