{"id":336561,"date":"2026-03-09T07:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T07:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/336561\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T07:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T07:33:09","slug":"supermarkets-would-empty-hospitals-would-struggle-petrol-stations-would-run-out-of-fuel-hauliers-warn-of-crippling-revolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/336561\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Supermarkets would empty, hospitals would struggle, petrol stations would run out of fuel\u2019 \u2013 hauliers warn of crippling revolt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Despite threats, Government says there are no plans for cuts to fuel tax or road tolls\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Prices are already being felt at the pumps. Stock image: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/83124996-a5e4-487b-9ac3-d0cbf8fa5a41.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Prices are already being felt at the pumps. Stock image: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Government is to face down demands for cuts to motorway tolls to ease the impact of surging fuel prices, even as hauliers threaten major blockades of roads and airports in protest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It is also highly unlikely to yield to calls to suspend the carbon tax on fuel, with one minister saying it is the \u201clast thing\u201d he would touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite threats, Government says there are no plans for cuts to fuel tax or road tolls Prices are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2885,943,42,11829,15552,3658,1843,43,6085,70,3415,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-336561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-climate-change","tag-cost-of-living","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-maeve-mctaggart","tag-mary-lou-mcdonald","tag-micheal-martin","tag-news","tag-rte","tag-simon-harris","tag-sinn-fein","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}