IEThe Irish Times
Temporary excise tax cuts undermine the greening of Ireland’s transport
Fossil fuel price rises on the back of Iran war have delivered surge in EV sales, so why blunt the message?
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- 24 Aug 2026, 05:09 UTC
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- 24 Aug 2026, 18:40 UTC
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- Publisher
- The Irish Times
- Country
- Ireland
- Source published
- 24 Aug 2026, 05:00 UTC
- Source updated
- No update timestamp supplied
- Byline
- John FitzGerald
- Section
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Fossil fuel price rises on the back of Iran war have delivered surge in EV sales, so why blunt the message?
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Temporary excise tax cuts undermine the greening of Ireland’s transport
Fossil fuel price rises on the back of Iran war have delivered surge in EV sales, so why blunt the message?
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- Capture ID
- #1874
- Observed
- 24 Aug 2026, 05:09 UTC
- HTTP result
- 200 / parsed
- Raw payload
- 862,102 bytes, private gzip evidence
- Collector
- news-ledger/0.1
- Public boundary
- metadata and excerpt