Irish Examiner - EV target cut by 90%

BlinkingLights

Water John wrote: »

Every Dept. is looking at the next one. Environment, Natural Resources, Ag. The game is called, pass the buck.

The state does have the excuse that it was under an EU/ECB/IMF austerity and sovereignty suspension programme for a number of years and capital spend was basically off the table entirely.

However, there's no longer any excuse for not getting on with it.

two wheels good

bk wrote: »

Quite the opposite, remember it was the Green Party who heavily promoted Diesel cars and reduced the various taxes on them, making us have more Diesel cars then any country in Europe :mad:

The greens haven't a clue what they are talking about!

I'm really tired of hearing this criticism.
How do you think the policy to promote diesels was arrived at? Through the advice of the scientists and the lobbying of the manufacturers .

I saw a UK ex-Chief Scientific Offier in the UK (i.e head scientific advisor to UK govt.) interviewed recently and he was challenged on this point.
His answer was that he went to the test laboratory and saw the tests result and was assured that the benefits would be achieved out in the real-world too.
He stopped short of saying the manufacturers lied but we now know that is exactly what some (many?) of them did.

So complain that politicians were too trusting or didn't insist on real-world testing but complaining it's the Green's Party's fault we have all these stinking diesel is well wide of the mark.

And many other EU countries were duped too - not just IRL.
And the EU is still caving in to lobbying. Only Holland voted against allowing car to exceed limits for many more years. Car manufacturers have succeeded in getting the new emmissions testing regs watered down.

zilog_jones

BlinkingLights wrote: »

Speaking anecdotally, it seems to be quite a high % because landlords only care about the installation and maintenance costs.
Storage heating's very cheap to install but it's horrifically expensive to run. There are a lot of 80s, 90s and 2000s era stuff with electric heating. Typically it's storage heating in the main areas and full-rate normal radiant panels in the bedrooms and electric heating in the bathroom too.

Most may be the cheapo Dimplex wall-mounted storage heaters, but I'm in an apartment with underfloor electric storage heating (in every room except bathroom) and it works quite well with reasonable running costs. I'd rather have this than gas and its associated risks in high-density housing.

unkel

BlinkingLights wrote: »

The state does have the excuse that it was under an EU/ECB/IMF austerity and sovereignty suspension programme for a number of years and capital spend was basically off the table entirely.

However, there's no longer any excuse for not getting on with it.

What I said

zilog_jones wrote: »

I'm in an apartment with underfloor electric storage heating (in every room except bathroom)

The one room in a house where underfloor heating is really useful is,


...the bathroom