"Green" policies are destroying this country

My understanding of Boards.ie is that it is a discussion forum...... You know the kind of place where someone puts forward their thoughts, ideas and opinions. Your`understanding appears to be that it`s a forum where your thoughts ideas and opinions should be excepted unchallenged as sacrosanct.

If that is what Boards.ie is meant for, I very much doubt they would have included a reply function.

You must have missed where there is an energy shortage and one of the reasons is the wind didn't blow enough this year.

This thread will be fun to look at in a few years time. Like the threads about the Dublin Bikes that would NEVER take off or the threads about electric cars and how they'd NEVER become a reality in Ireland.

Excellent points that battery capacity might not be there yet, if said a bit strangely by @jmayo

But in theory if there were to be electric tractors, and other farm machinery going electric of course, with all-day range then surely it's a no-brainer? The argument about running out of battery is a non-runner as you could just as easily run out of diesel

Te above scenario was that the tractor broke down in the middle of a field, not beside diesel pumps

Can you get a 3-phase supply on to a farm these days? If so, fast DC chargers on a farm could be one way forward on that matter. Today you can get ones that charge at 350kW so say a 100kWh battery (which is probably what a tractor would need) would charge to 80% in 14 minutes on today's technology. Enough time for a cup of tea!

Spare charged up batteries would probably be very heavy so not ideal

On today's technology it might not be sustainable but it is only a matter of time and I think it would be a good trade-off to make rather than reducing our national herd

The obsession with carbon rather than other more dangerous pollutants is whats really destroying the country.

Carbon taxes make the convenient polluting options fine if you have money (or a private jet) - but do nothing to tackle the real issues facing us like increasing pollution in waterways, raw sewage still being dumped into our seas, and microplastics being found in trace amounts everywhere. Carbon taxes are simply a money spinner, and a way to control people - a poor person can only "afford" so much carbon, the rich can do as they please, its pennies by comparison.

Same here, I have a load of chillies, beetroot, and I will be harvesting parsnips soon from outside. Watching food grow from seed is pretty great. It's amazing how people jump on every comment ER or a Green Party member makes with such hostility.

No there are just lots of people afraid of any changes and who blame all the countries woes on the Greens, as if they are really powerful. Look at this thread, lots of stuff FG/FF have done over the years being blamed on the Greens now.

That is my thinking too.

Carbon reduction is all well and good but not until we get cancer causing emissions and all the other ones you mention under control.

It's just an dream tax for government as a strong proportion of city dwellers appear to be only too happy to pay.

The greens promoting diesel cars while the same cars spewed out cancer causing gases says it all... Sure they produce less co2.