"Green" policies are destroying this country

Sure you did bud 🤣 I've already insulated the attic and have a gas combi boiler but still have to cough up the carbon taxes. Still waiting for your suggestions.

Social houses and those on welfare are getting this all fully paid for to get deep retro fitting done. For the average punter who goes out to work the best suggestion, as per this thread, is buy yourself a few rolls of insulation and maybe a few extra jumpers for the winter.

The big issue with carbon taxes is that they are supposed to encourage change, to look at other options. But for many citizens, there either are no options like public transport to get them to school, work, shops and even where there are possible options like EVs or house refits, they are prohibitively expensive. If the plan is to switch energy use to electricity, well we know we have supply problems in the next few years at least. So encouraging more loading on the esb networks is daft at the moment.

If carbon taxes are levied on heating & motor fuels, the reality is that there should be carbon taxes on electricity as well - since a good proportion of electricity is still generated from fossil fuels. What's the point is charging up your fancy EV with elec generated from gas? I'm looking out the window here at the industrial scale windfarm across the way and the blades are barely turning on a few of the giant turbines.

Heaping carbon taxes on recent increases in motor and heating fuels is just plain politically daft. This government will not be around to answer questions in the future as rural Ireland will f*** them out of power next election.

The only thing that might save their bacon in this regard is another national lockdown for Covid, as citizens will then be confined and unable to travel any great distances.

Also **** rural ireland all decided to live in the middle of nowhere and to be totally car reliant and difficult to provide services to. I'm sick to death listening to them whingeing about everything, you made your own bungalow blight mess.

I don’t which ‘rural’ you’ve experienced, but in my neck of the woods rural yes people are driving around in diesel cars, having their septic tanks emptied into the local farmers slurry pit, and burning their household rubbish on Sunday mornings.

The only person I know with geothermal had to have an oil boiler installed as a boost a few years ago. It’s been an expensive mistake for them, vastly underperformed what was promised.