"Green" policies are destroying this country

The electricity grid is going to collapse with everything the government are promising will be all electric. Our vehicles and heating systems etc.

Looks like they'll be giving a grant to import old Nissan Leafs from England

Yes probably targetting the ones with the sub 100km range because the battery is on the way out.

We sell around 100k-110k new cars in Ireland each year so 950k EVs by 2030 means basically every new car sold from next year must be EV. This year c.8% of car sales were BEV. Fantasy.

Just heard the President of COP26 saying that coal has been consigned to history, was he asleep when the likes of China, India, the USA and Australia the biggest users of coal in the world refused to sign up to it, meanwhile little old Ireland had to close up the 2 peat burning stations just to be best boys in the class, as usual, destroying communities that were built over the years and thousands of jobs lost.

Whatever chance there was of bringing me along with this Green agenda before this COP26, it's finished now after watching this farce of the rich and famous telling us how we have to live our lives while they have their private jets outside, prancing and posing around the place telling us how well things is going and how much they have achieved, while the big polluters stay at home and do nothing only planning to increase output seen that they have no restrictions placed upon them.

Game over for me.

There has to be some class of billing per km travelled introduced for EV's down the line, perhaps logged at NCT and you are then billed per year or when you change ownership of the car.

Even car companies have said they can't produce at that rate due to semi conductor manufacturing issues.

Total pie in the sky.

That's it at the end of the day, but don't worry somewhere down the line people are going to wake up to all this, if not already, wait till a few big gas and electricity bills start coming in, we will just see how green people really are.

https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/6223e-climate-action-plan-2021/

I heard something on the news (too annoyed to pay full attention) about a target of a certain amount of people walking to work per week.

Try tell that to a sizeable bulk of the work-force that have to commute an hour to work every day. What time will they have to leave at every morning? Will they be provided with hi-viz jackets etc?

Ryan is completely in a Dublin-centric bubble and MUST go in the next election. An absolute gobshite of a man.

Could somebody explain this to me. Ireland's main indigenous export is beef and dairy, grass fed beef and dairy. An agricultural product that this country is now going to have to fork out the carbon cost for producing it. The countries that we export it to, and the people who consume it, those people pay none of this cost. But at the same time, other countries, such as Saudi Arabia, who produce products such as crude oil for export, pay absolutely no costs for their massive carbon cost of production, but the countries that import it and consume it, such as us here in Ireland, do. This makes no sense.

Seen Ryan cycling to work today in his white coat, like I mean how many people do you see cycling in winter wearing white,