"Green" policies are destroying this country

hahahaha, cause we re all rational and informed purchasers!

They've stopped importing diesel models of certain cars some with huge brand loyalty, so someone who's owned a Toyota Corolla of some variety since a DX in 1984 is going to trade their 17/18 1.4d Auris/Corolla for a new hybrid one, 25year old tech, no worries about chargers or range .natural progression rather ID betamax from VW

Absolutely ridiculous but if you feel so strong about this noble case do so voluntarily.

Why should I be happy with paying multiple times more than other people who pollute multiple times more.

Here is one of the illusions being promulgated about random energy - the sun shines somewhere else or the wind blows somewhere else the government should just build a supergrid using long transmission lines to allow enough transfer of electricity between locations to mostly offset random generation.

That illusion got destroyed by reality in 2021. The Germans have a word for it 'Dunkelflaut' or in English dark doldrums. The lack of wind generation across Europe in 2021 was a major contributing factor to our electricity bills this Winter. (even China had a lack of wind) It does not matter how many operational turbines exist, when there is no wind, there is no generation and this happens on a large scale at once across Europe. The other problem with the Supergrid as Norwegian consumers found out is the price of their cheap hydro power generated electricity got bid up by the Germans (and soon the Brits) due to the nature of random energy generation.

Unfortunately, a recent bill put forward by the Greens to ban LNG is completely naff. Ireland needs an LNG plant full stop fact. The NIMBY folks are so far removed from reality they do need to see how disingenuous their mindset is. Gas without a safe supply will go crackers in cost in 5-10 years with no LNG supply.

PS I am not in the mood for the 'but what about the environment debate'

I reckon the single biggest demonstration by the greens of how exactly they don't give a fuq for people in this country is their gloating over the shutting down of all future new gas exploration anywhere in Ireland and its territorial waters.

And this despite Ireland now being hugely dependent on imported gas for propping up the **** show that is renewable energy generation.

https://www.greenparty.ie/green-party-welcomes-immediate-ban-on-new-oil-and-natural-gas-exploration/

Meanwhile in Norway

https://www.offshore-energy.biz/norway-offers-offshore-licences-to-28-oil-gas-firms-amid-great-interest/

It's the same thing we do as usual in this country... virtue-signalling nonsense regardless of how little sense it makes in the real world.

Taxing everyone to the hilt and trying to force them to live like peasants who own nothing, and/or trying to be made feel guilty for not wanting to work for no reward - and all for nothing more than "de feelz" while the likes of China, India and elsewhere do whatever they like.

"But, but.. we signed up to it/the EU requires it" - so what?? We saw during the Financial Crisis that the EU's "rules" can be bent, ignored or just torn up overnight if the right political pressure is brought to bear!

Sick of it at this stage. We really need to grow up as a country and get over this national inferiority complex that needs constant validation and attaboys from our "betters"

Well okay DaCor, if it concerns you enough I can tell you in two minutes what you could look up yourself in the space of two seconds. The Irish 'Green Party' is ultimately aligned politically and ideologically to the European EFA, The European Green Party and the Global Green coalition. These groups, in total, come from the most powerful and most successful 'Green' party in the 30 years of their collective existence - Alliance 90/Greens, The most powerful German green party which de-facto makes it most powerful 'Green' political party on the planet. Alliance 90 sets the agenda for the other parties within the 'Global Green' coalition to follow. This is no secret. Alliance 90 make no bones about it on their federal or state sanctioned electoral manifesto's, which you can look up for yourself. This is what they, the Alliance 90 claim, and the Irish 'Green Party' make no claims that their manifesto or agenda is the sole work of Eamon Ryan or anybody else based in Ireland, so who are we to believe? You? With your naive assertion that Alliance 90 have literally nothing to do with 'Global Green' policy? Just because it obviously doesn't suit your naive attitude to what is happening within our own nation?

What evidence would suit you? Do you want me to get Ricarda Lang up in here to literally tell you on a zoom call what is in her own political parties manifestos and agenda's that you can literally check out for yourself? Do you want me to wipe your own ar$e to go with it?