"Green" policies are destroying this country

I haven`t the first notion what you are attempting to say.

A manifesto is a commitment to voters that if they vote for a party, the policies in that manifesto are those that party will endeavour to enact.

I thought it was safe to assume that with the banning of exploration licences and the banning of fracked LNG having to be accepted before they would sign the Programme for Government, that the same was included in their manifesto, but perhaps not.

Sounds like you may believe they came up with that on the fly and were not endorsed by their voters to do so. You may be correct. After all the Programme for Government condition was for fracked LNG and the bill being proposed is for all LNG.

If it bothers you then maybe take it up with the Green party. Far as I`m concerned it`s their policy now to ban all LNG and they have already sponsored the bill that banned exploration license. Both of which I find make no sense,, and so it seems do green supporters here, as none of them can explain the logic behind either.

Found a great thread about how great green party policies are for anyone promoting same. Seems madly popular altogether 😅

Dashboard was at 8% renewable last night, which would likely be Hydro, not a wind turbine turning.

5% this morning and the Greens say this should be the only power source,

A massive 0.9% of current demand is being met by wind.

Would now be an awkward time to remind people that nuclear has 96% availability - 350 days of 24/7 reliable power generation per year at zero CO2 and which lasts for 60 years, for a cost less than that of offshore wind, which only has 52% availabilty - 190 - days a year, and lasts for 50 years at best. The irony is that one of these is thought of as cheap while the other is thought of as expensive, and it's the exact opposity one of that which the numbers favour.

Imagine if energy policy decision making were done blind, where the sources are kept secret from government with just the basic numbers given, so to hide the 44% availability difference, which would be a giveaway, you would add to that source the costs of 60 years worth of gas plants and the cost of the gas - remember it's already more expensive even before you do this.

Then the government picks one based on the data and are bound by the decision before the great reveal as to the source.

10years of electric bills to pay for that and as you aren't using it and the ESB will never take it off you, what's the point?

Not really. Costing issues are hardly unique to renewable projects.

Ireland's problem is a de-facto zero energy policy, with existing infrastructure being run down before there is any hope of sufficient replacements coming online.

Well there is that, but in most countries there would be calls to fix such a problem. Imagine telling your boss they shouldn't be expecting you to do a job they wanted done because you are completely useless. Start looking for a new job.

Has anybody calculated the real emissions and environmental damage caused in creating all the "renewable energy" and electric cars etc.

Why do you keep bring up the Irish Green Party`s website as if it was some sort of middle ages Papal Bull that had to be adhered to to avoid excommunication ? Although with your refusal to answer anything in relation to Irish Green Party edicts I`m leaning towards the possibility that for their supporters it actually may be.

We do not need to go trawling through their website to know what their position was on exploration licenses or LNG. That was subsequently made that clear on their conditions in the Programme for Government and the passing of their sponsored bill on exploration and the now proposal in another bill to ban LNG. A proposal that has now morphed from fracked LNG in their Programme for Government demands to all forms of LNG and not as you stated fracked LNG.

The question that you have been jumping through hoops attempting to avoid has nothing to do with their website. Or indeed anything to do with their demands in the Programme for Government. It is a simple question to you as a supporter of the Irish Green Party. Do you agree with them on both these two issues, and with our own natural gas fields close to depletion and the current crisis in relation to natural gas, if you do then can you tell us where you see it making any kind of logical sense.

As to your last paragraph could you also clarif,y rather than posting something and then leave it hanging. Are you accusing me of having a number of different accounts on Boards.ie or that I am a rereg ?

They have for EV's, for which the manufacturing of is responsible for 50% higher CO2 release than the manufacture of an ICE car.