"Green" policies are destroying this country

May not be a problem for much longer as public tolerance of the nonsense of carbon taxes will reach peak levels in a month. If this government imposes additional carbon taxes in May, they're fecked. Expect the ears of every TD to be severely & repeatedly burnt.

those that cant wont, those that can, might

Yet are expected to pay for other peoples upgrades when they can’t afford it themselves?

yes, there will always be some in society that simply will never be able to afford such needs, hence our creation of the welfare system, but we ve put impossible limitations in place to maintain this, we ll have to urgently change these limitations, as the workforce simply cannot pay for it all, we still havent truly accepted these limitations, and the urgent need to change them....

I did not refer to "the rising price of gas". I detailed the costs relating to electricity generation, electricity prices, the current policy towards that and future security of supply

But I guess from what you're saying that despite your protests here - you don't agree with Mr Ryans policies providing additional gas generation plants no? You better let him know you know better. We have more renewables than ever and yet with the EU green marginal price policy for energy costs - electricity prices have never been higher. Go figure.

And as detailed it's already been shown that a safe, secure and reliable source of natural gas is needed to provide stability with regard to renewable energy generation over the next 30 years. To do that we need to avail of our own available and known resources and reserves and/or LNG. Which bit do you not understand?

The cost of any LNG facility will be covered by whichever company has contracted to build the facility , and whilst the price of gas will be the same as other sources of gas as per the market at that point - what that does ensure is a security of supply as highlighted by the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities

"All of this has been explained to you many many times. And you accuse others of "ranting". Give us a break.

Why what's the problem - are you seriously suggesting the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities is lying?

I quoted the relevant section. Go off and dig up the entirety of it if you really are interested. And I don't know what articles you've been reading about Barryroe but I'd suggest you do a bit of research about a) the estimated end date of the corrib gas field and b) the plan of extraction for Barryroe if and when Eamon gets his finger out of his hole. Which of course is exactly what is currently holding up the entire project. But more importantly the issue is not necessarily the immediacy of any start date for extraction, rather that we need a safe, secure and reliable source of natural gas for the next 30 years up to 2050 and beyond. The sooner we get started on that the better

Unfortunately I have no choice.

wealth distribution is a highly complex beast globally, not just here, yes wealthier individuals definitely should be paying higher taxes, again, not just here, but globally, but wealth is also accumulating in wealthy institutions and corporations etc. theres clearly a strong resistance to increasing taxation on these wealthy entities, and the fact, even trying to do so, its bloody complicated, due to the ease of movement of capital globally. taxation alone also wont solve these issues, wealth is generally stored in the value of assets such as property and land, but yet we re still strongly opposed to appropriately taxing this wealth, this resistance also exists in the so called political left, this to needs to be urgently dealt with. asset ownership is also a major issue, as it is tending towards a skewed profile, again this is generally how we store wealth, but is we continue towards this skewing, we still have a major problem, i.e. we need to find functioning ways to spread this ownership, known methods are available to us, but yet we still resist their implementation.. taxation alone wont solve this, we also need to embrace rising public debt, or we re probably fcuked!

One that is not short on brain farts either.

I do not know why the Greens are so opposed to Nuclear. It seems the obvious solution. There is no way that solar, hydro and wind are going to satiate our energy requirements as a country

It would take a hell of a lot of solar panels to make up the remaining 88%. Especially when you consider they add nothing during nighttime and we have Winters with long nights and weak daytime sunshine.