"Green" policies are destroying this country

Well its certainly not helping. However the current crisis started well before February 24th 2022

From October 2021

Why Europe's energy prices are soaring and could get much worse

A series of market, geographic and political factors have coalesced into a perfect storm that shows no signs of abetting as the continent enters the autumn season, temperatures gradually decrease and heating becomes indispensable.

Analysts are already warning the crisis, which is exacerbated by a mixture of temporary and structural problems, will be prolonged and the worst may yet to come

Except as we've now been discussing for weeks - wind generation is a not reliable form of energy generation and that despite the majority of Ireland Renewable energy presently coming from wind generation.

And to cater for that we need a safe, secure and reliable alternative source of energy generation. Presently that means gas as per EU directives and agreements - and that's LNG and/or our own natural gas. Just waiting for the greens to get their collective fingers out so we can do that

yea covid has completely knotted up global supply chains, including global energy markets

yup, this could get very very scary very very quickly!

Agreed

The economy runs on diesel.

If we run out we are snookered a lot quicker than the effects of climate change! (I fully appreciate climate change is real and will have a terrible effect, but running out of diesel will get here quicker)

Third time now in a row that you have included a post from another poster in a reply to me, where that other post has nothing to do with my post you are supposedly replying to. What`s that all about ?

I have already mentioned to you that you have been making thinly veiled allegations here for quite some time now of posters being re-regs and/or of having numerous accounts. Is this just another of the same from you being directed specifically at me ?

Btw. your reply to my post is just another of your evasion attempts. What you termed as a "seemingly a successful Tidal project in Northern Ireland" in your scramble to push tidal as some sort of substitute for LNG was scrapped 6 years ago.

probably because our energy systems are designed for fossil fuels, and its been the cheaper energy supply, more energy dense, and trading is known to reduce conflicts....

it would make sense that fossil fuel industries would do everything in their power to slow down, ideally prevent alternatives from being developed, until fossil fuel exhaustion, as by doing so would maximize their returns, and maintain their dominance, power and control

again, scaling up of wind would mean more energy independence, as its clearly obvious now, energy dependence is going to continue to become more problematic, and potentially more dangerous, if we truly run out of energy, we re fcuked, do you really want to be more dependent on other countries for this critical need? wind is our natural resource, other countries such as germany still have major fossil fuel resources, we dont!

The whole green agenda is just another way for the globalists of the world to exert control and to make the poor and middle class struggle even more. They were asking the question "should SUVs be banned" on the radio earlier! The World Economic Forum have said they are proud to be "penetrating the cabinets" of the world, so their agenda can infiltrate governments and government policy.

Climate change - changed from "global warming" of course - sounds like something reasonable to feel threatened by. Therefore, it's a great vehicle for introducing restrictions, limitations and for rethinking how we do things - all in the name of the "greater good". They don't want people driving cars, using fossil fuels or even owning their own homes. The head of PayPal (a WEF partner, just like zillions of other companies) in Ireland actually said some years back that property ownership is not sustainable.

Of diesel or actual oil?

reassuring if it is 90 days of diesel.

I would never confuse what a company does for their benefit and the benefit of their shareholders, with it being driven with the benefit of it`s customers their primary aim.

Especially when you see the E.U. now urging individual countries to impose windfall taxes on the profits of energy firms. Profits that the E.U. itself has been largely responsible for from its marginal pricing model.

Why do people here keep saying install more wind turbines to solve our electrical needs.

Ffs the tech has been around since what the 18th century.

If it was that simple we would have done this a 100 years ago.

Its not the all its claimed to be.

Yes harness as much renewables as we can but any dumbass can see the flaws in that logic.

You really don't understand what you're talking about

The 'Marginal pricing' refers to the wholescale price of electricity in real time. Lets say it's a sunny and windy day, and we have installed the right amount of solar and wind to generate all the electricity we need and all of the gas plants are turned off. The price of gas has zero influence on the cost of electricity in this scenario.

Its only when there is a need for fossil fuel backup, that the wholesale price considers the cost of that gas.

As more renewable capacity along with load balancing and compensators from batteries coming on stream, we'll need gas less and less often to cover peaks, or when there there is a prolonged deficit in renewable generation

So if we need gas 50% of the time in 2020, but only 10% of the time in 2030, then even if gas prices are 5 times more expensive, our bills will stay the same.

If on the other hand we invest in more gas facilities, and fail to invest in renewables, we will be paying 5 times more than we are now in our electricity bills.

call me mental, but maybe these companies and advisors have already thought of all of this, maybe!

We face an energy crisis because for decades we knew about climate change, and did next to nothing, and now we're faced with a rapid change that requires drastic action

Your solution to the gas price crisis is to burn more coal. I propose we quit dragging our heels, take some of the pain now instead of constantly dodging it and lumping it onto the next generation

The difference between climate change and an acute energy crisis, is that climate change is essentially permanent and gets worse and worse over time

There have been energy crisis before, Fuel stations have run dry, factories have closed, people rationed fuel, it was bad, people genuinely suffered, but it passed and we moved on and it became a footnote in most people's life story. Climate change is very different, it's incipid, it festers because something else is always a higher priority in the moment, until it gets to a point when we decide we really must start dealing with it, and find out it's too late and we've lost everything