"Green" policies are destroying this country

My goodness such venom for a group protesting against recent fuel price rises and looking for price caps

From above

"Another shower of useless p** ****"

"As I said, fudgin hilarious in the extreme. They're a bunch of idiots, nothing more."

"these clowns will be blocking up and costing everyone money."

"Just paying for fuel seems to be the latest thing they want for free"

"It's likely a front group for a bunch of wingnuts and conspiracy theorists."

"It will be the usual group looking for a fight….shower of wasters"

But hey keep it classy guys 😄

Nah just pointing out the misinformation posted.

But whether you're support / backing them or not, it's likely these are some of the same people "hurting" and "working and trying to earn living"

"I’m sure you will get confused about that as well like every other topic"

What's with the continued digs and personal abuse?

Well Akraisia first I'd ask what has the UK got to do with here? There seems to be a lot of confusion regarding UK regulations and UK groups in this thread.

What I wouldn't do is call them "p*****" or the other select language used in this thread against Irish people protesting about the rampant price increases in fuel and home heating oil. But the general gist seems to be fuk people here right?

The XR protests are about a better future for the people of this planet. The dublin protest tomorrow is about a better now for people trying to make more for themselves

They're demanding that I pay their fuel bill through my taxes. That I pay my taxes to despots so they can have cheaper fuel than they had a decade ago

Nobody is proposing the kind of world you are imagining via your warped conspiracy theories.

How did that come about? I don't think many were expecting the murderous intensity of the Khmer Rouge to destroy technological civilization and with it most of the people, to return to a stone age, where the unpleasant (to them) egalitarianism brought about by technology and energy are banished forever.  If you want to spare the time read the city is dead editorial from the July 1975 edition of the Ecologist magazine. It will shock you, though perhaps not.

Consider the effect of decades of relentless propaganda has had on people and that some of them actually take on a conviction that they perceive themselves in a climate emergency and they must act NOW! and by taking the law into their own hands. They must save the planet from humanity, they must kill the "climate deniers". In their heads the climate emergency is an existential crisis therefore the ends justify the means. Mix that up with yet another variant of Marxism and suddenly you have a group of individuals who coalesce as organisations like extinction rebellion.  We will see the emergence of the Khmer Verts who want to bring about their vision of green utopia.

But why was there rationing in WW2?
Because there wasn't enough to go around.

And that is key there was not enough to go around because economic resources were directed to war. Carbon rationing is not being proposed becaue of scarcity it is to deliberately cut consumption. At a Climate Change Communications workshop presented at DCU in 2016. In reply to Duncan Stewarts question (49 minutes in), professor Kevin Anderson tells them not to call it rationing, however, that's exactly what "personal carbon allowances" are. If you look around the you will probably recognise some of the heads present. Professor Anderson is one of the people who advises Greta Thunberg, he spouts plenty of his own conspiracies during that presentation in 2016.

• It's Time to Consider Carbon Rationing, and All That That Entails
• Q&A: Carbon Rationing Explained
• ‘Get used to using the washing machine less, and watch the immersion’ – carbon budgets warning

Thanks for that DaCor. And I see you're another Irish examiner fan, which is great. However same issue as before btw and to quote just in case anyone doesn't believe it

Google's "first click free" program allows Google News or Google search user to find and read articles, even if they are behind a subscription paywall.

However:

when a user clicks on a link... the publisher can show a payment or registration request. 

So while you can read pretty much any such paywalled article by searching for it, if you go directly to an article from a link - you'll likley hit a paywall.

Unfortunately just like that comment above. Nothing to do with the poster clicking the link as some have thought 🤷‍♂️

A brief summary would be good regardless.

As there seems to be a constant look towards to the UK in this discussion here's another one.

Anyone here raging at the idea of people protesting against the increases in the price of fuel and its impacts on the cost of living are going to beside themselves at this one!

The Big Power Switch Off in the UK described by organisers as a 'non-partisan' protest with the aim of highlighting unreasonably high energy prices in the UK.

The protest is aiming to create an imbalance in the National Grid demand as the ten-minute blackout is then followed by everyone turning their lights and other devices back on all at once

"To protect the grid, power stations will be temporarily disconnected or issued notices to attenuate their output." They added: “Because the grid is publicly owned, but power supply is private, this effectively creates a 10 minute boycott of the privatised portions of our power supply, losing them up to an estimated £9m in revenue.

“That's right, private energy companies take in an estimated £9m every 10 minutes in UK!" They concluded: “It is hoped that this slap in the wallet will cause energy companies to revise their prices, as was the case in Spain.”

Not sure how that'll work out but worth watching for sure.

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/big-power-switch-what-could-23653927

the idiot ryan at it again trying the ban the sale of turf without an alternative as per all green policies - the greens really know how to piss off rural ireland , cant wait for the big climb down come september. impossible to police and implement this law just like there ban on raised bogs which are still being cut because the law is an ass

https://www.independent.ie/business/farming/news/farming-news/minister-eamon-ryan-to-ban-sale-and-distribution-of-turf-41541705.html

so you are admitting that turf is needed for people not just in rural ireland but in towns and cities also but still support the implementation of this new law...the mind boggless