"Green" policies are destroying this country

This sums up the main issue in my mind, the alternatives should be in place beforehand.

Its pretty much the definition of just cutting off your nose to spite your face.

"we warned of these issues years ago, we have completely failed to act, so here we are, its major investment time now, and quickly, or we re fcuked....."

Missing the point, alternatives must be in place before hand, no matter how late you were in acting, its just basic common sense.

I really do not see that we can just keep on topping up electricity accounts, and further major investment in alternatives that are unreliable is not going to reduce the price of electricity under the marginal pricing policy.

Even the E.U. who are responsible for putting that pricing policy in place, now see that the only people benefiting from it financially are the energy companies.

If you think its that urgent why are you not calling for a complete ban on all fossil fuels, not just making it more difficult on people with low income to heat their homes. Why not ban all imports from China immediately ? Why use tax at all, if its that urgent ?

It`s a hole that the Greens just keep digging deeper. No amount of public investment going to change the fact the alternative energy sources currently available to us is going to change the fact that for years to come we are going to require fossil fuels as a fill-in for how unreliable those alternatives are.

That is something that the Irish Greens, unlike the rest of Europe, are just burying their heads in the sand attempting to ignore. While the rest of Europe is racing to use whatever resources they have to fill the gap of Russian gas, our ostriches are attempting to ban LNG andTurf and ignore Barryroe.

I is not just a green problem, Russia`s war made keeping the lights on everyone`s problem, but it is a problem with energy supply that is being exacerbated by the Irish Green party attempting to ban turf, LNG and stonewalling. Areas that the Irish Green`s are not even attempting to have a conversation on let alone nuclear.

The political institutions in Europe do not appear to be lost on the situation. Germany alone, who we have been slavishly following, are building LNG terminals, leasing floating LNG terminals, renewing gas exploration and strip mining coal telling their coal burning plants they were going to shut down before this war to now be on standby.

I would no more be an admirer of kamikazes than I would be of suicide bombers. For both it`s an ideology of my cause is righteous and I do not care how many of you I take out. It`s not an attitude I believe should be encouraged. Especially from members of a democratically elected government who are meant to govern for the good of all.

We need to get away from fossil fuels, but we are not going to achieve that in one magical jump regardless of what we do. And we are most definitly not going to do so with the present alternatives we have available. The rest of the E.U. are not as lost in ideology as we are with Irish Green present policy on turf, LNG and Barryroe. In first aid terms, they recognise that energy wise to keep the lights on in the immediate future Russian gas is the major bleed. Our Green`s are tinkering around with minor bleeds while ignoring the major bleed. That never has a good outcome for a patient.

Think I might get one of those wood pellet stoves, was talking to a few people and they said there is great heat out of them.

Suppose that clown Ryan would be complaining about that as well.

Aye they are expensive to install all right.

Being warned or ignoring is an irrelevance.

We are where we are and we do not have the renewables to provide 100% reliable energy, and we are not going to get there anytime soon regardless of what we do. We will need fossil fuels for however long it takes to get there. All countries in the E.U. recognise that, especially our former idols for Irish Greens, Germany, who are now scrambling to make up for the mistakes of depending on Russian gas and downgrading their own nuclear energy sources.

Meanwhile we have the Green Party here with their heads in the sand as if they expect somehow by some magic we can go to 100% reliable renewables overnight. It`s insanity.

Nuclear? If it wasn't for the insanity of the Greens and Putin appeasers including Merkel in Germany shutting down nuclear power stations, Germany would never have become so dependent onf Russian oil and gas. Ireland rejected nuclear in the 1970s though.

Regards...jmcc

Its not irrelevant that we were warned decades ago and didn't take action. It means that we need to stop ignoring the warnings and take this seriously. It means. We had a chance to let the old market forces and government policies to resolve the issue in advance, and they failed, so we need to do something different, more radical, and more resource intensive.

The Italian solution of 110% grants to do energy upgrades is one such option

https://www.italymagazine.com/post/110-superbonus-state-aid-restorations-italy

Ireland is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, We need to invest in our future, the fact that we were warned and our governments did nothing effective, means that we need to act on those warnings now and massively increase investment into getting away from polluting energy sources

Heat pump isn't an alternative , possibility of €5k a year electric bills coming closer to being a reality, trying to push people into a method that they won't be able to afford is gross stupidity, Greens don't understand that most people have very little spare cash and every extra penny they take makes it harder for even more people, only total loons would push up prices in the middle of a cost of living crisis.