Inflation

He emptys it every week or 2

mustnt be viable, wind seems like the only true viable option, for the moment anyway

we re still heavily reliant on fossil energy markets, until we truly move away from these sources, our energy costs will remain unstable and high, even though moving more towards renewables doesnt guarantee lower costs, it would more than likely reduce uncertainties...

very true, theres probably inherent instabilities in all forms of energy, but its clearly obvious, fossil fuels are done, for many different and obvious reasons, we ve become over reliant on international markets, and the only solution is to become as independent as we possible can, as these markets are going to remain highly unstable, probably indefinitely, and off shore wind truly is our only true option, for now anyway, and probably nuclear after that, but best of luck with that one in ireland! the time has come to rapidly expand our wind generation, and stop farting around with fossil fuels, but we ll need major supports from eu institutions to do so, particularly financial institutions....

Ryan also suggests we convert en-masse to heat pumps which will

require 100k retro-fit on existing houses. Sorry for quoting him again as I fully agree he is beyond incompetent. There is also the issue of taxation captured from fossil fuel how is this going to be replaced. Also subsidising energy costs for data centres is this really sustainable?

we will always need to consume, work, and then of course theres taxation in related to wealth accumulation such as the value of property etc, i.e. theres plenty of opportunities for taxation in general.....

...no theres no guarantees that living costs will go down, in fact its looking likely they ll continue to rise, including in regards overall taxation, we clearly need to heavily invest in our most critical of needs, i.e. property, health care, major infrastructure etc etc, so id expect taxes to rise, but hopefully this will be offset by improvements in such.....

The more renewables we add to the grid, the more reliant we are on gas as spinning reserve for when the wind doesnt blow. This makes us very exposed to market gas pricing, seeing as we dont have much more supply of our own. (Corrib runs out in a few years, Ryan wont make a decision on Barryroe field)

If we were allowed to keep going with turf, coal, oil burning thermal plants we would be more shielded from gas prices, but thats not green enough - we must repent for our carbon sins! even if it means fuel poverty and brownouts

Germany knew the situation with it's reliance on Russian energy very well. Scholtz never had the balls to tell Biden to go and **** himself with Nord Stream 2 and also never had the balls to tell the EU to go and **** themselves also with these sanctions. This is what he should of done IMO.

Well unfortunately we never quite nailed the distinction between economic migrant v refugee. We have most “refugees” when given visa’s here and passports returning home on vacation.

the % of peoples income in sub Saharan Africa spend on food is much higher than here so we are going to see massive inward migration - include Afghanistan and Yemen and so on it’s going to be a real challenge l.

Surely Europe will have to fold to Russia before the winter comes. I see folks talking about offshore wind and renewables and while I'm sure this will happen, accelerated even by current events, it's years away and it does nothing for big industries reliant on gas and the thousands of businesses reliant on affordable diesel to function.

Rising electricity costs are nailing everyone at the moment but as I see it, there's scope here for government intervention, payment arrangements with suppliers, etc. But gas and more so, diesel are a different beast and there's a lot of small businesses about to go wallop.. either directly impacted by the cost of fuel they're purchasing or indirectly impacted by suppliers passing on outrageous cost increases on account of either gas shortage for their manufacturing or diesel increases for transport

people seem to forget that every single item in their houses and every single item they use was transported by a diesel truck at some point

Indeed. What opened my eyes before the war in Ukraine even started was the impact high gas prices was having here.. fertiliser from the UK was stalled as the production plants became uneconomical to run and second, the co2 for food processing became scarce and expensive. This knocked onto farming and either directly or indirectly leaves food more expensive on the shelf. What's happened since with Russia/Ukraine has just turned all on it's head and we're now being told to expect a true food shortage!

We're in for an unprecedented winter.. f##cked on all fronts!

Instead of Leo banning oil and gas exploration off the West coast, he should be going cap in hand to international players and telling them drill to their hearts content!