"Green" policies are destroying this country

Irish wind prices? What does that mean?

Who is saying we cut off our main energy supply?

The plan is to wean ourselves off Fossil fuels. No new FF infrastructure, all new infrastructure should be renewable, shut down FF infrastructure as it's no longer needed

Invest way more in Renewables instead of white elephant FF infrastructure

It's not complicated.

We have Moffatt

Unless that blows up. we'll be grand

And all the panic from a month or 2 ago seems to have died down and wholesale gas prices actually went negative last week as storage was full and supply exceeded demand.

We should not have hydrogen pipelines, Hydrogen is too small a molecule, it leaks like sh1t. We should have ammonia pipelines, or tankers, which can store hydrogen as reserves for when the doldrums happen (infrequently)

Interconnectors, ammonia, Batteries (locally, regionally, utility and industrial scale storage) will all make our grid stable and reliable

This is the future. We can build it now, There will be some role for Nuclear, but I genuinely think it will be priced out of the market as the marginal price of energy from wind/solar/geothermal etc will be close to zero

Nuclear could barely compete with fossil fuels that have a high marginal cost of energy. they will be white elephants

The Ryan clown wanting to sign us up to all sorts despite having zero mandate from the people. RTE shouldn't be releasing stories that have been given a time embargo to release from this arsewipe.

Most fanatical green alarmists are hypocrites. They are meat eating vegans, crying foul of the doom and gloom, yet continue to consume more CO2 than 80% of the global population.

it’s grand standing on an epic scale. The fight to save the planet morphed into a wealthy populist campaign, where just believing is enough and action is not required.

If your footprint is quadruple the average, that’s fine once you public accept that we are all dead and the science is settled.

Who would of thought that humans could settle science with primitive tools and fundamental lack of understanding with a fraction of data, where one data point covers areas larger that UK, Ireland, and France.

Planet needs to be respected, sustainable or not many of or activities are destructive and irresponsible. The greens need to knock this dooms day clock nonsense on the head. There are 100s if not 1000s of missed expert predictions. Unfortunately “we don’t know enough, yet” is not allowed in modern science

Would you mind outlining exactly which fossil fuel subsidies you would like to see removed? As far as I can see, most people bleating about "subsidies" have just imbibed Green fairytales and don't know what they are or what they're for (generally either employment-related tax rebates that all companies get, or fuel poverty alleviation measures).

And yes, of course you can incentivise people to act differently if you give them enough grants/freebies. The issue is whether you'll crash the economy doing it. There's no such thing as a "free" government handout: it has to come from either borrowing or taxation. Same with the eye-watering prices we pay to incentivise renewables. Investors are queuing up for the returns -- they'd be stupid not to. You can't run a viable economy that way, though.

From today's New York Times:

Of course there's no "banding together" from Ireland, where Eamon Ryan is adamant we won't be building an LNG terminal. Europe can get stuffed as far as he's concerned. He either doesn't know or doesn't care that whatever we import from the UK will then not be available to the continent.

Likewise, he is absolutely determined to scupper indigenous resources. He commissioned a report on the financial viability of the Barryroe partners which was completed in June (according to one of the partners, Lansdowne Oil and Gas). But he sat on it until October 28th and then demanded demonstration of finances within 21 days. It's now a year and a half since the partners applied for a petroleum lease undertaking on a valid existing exploration license. The man is a disgrace.

Here he is spinning his usual lies in the Dáil (which appears to be completely empty, so he's there for the camera opportunity). "Finding oil/gas is a 100 to 1 shot" ... except we have already FOUND it. We're not talking about wildcat drilling. "It costs $100m a pop" ... except Ireland doesn't pay for it, the costs are born by private investment. But it doesn't matter anyway because "the world is going to burn to a cinder". It's truly remarkable that we've got to the stage where a grown adult (much less a supposedly responsible politician) is allowed to spout such childish nonsense.

it's 2 and a bit years until the next general election, so not long at all now. do you think when the greens and eamon are gone that sinn fein will get the ball rolling on drilling for oil and gas? and nuclear?

No just no we can't let him sign us up to anything somebody needs to keep and eye on this

Indeed, I heard that aired this morning. What I took from it is that there are some people who must drive into Dublin city for work purposes. But of these, those who are on higher incomes and can afford EVs will get cheaper parking. Whilst lower paid workers in their petrol/ diesel cars will pay more.

What sort of gobs run Dublin City if they think this is a logical idea.

Nope. They won't have a majority and it'll be another coalition government full of compromises and kicking the can down the road on numerous issues. In any case their energy policy is against oil and nuclear power being generated in Ireland so don't be looking to them for some sort of way forward on that.