"Green" policies are destroying this country

The kind that will be paying a fortune to keep warm this Winter and relying on a Winter sun to heat their water, while others will be toasting themselves in front of a lovely fire that has cost them nothing that is also heating their water.

I have been around for a fair few years and it`s a long time since I`ve seen so much turf cut and saved as this year.

Ive had just about enough of yr ramblings. Im biting my tongue because your proposed solutions concerning renewables and batteries has such a high entropy factor that only incompetent and totally biased green advocates would put those ideas forward. I suggest a proper understanding of physics is in order. In short: you are deluding yourself. Now, i dont know if you are aware of this and deliberately put up smokescreens to mask your ignorance or that you have picked some numbers to make an equation work to reach a desired outcome. What we call, cooking the books. Seems to me a speciality of green advocates..

Edit: your posts are not always complete nonsense but it is just the way you skewe the particulars. I see this all the time. You might make a valid point but then propose the wrong solution to the wrong problem. For instance: you should see the grid and the interconnectors in a holistic way, one with many variables in a trade off system and look for the best outcome in the most efficient, lowest entropic way. With proper cost/benefit calculations. This obsession with renewables pushes a proper outcome to the side and leads to unwarranted biases. It is this element that irks me most of all.

I agree. I saw more turf being carted around today than i have in a long time when i was driving through the countryside. Even cars with trailer loads.

DaCor won’t be happy and i certainly won’t be apologising for that, tough 😉

It should also be noted that you haven`t mentioned from that letter the sentence highlighted.

"A right of turbary in relation to bogland in its simplest form means the right to cut and carry away turf from a specific plot of bogland and includes the right of preparing and storing on the bogland any turf you cut from it"

Eamon Ryan wants us to hand over money to countries allegedly impacted by climate change.

The sooner these clowns are cleaned out of office the better.

It is inevitable. Every year the COP get together will result in, surprise, surprise, Co2 emissions curb has again failed to materialise. Then even more stringent emission cuts proposed with again, a pushback and again the same old tiresome reaction fron the media. Like some sad annual circus w diminishing returns. And nobody doing a system analysis but w more and more third world countries on the money train milking the colonial shame cow. I propose an addition: celebs public self flaggelation, medieval style. Di Caprio and Thunberg first, then Obama, Gates, Gore and so on. I even have a name for it: GORE FEST, the inconvenient new attraction. Then i will even watch it. Hell, I'll even make a donation. And let the celebs cycle and/or row to the location first. And make them live in mud huts and produce their own fuel using renewable windmills and solar panels made from anything they like, instead of flying and staying in luxury suites or boats with their expensive crew signalling their virtue and beating each other on the chest...

This is more or less what I took from his interview this morning:

The ordinary middle income tax payer will be screwed with additional taxes and have costs imposed on them to change their homes on cars.

The beneficiaries will be those 'less well off'. In Irish terms, Eamon means those on social welfare and in local authority housing etc. Many of whom, but not all, contribute little to the running of the state. Whilst internationally, we'll hand over taxpayer funded compensation or redress money to other states.

Net benefit to ordinary middle income tax payer is paltry, as no particular reduction in the emissions from the huge polluters. Ever feel like you're being put over a barrel?

It depends on who your neighbor is.