Colder this week, some wintry/snow showers, widespread frost and ice.

Here's a rant....

Well themselves and the media put the feat of God into elderly and vulnerable people about using too much electricity.

I remember in the 80's all my grandparents had was two electric heaters a range and hot water bottles. They had a bog they lived in north Kerry Brosna actually. Plenty of turf, coal was a luxury.

That walk to do a wee at night down the hallway was cold. So you'd walk on those cold plastic tile's on your tippy toes. Sometimes I'd go into the living room, open the door and they'd all be sitting down watching the black and white TV. The blast of heat from the Stanley range was nice. I'd sometimes spit on it and watch the spit do a dance on the Stanley 8 affordable back then for most people.

Sometimes Tarbert would have problems, you'd see the light's dim a bit a few times then a power cut. Maybe for an hour or two. But the Stanley 8 kept on burning.

I don't know what's going on in some political classes head's but no way can vulnerable and elderly people living in their own paid for or inherited home's afford heat pumps or people on a modest wage. If I ask a member of the Green party they waffle with word salad on about incentives work in progress and look what we did over there. We've helped all those people over there, being all virtuous.

I ask again what are your incentives for the vulnerable,elderly and people on modest income's who own their own house's. They go off on a tangent about incentives and work in progress.

Meanwhile the media and political classes are instilling fear and anxiety into people's subconscious. Blaming the war in the Ukraine and the price of oil doing a nose dive.

Live interactive chart of West Texas Intermediate (WTI or NYMEX) crude oil prices per barrel. The current price of WTI crude oil as of December 09, 2022 is 72.00 per barrel.

They're liar's the lot of them, the emperor's new clothes is alive and well in the western world. Paying green taxes and the multinationals who caused all the pollution as per usual get off scott free. They just rename their companies and invest in something else.

Libs, conservatives, moderates they're all in this together. I don't vote anymore because I am sick of the vulnerable, elderly and lower middle classes having to pay for the man's mistakes.

Sorry for the rant and I'm not looking for an argument on the internet but that's my observation.

Agree with a lot you say in that - very much of it is true.

However, this is the thread to lower your blade in: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058211251/green-policies-are-destroying-this-country