"Green" policies are destroying this country

That survey result is not rocket science. The green party and their partners in government have shown the working people nothing but contempt with their "green" policy linked taxes. All we see is the money being sucked out of our pockets every month. All for some fantasy that little old Ireland is going to somehow save the planet while China, India etc don't really care.

How much of that 10K is used to support the infrastructure that cyclists and local buses that occasionally run also use? As a cyclist I don't like potholes either, cycling over dirt tracks in this weather is not the done thing. There are no tolls on greenways, where is the money to build and maintain them coming from or do they renew and sustain themselves in the face of nature including human activity? Advocates like to claim wind and sun are free and cheap to convert to electricity, they ignore the contracts between wind generators and government agencies, and price of the supporting infrastructure needed to maintain reliable generation and they make the price of providing that infrastructure much more expensive, we see this in our electricity bills.

The Greens and their acolytes are using other peoples money to shutdown the activity that pays to maintain their delusions. They do it by restricting and transferring wealth from lower income people, there is a reason about a dozen billionaire foundations fund the climate activists that make all the noise you see in the media, they expect a return on their investments elsewhere.

Look what Greens are doing in practice, restricting peoples options for heating their homes, they are pushing people to take on debt to retrofit houses from "approved" sources with dubious cost benefit analysis to the individual, what is the payback period for these refurbishments?.

They subsidise solar panels and battery electric vehicles, yet ignore the materials processing, the energy to make these is provided by coal and oil in other countries. They restrict domestic extraction of materials needed to maintain the infrastructure we currently use, ignoring the timescales needed to bring these products to market, they are burning through the capital investments made years ago to produce these materials and they actively discourage capital investment in what they refer to as "stranded assets", and create legislation that is then used by their own activists to force their ideology using lawfare in the courts.

Their answer is public transport using buses that run occasionally, and bicycles only for the private citizen, forgetting bicycles are made by contract manufacturers, imported from Taiwan & China and a product of the industrial revolution, the same industrial revolution they despise.

Sure, he's going over to show them the error of their ways, don't ya know. It'll be a road to Damascus moment for China and they will decide to hamstring their economy for years to come after realizing the error of their ways. They'll convert to cheap (well it's not cheap but if you repeat a lie often enough it becomes the truth) windpower and solar, **** down all those nasty coal plants and go back to living off the land like good little peasants should.

I said I hadn't seen anything as ridiculously starry-eyed ... but the popular science press is always good for a laugh. How about this one:

"Scientists Have Discovered an Enzyme That Converts Air Into Electricity".

What's more, "this breakthrough paves the way for the development of devices that can literally generate energy from thin air". Yaayyy! We're saved!

You have to wonder if the journos really are this innumerate or if it's all just a cynical play for clicks. Here's the actual research:

You only need to read the first few paragraphs and whip out a calculator to realise that you'd be talking about filtering fifty billion litres of air to extract the energy to power a single household for a single day. I'd say there's a fair chance the process would be energy negative! 😂😂😂

The only people who will notice our heroic effort to "save the planet" will be us. Next logical step will be taxing the air we breath.

In Germany new regulations may mean up to €50K fines if you do not convert your heating. This means if a Germans heating system has to be replaced in the coming year; whether due to a fault in the old gas or oil heating system or due to a new building their only options are freeze, heat pumps, fuel cells or wood pellet heating systems. As you can expect there is much opposition to this so unlikely to find traction at the moment.

Fine regulations in the GEG: Violations of regulations are expensive (original)

The Greens and their coalition partners restrictions on turf are their first tentative steps along this path, organisations affiliated with the Green party such as An Taisce, Friends of the Earth and the limited company "Friends of the Irish environment" will draw on this. These NGOs receive taxpayer funding from government departments under the auspices of the Irish Environmental Network (IEN). Worse still it's not just the Greens the Irish political class like to be seen as the "best boys in Europe" and passed the climate action and low carbon development act back in 2015 and import what EU countries like Germany & the Netherlands are doing. It's time to cut off the NGOs from the taxpayers pocket, it's time to challenge the government on it's energy security planing.

No we wont, appears the system as set up by the greens is not fit for purpose, people are being ripped off by installers with the consent of the "Green circle".

https://www.thejournal.ie/solar-panels-grants-supports-microgeneration-5981150-Jan2023/

No we won't. The grants are a bureaucratic nightmare to begin with and the overall costs are outrageous with rampant greed, price gouging and shoddy work, facilitated by the SEAI and the grant system. I certainly don't see panels "going up all over the place".

Lol! It’s like banging your head against the wall.

At least in the UK you have some in the media who are willing to question this net zero pledge- questioning net zero by 2050 in Ireland just doesn’t happen.

Maybe the penny is starting to drop?. However, the old school journalists are dying off, since Christoper Booker died (GLOBAL WARMING - A case study in groupthink), there has not been much opposition in UK mainstream media. The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) punches above its weight in the UK, most of the public opposition is from people who are close to or at retirement. It took Stewart Dimmock (ab LGV lorry driver and school governor) to stop the lies in Al Gores "Inconvenient truth" propaganda film being shown across UK schools. The BBC is exclusively biased towards catastrophic global warming (CAGW), there is also heavy funding for alarmists coming from billionaire foundations. The Weather attribution "studies" come from people backed by the Grantham institute. They also have Children’s Investment Fund (Hedge fund manager - Chris Hohn) who put money into Extinction rebellion. The UK also has Carbon Brief which provides UK and Irish media with much of the formulated news stories about "climate change".

When channel 4 broadcast the Great Global Waring Swindle, they got so much flack from activists that no media organisation will deviate far from the narrative. This is described by producer Martin Durkin in the following interview.

I’d like to ask a question and hopefully it doesn’t get drowned out by the constant link dumping by a certain poster!

Question being:

who set the high price of gas?

As I understand it the gas price spiked on a FORECAST shortage due to Russian shenanigans.

This forecast shortage was determined by speculators who drove up the price of gas on the market- yes?

So the likes of Saudi aremco are making massive profits because speculators forecast that there’d be a shortage of gas? Is that correct?

And obviously the wind companies are making massive profits off the back of this due to the coupled price of electricity generation even though they’ve nothing to do with gas.