"Green" policies are destroying this country

Yeah hybrids were/are a cod. Especially the so-called "self charging" ones. Plug in hybrids were a good enough compromise

Here is something that is useful

However, watch prices rise. I've been getting quotes recently and any I've recieved in the last day or 2 are ~€1000 higher than the ones got last week and before.

Look at what english plan to do and expect eamon to come with the same thing soon... It is always easier to tax or ban than doing something like replace old pipes which are way over their "best before" date.

It is almost like certain people go over themselves to figure out what they can tax and ban even though it is pointless considering what they are presenting as a reason why it is needed...

Well, they seems to be going ahead with it. I have no problem to imagine how ER can put some of this plan on steroids and first they ban sales, next ban import, and then watch out for Border patrol episode where customs agents take power shower smuggler in the room for interview and recommend some green reeducation course along with environmental fine for killing the planet.

Lets see, electric shower 10.8kw, EV charger 7.2kw (his and her car), & heat pump 7.3Kw and thats before you get to lighting, cooking, washing machines, clothes dryers, fridges, TVs and computers, charging mobile phones, and the myriad of electrical devices we use. There is no need for a ban, you will have to chose what you want to prioritise in the green all weather dependent electric future. Local transformer blows up every fortnight, well hope you have a backup generator. They know they can't scale the electricity grid with unreliable power generation, to address this they are rationing demand.

If you read my post again perhaps slowly this time, you will see I knew that link is from UK and I simply speculated that it is only a matter of time when our overlords adopt it over here. We d have history of copying our neighbor policies, be it lack of will or thinking who knows our politicians made it easy for themselves this way.

Our utility was created for billing people, new tax on everybody, and it is just another black hole quango eating up money. This was discussed in other threads to the death and saying that Irish water was created to fix problems and population shut it down resulting in "underfunding" is nonsense. Water was and still is funded through other ways and lack of funds is solely fault of governments who redirected and used these funds for something else.

15 year gas supply contracts and burning more coal, and knocking back the EU bureaucrats on ICE engines are not eliminating fossil fuels from the European grid. Not only that us Europeans are cutting down forest for firewood, the reason forests regrew and expanded in Europe since the 19th century was due to the take up of fossil fuel. Hard political reality is putting a nail in the Green energy lunacy.

Will the OPEC+ oil output cut make inflation worse? The + is Russia. 2 million barrels a day production cut. Don't look for the Americans to come to the rescue, the American administration ran down their strategic reserve to buy the election. The war is not just going on in Ukraine, on the international front Saudi Arabias biggest customer China, has been cutting deals, including shifting to Yuan for trade. Next UN COP meeting is being hosted by country whose primary trade is oil & gas. . . .

Did I mention the banking crisis has spread to Europe. What has that got to do with unreliable energy generation you say? Finance, the wind turbines and solar panels built in the last decade were don't with low interest rates. Fossil fuels production cut, more cost or production, cost push inflation means cutting interest rates is suicidal and financing the war is expensive. We are heading to a market were the European and American politicians era of financialisation has hot a road block, and the Europe politicians have backed themselves into an energy cul de sac, Wake Up, West – a new energy world order is building, fast.