"Green" policies are destroying this country

Last sentance is rubbish right. We're tied into EU pricing structures re gas. Tying ourself to the UK who can then charge what they like to us outside of collective EU buying power is madness. Depending on others for critical things is bad news. We should be capable of sustaining ourself as best as possible

When second hand ev market kicks in and people realise that wealth influences range. It will be interesting

This is it. When yall have to keep paying each time the standard charging fee. Yall get annoyed really quickly. Grand when ya have a shiney new ev. Not so much when the capacity on the battery is run down over the years.

Batteries are finicky too. Ya could drive it out of the car dealership and a month later the battery is completely shite holding no charge.

Unless batteries can be replaced cheap and recycled properly. A least an ice ya can tell straight away by a good mechanic by the way it sounds. And if maintained will last you a long time which in turn saves on waste.

If ya really wanted to help things scrape these Pcp loans and such and stop people changing there cars every year for a new one. Complete madness that.

I'm all for looking after environmental of this little planet but is has to be realistic and practical changes to help it.

You're last couple of paragraphs sums up my view of the current green agenda, its all about money. Getting people to spend money on things they don't need, on things that have no lifespan and need to be replaced frequently. Consumerism and using finite resources is what is damaging the environment.

I just don't see the logic in spending 60k on a car that will have to be replaced in 5 years, from both a monetary and wastefulness point of view.

Agree with this. Personal transport is not a green way of looking at things. Active travel and public transport is more their line. Makes sense. Plus doesn't Eamon Ryan have an old diesel himself and hasn't traded in for a shiny EV

I did not say we were not compliant on gas storage. It would have been a bit farcical to do so due to the interesting and relevant fact that we do not have gas storage facilities. I said we are in non-compliance with E.U. legislation on energy security. If you believe that to be incorrect then take it up with Aoife MacEvilly chairperson of the CRU who has publicly stated the same, as have Eirgrid as far as I recall

Why would I ask the Irish Green party about a proposal to buy LNG from Germany after they have returned it to its pre liquefied state and deliver it to Ireland via a pipeline through a state that is no longer part of the E.U Security of Supply agreement. A proposal that has now morphed into us using tanker ships to get our own purchased LNG too and from German LNG terminals that would require 600 times more the number of tankers to transport it to Ireland that would be reqired to transport it to Germany in its liquefied state ? That is not a proposal from the Irish Green Party, it`s your proposal.

Where you have got the idea from that after another four winters the E.U. and U.K. will be so awash with LNG that they would be literally giving it away I have no idea.

On Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland has its own gas pipeline which runs from Twynholm in Scotland to Islandmagee in Nothern Ireland. A few short years ago many would have said it was pure paranoia that Germany`s transition policy using Putin`s gas, (and by extension their encouragement of other E.U. state to do likewise) would leave them in their present energy supply mess. Or that U.K. nationalist jingoism, (similar to Russia and Putin), would result in them leaving the E.U. was anything other than pure paranoia. I imagine that in 2018 to even suggest that a U.K. M.P. would propose starving Ireland into submission on the Northern Ireland backstop would have been looked on as pure paranoia, yet it happened and that M.P. was promoted to Home Secretary of the U.K. the year after coming up with that idea.

Are you suggesting that Aoife MacEvilly chirperson of the CRU is lying and that we are in compliance ?

With you, like other Irish Green Party acolytes, being such a believer in running to the courts to ensure all E.U. green legislation is followed to the croosed t`s and dotted i`s and calling for the immediate imposition of daily fines for not doing so feeling it`s all fine and dandy to ignore legislation that doesn`t suit is somewhat hypocritical is it not ?

Especially with you stating you would have no problem on informing on your own neighbours for any breach of such national green legislation.

So the worry that Britain would cut off our gas is what this is all based on? Would you not be worried that they would also blockade or just torpedo our LNG terminal?

whwt you describe as my proposal is not my proposal and a lot of what you ascribe is as you well know not what I said at all. It is more of your oratorical clowning.

Do you also belive that Aoife MacEvilly chairperson of the CRU was lying to varoius Oirechtas Committees was lying when she stated that we were in non-compliance with E.U. legislation on energy security ?

Personally I have no reason to believe she was, or Eirgrid, as far as I recall were, when they said the same. But If you do, then why not just phone the CRU office in Tallaght (1800 404 404) and tell them you believe she was lying. When you are on to them you could also question them on her telling the Oirechtas Committee on Environment and Climate Action 29th. March 2022 that Ireland must consider, without delay, putting in place LNG infrastructure to ensure energy security for the State.

Nowhere near as enlightening imho as the fact that someone who is such a fan of legislative penalties being enforced. Especially someone even to the extent of informing on his own neighbours is happy to hypocritically ignore legislation that if enforced would result in very substantial daily fines until the legislation is complied with.

Very hypocritical indeed.

The U.K. is no longer a member of the E.U. and as such are not governed by the E.U. Security of Supply regulation on gas.

There would be no onus on the U.K. or no basis for anyone to to sanction or freeze the U.K. poitically for simply saying when we come cap in hand looking for LNG, "Sorry mate, none to spare I`m afraid"

From all you highlighted when you look at the data it does not make the situation any more rosey.

For the first two quarter of 2022 Germany was still getting gas from Russia. Third quarter, electricity generation from coal-fired plants rose by 14% Source : Reuters.

2022 additional emissions of 15.8 million tonnes of CO2 due to the "intensive use" of German coal burning plants. Source : Clean Energy Wire.

Well a red letter day of sorts.

Mayor Khan of London has found out what his citizens think of his proposal to hollow out that great global City and kill a huge swathe of commerce.

And in Germany, the federal government has decided to surrender itself to energy scarcity and its people to fuel poverty, while no one else in Europe is even dreaming about closing down nuclear until viable replacements are in place to be switched on.