"Green" policies are destroying this country

Your joking aren't you. Domestic septic tanks are a tiny problem compared to the intensive pig and chicken around Lough Neagh.

I have no confidence in your wishful analysis.

And you still haven't addressed the issues that we will a) be dependent on the kindness of strangers and b) with no certainty about the sustainability of the wind resource.

Bollox. Ireland has very tight immigration controls

That's fine in normal times but when the crap hits the fan, states look after their own interests first and rightly so. We've seen it all before with the EU and not so long ago, after the financial crash. We must have some degree of independence when it comes to energy and electricity, if we going to commit to it so heavily. Agreements with the EU are all fine until things go pear shaped - look at Covid and how some states closed down travel and free movement without regard to the EU.

Brexit broke trading agreements - that was the whole point.

We are part of a European wide energy market, you would have to go out of your way not to take advantage of it.

There is no and never can be any energy independence for Ireland when it is based upon fossil fuels. Recent history should have made that abundantly clear.

Media is driven by advertising. It's why Murdoch fired his biggest star from Fox news, a huge portion of their advertising comes from Pharmaceuticals to end consumers and Fox news demographic are older. Big oil does not sell to end consumers, the refined product we use is not made by the majors. I've not seen them advertising directly to consumers in recent years, then again I don't consume much Murdoch media so maybe it bypasses me. It's unlikely big oil are behind an attack on EV ownership, I have not see the articles in question, which other consumer advertisers would have a interest in that? Perhaps car manufacturers who need to make money? Electric Vehicles Are Draining Billions From Profitable ICE Legacy Automakers With Ford Projecting $3 Billion in Losses.

More your maths I`m afraid. The link I was referring to compared a price for wind to gas that wind companies are not prepared to supply wind at.

A price that is 10% higher allowing for U.K. inflation than last years successful bids for 7 Gigawatts. They are looking for an increase of 40% which is 6X times the rate of inflation. Attempting to compare the two is the green logic of comparing apples to oranges.

So if these companies presently say the cannot supply at a price, allowing for inflation, that is 10% higher than last years successful bidders without losing money, where does that leave the holder of last years successful bids.

If these companies presently are telling the truth, then if last years successful bidders fulfill those contracts for 7 Gigawatts will they not be losing money a well ?

Wouldn't have exported much in the past week. Wind turbines doing FA.

As far as I can see we have one viable way forward on dependable electricity -- build at least one large LNG terminal and adequate gas storage, and use CCGT thermal plant. Also make sure we have enough gas peakers. Unfortunately, having foregone all that through a series of stupid decisions, we can now only await our stupid prizes.

I see we are making ourselves hopelessly reliant on Britain for energy once again because we've banned ourselves exploiting our own resources and are stalling on LNG. Madness.

I thought according to greens the cost of offshore was only going down, yet now we have wind generators saying the rate of inflation for their sector is 40% and are basically holding the U.K. government to ransom. So to ask yet again, where does that leave the holders of the contracts for last years 7 Gigawatts. Do you believe they are going to fullfil those contracts at a loss of 40% ?

So you don't acknowledge that the cost of electricity has forced up the cost of the main raw material in wind turbines - something that the industry has absolutely no control over because most electrity is generated with gas.

Why will you not answer the question you were asked ?

You and others here have been telling us, even when it was clearly shown to be incorrect, that offshore wind prices were only going downwards.

Now we have companies saying they need an increase of 40% on last years prices or they will be losing money, (irrespective of the massive increase to the already insane cost of Ireland`s all eggs in one basket proposal of 37 Gigawatts from offshore,) where does that leave that U.K. 7 Gigawatts from last year. Do you believe those companies they will honor those contracts and supply at a 40% loss or not ?