"Green" policies are destroying this country

An airport expansion confirmed

Don't see the need with Cork Airport only down the road. Better up to fines for other pollution to meet our growing emissions bills

A new report from Consumer Reports found that electric vehicles have almost 80% more problems and are "generally less reliable" than conventional internal combustion engine cars. Good thing every major government around the world is subsidizing their use in the name of 'climate change', right?

Even worse than electric vehicles were plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, which were found to have 150% more issues than traditional ICE vehicles, CBS reported. Ordinary hybrids are the best of the breed, with about 25% less problems than gas cars, the study found. 

The study encompassed information from over 330,000 vehicles produced from 2000 to 2023, including a limited number of reports on brand-new 2024 models.

The recent vehicle reliability report from Consumer Reports coincides with a time when car purchasers have the benefit of a federal tax credit of up to $7,500 when buying an electric vehicle. 

But, as CBS noted in their summary, the adoption of EVs by consumers has been slower than initially anticipated. One contributing factor to this slower adoption is the higher maintenance costs associated with EVs compared to conventional vehicles, along with the necessity for additional equipment like home electric charging stations.

The component count in the inverters, motor control and charging system is high. If just one surface mount resistor or capacitor dies, things stop working. A gasket leaking oil in an internal combustion engine is obvious and usually easy to get to and replace. A surface mount capacitor on a board buried inside a charging control module, no mechanic is going to fix that. The problem with electric cars is the drive to make them out-perform cars with internal combustion engines (ICE) while at the same time add every possible electronic gimik. You end up with super fast, super expensive, high voltage, super complex car. Even ICE cars have gotten to the stage were a failure of the electronic control unit (ECU) leads to them stop working.

There is this boyo to consider, he's growing in number, depending on the season, he occasionally has nothing better to do than chew the wiring harness in cars. Check your insurance covers the damage, he is known to cause EVs to be written off, when the insurance policy does not cover the prohibitive cost of repairs.

Martens are truly evil creatures. A menace to poultry and now seemingly EVs too?

At least they help trim down the Grey Squirrel populations.

I suppose that's why the Greens want to reintroduce Wolves as a predator for the Martens in order to protect their precious EVs?

Perhaps countries which benefited from colonialism for a few centuries can hand something back. We keep hearing that we are rich and should chip in too which is only funny considering we are in so much debt that we barely service interest.

This socialist wealth redistribution thinking created whole range of countries which figured out that all they need to do is to sit on ars3 with hat in the hand. Not to mention that majority of the funds or "help" is superficial and serve to enrich selected companies of donors and ruling class of receiving place.

Plus undeniable fact that current batteries usually last about 2 years and after that they lose capacity so fast you will be on charger more time than actually driving. Replacement battery cost nearly as much as whole new car. While they are practical in the cities for short distance trips in heavy traffic, they are useless as a family car or for longer commutes.

...ah i wouldnt worry about it, fossil fuel industries will be well looked after from this cop....

...what a sham!

If it`s a sham then it hasn`t happened overnight.

While we have been doing our otmost to flush our economy down the toilet with the insane idea that by doing so the rest of the world will suddenly see the error of their ways and follow our example for the good of the planet. The real major emitters have been turning up to these beanfeasts and leaving nobody in any doubt that their economies are their one and only concern and they will use coal or whatever else they feel like as a cheap energy source. Two of those with close to 40% of the world population now also taking advantage of the war in Ukraine getting cheap deals on Russian oil and gas.

To repeat the term that a poster here used earlier, if the shower we have representing us at this latest beanfeast look around the room and cannot find the fool then it`s past time they recognised it`s them.

But then these COPs are U.N babies so expecting them to not turn into farce was never going to happen.

I'm struggling to see how transitioning away from reliable dependable fuel sources is in any way an advantage.

I am sick sore and tired of these U.N. COP meeting that have morphed into nothing more than "Show me the money" where we should be wearing ashes and sack cloth and flushing our economy down the drains because we are responsible for the problems of these developing countries. Some of those countries are the most corrupt on the face of the planet. Anybody that believes they will use money thrown at them to build windmills needs to take a reality check.

The major emitters have made it clear that they are taking advantage, and will continue to do so, to boost their economies by using cheap fuel sources. Now that people are becoming more aware of that and emissions are becoming a harder sell, the U.N. has pivoted to its default position with these COPs. "Think of the childer and throw us loads of money"

Meanwhile here we have an offshore wind/hydrogen plan that nobody is honest enough to give a price for that according to the demand estimates from Eirgrid will not even be within an asses roar of what we will require, or what affect it will have on our economy. An economy where greens are determined to ruin our agriculture sector based on nothing other than their own ideology and a distain for all thinks rural while they indebt and tax the bollocks off us.

Leo pledges a further 25 million of hard-earned tax payer money to fake human-induced climate disasters in obscure parts of the world.

That brings it to the nice round figure of a quarter of a billion per year until 2025, but the taoiseach reassuring the green zealots that he will continue p!ssing the money away much longer than this.

Just think of all the facilities this could build, the infrastructure it could repair, the more deserving causes it could be donated to. Disgraceful.

Leo varadkar and his faction of brown-nosers are poison to the country

What annoys me more than COP is how the media lap them up, treat everything that is said as gospel and don't throw a critical eye on the speakers or the representatives that attend. Falling over themselves to use more hyperbole and dire warning adjectives with each report and headline.

And what benefits for Ireland? €225 million would build a LOT of houses.

I think you will find that the EU is bigger than Japan, no matter what way you like to cut it.

I love that shoite.. we have a mechanism for offsetting carbon emissions. What a COP out😂

Thats always the kind of uncomfortable truth /hypocrisy when the elite try to persuade the masses that they must take a hit for the greater good of the team

Just be bloody honest about it, saving the world involves sacrifices for the masses which is why regresive taxes are a Godsend for the elite