"Green" policies are destroying this country

It's a target and can be changed if required which is what you are confirming.

I have no idea what the rest of the rant if about. Typical anti green nonsense.

the USA have been driving the deindustrialising of the eu but the eu is too blind to see beyond the green rhetoric.when they wake up it will be too late

Could you at least attempt to read what is posted before replying with yet another of your belligerent posts ? It`s childish and tiresome.

You said "2035 was always a target". A target is something you aim for and that is not what the E.U. Commission voted on and passed. Or what the the E.U. parliament subsequently voted on and passed. They voted and passed the motion that no new ICE vehicles would be sold in the E.U. after 2035 by law.

No surprise you didn`t understand what the rest of the post was about on Germany backed by others putting a stop to it. It was to do with economics. Something greens, especially on this thread, appear to have no understanding off.

This dime bar is so detached from reality it's scary. He genuinely thinks a 75K loan over 20 years at 4% interest rate is a "game changer".

I actually got the term length wrong, it's over a 10 year max. So the repayments come in at nearly 700 per month. Pure lunacy

I mean, I think most of us would be delighted if there was a Metro finished by early 2030s. If he gets the railway order and some shovels in the ground during his tenure, along with other improvements in public transport, I'd be delighted with his term as Minister of Transport.

black mark how? it's progressing and looking more likely to be built than any previous attempts at a metro.

All of the massive amounts of red tape. Pretty sure hearings go ahead for the planning approval some time first quarter of 2024. Check out the thread on the Infrastructure forum on Metro, the transport nerds there seem pretty certain it's happening this time and keep up to date with all developments. It seems to be heading in the right direction, under the watchful eye of our hero Big Eam.

There are 2 million odd households in Ireland, so at circa 50k a year households it'll only take 40 odd years to retrofit them all with this scheme. What an achievement!

If the Greens actually wanted to drive down emissions, while helping improve the quality of life of people, they'd have brought in a very easy to qualify for no interest loan scheme. A whole house retrofit paid for upfront by the government, with say 80% of the electricity/heating savings then taken a month until the loan is paid off.

The home owner would still benefit from lower electricity/heating bills so it would be worthwhile for them, emissions would go down, and the cost to the state long term would be minimal - particularly at a time when we've got billions of excess euros sitting around not being used. Everyone wins.

Instead our Greens only introduce schemes like this which only already wealthy people could possibly use - the only households going to be able to add 700e a month to their monthly outgoings are those already very financially comfortable.

And at the same time they continually ratchet up taxes on everyone, making life even harder for the poor/working classes...

Its no wonder they're facing electoral wipe-out.

Where do you come up with this nonsense. Germany, Iataly or the other countries that would not sign off on this didn`t give a rats ass about e-fuels. As Carville said back in 1992, "It`s the economy stupid". But then perhaps you believe that jobs have nothing to do with economies..

E-fuels are just another of the green pipe dreams and were only a face saving exercise by the E.U. to cover that their plan to ban the sale of ICE vehicles after 2035 are dead and buried. E-fuels are at least double the price of petrol or diesel, where yet again there is no coherent geen plan to reduce their cost, and like the E.U. farce on wood burning, they would still emit CO2 and NO2.

Other than the E.U. presenting ever driver an EV within the next 11 years ICE vehicles using petrol will be manufactured and sold in the E.U. long after 2035, so just get over it

I’m in my late 60’s and I seem to recall talk about the underground for Dublin back in the early 2000’s. Yes he wasn’t in power then I grant him that but Gormley was in the late 2,000’s and the greens should have pursued this then , when they were in power.

why didn't FF/FG pursue it then and make sure it happened? gormley wasn't the minister of transport at the time.

If they would not waste money putting concrete slabs and metal poles on the road and making lane that barely any cyclist use pretty much blocking ambulances getting through as there is nowhere to move to let them go, then maybe they could move that metro project bit more significantly.

I think you can blame An Bord Pleannala for most of that, an outfit that seems almost unfit for purpose, COVID would have slowed things down too.

This is a very puzzling exegesis. In the one hand you are against Europeans subsidizing Chinese imports. On the other hand you are disappointed anbout the prospect of adjustments for foreign goods to counteract the subsidies. Perhaps you think the CBAM is too little, too late?

Sadly many of the points you raise are not new to me. They were articulated extensively on the neighbouring island in the second half of the last decade

Thank you for your brilliant observation about how the intersection of demand and supply dictates the price of commodities.

I don’t know what any of this has to do with the price of car parts. I take it you now accept that neither the CBAM nor your unspecified certification scheme will have any real influence on the price of German car parts.