"Green" policies are destroying this country

i'm not saying they're not pro-green, i'm saying they are other things BEFORE being pro-green. It seems more like a numbers game than anything. i see it with alot of things in business, including using cheaper packaging or recycled materials or irish grown products or cruelty free ethical farming, vegan, buy local, irish produce and other gimmicks. Just feels dishonest and misleading. The conflict of interest is far too often covered up, i think its just fair to point out that they're not fully pro-green with the electric being wasted with computers left on example someone had previously given here, even though its minuscule in the grand scheme of things its the principle that counts and shows a contradiction in the companies telling others to be pro-green and not waste electric when they are doing it themselves.

I work in the asset management industry where ESG has been the big thing for the last couple of years. However, everyone in the industry knows it's pure BS, it's just marketing really. The industry regulators have actually now copped on and voiced their concerns about ESG "labelling" being used primarily as a marketing tool and not as a move in investment strategy towards ESG.

And I would bet that very few of them if any actually live in affected area.

They operate on the principle that they have deeper pockets than a collection of locals in an area so will not be challenged legally. Pockets that the taxpayer is keeping topped up.

Afaik even if they lost, and like Father Ted and ecumenical matters, and can get their stance reconised by the courts as an enviromental matter, even losing the taxpayer would be on the hook for the tab.

They have learned well from the mother ship. An Taisce were masters of that tactic over the years when objecting to planning.

Someone often long distances from the area who would not have as much as a pot to piss in, so no financial cost to them if they lost.

Tesla share price is like a yo yo. Like it went up along with Bitcoin when Musk said you could buy a Tesla with Bitcoin, then he killed Bitcoin a few months later by saying you can't. Musk himself making millions out of that and I think, could be wrong, still under investigation for that.

The price of electric cars was extraordinary for years around covid, a 40+k Renault FFS. The reason prices are dropping is everyone thinks China will storm the market with BYD etc, but the BYD came in as the "cheap" electric car and its a pure rip off at 40k etc.

Im not sure why you think the share price of Tesla has anything to do with what people are going to buy as a new car?

By the way before you go off on a tangent I just bought myself a nice big 3.0ltr diesel car.

Tesla parts are expensive and repairs are expensive. Hertz was buying Tesla's and Polestars which are the premium brands in electric cars, yet if you go for a combustion engine car you get a Kia/Hyundai.

Just look at what they are selling off on second hard cars: https://www.hertzcarsales.ie/used-cars/

Hardly the premium brands of combustion cars.

Also not sure who advised a rental car company to use electric cars, probably part of the more silly brigade that have come out recently and killing companies like Disney etc. If you go to a foreign country and rent a car, last thing you want to do is try find a charger and then charge up a car. Wasting valuable time at a charge point, the role out of chargers in most countries is years away and a lot of hotels etc still don't have points.

Not sure what relevance China has to this but you do manage to link in China in most posts so not a surprise.

Congrats on the new car, but there is no need to go looking for a mysteries where there are none.

EV demand has gone soft amd Tesla have tried burning off competition from China by cutting prices. It has not worked and now Tesla are focusing on a lower priced car that will not be produced until at least the 2nd. half of 2025 that Musk says will be challenging involving new technokogy.

Tesla`s own shareholders do not appear to have a lot of confidence in this new tech being able to counter China`s use of cheap energy from coal and have slashed $210 Bn off Tesla`s market value. $80 Bn. of that being a one day record.

No idea either but my guess would be that it is in relation to new proposed E.U. legislation on genetically modified crops. I can see any of them turning up for a farmers protest, especially in France, being extremely lucky if it`s only the hairy eyeball they get from farmers.

If it is to do with GM crops I would look more on it as them looking for another angle to attack herbicide use rather than their great love for farming.

If they had two brain cells their heads would explode.

Like the little boy crying wolf, all childish self serving attention seeking gets you is ignored.

It seems our 37GW of offshore wind will pay a hefty chink of the yet unknown cost by giving a €38bn boost to the Irish economy.

Now I don't understand the gymnastics here to come to this number, but how spending billions, most likely to foreign companies, to then generate power which we already generate from cheaper sources (for now) will boost the economy to the tune of ~€1bn/GW is beyond me. We're not generatig "new" power. We already have it from other sources. Then how come we can't benefit already?

greens certainly dont be doing themselves any favors, wouldnt be worrying too much about them, theyre screwed in the next ge

I would love to be a fly on the wall in Brazil when Eamon tells them they need to cull millions of cattle rather than increase their numbers.