"Green" policies are destroying this country

And the diesel van is still the only viable option despite the crazy taxes levied on it.

The self employed man can use a diesel, the only ones who care about this nonsense is the people who don’t understand electric

I don’t care who buys what fuel

The Uk market is second biggest in Europe for car sales, making statements that car manufacturers will stop making cars for it is ridiculous

You don’t like electric car, so, buy a combustion car

The uk car manufacturing industry is dying a long time ago and has nothing to do with Electric cars

Seems they have a habit of throwing out threats to boost it's profits.

With an election coming up Im sure plenty of other companies will do similar, the UK goverment won't want mass unemployment threats from companies

It’s not the first time Stellantis has threatened to leave the UK. Last year, the company warned it would shut factories unless potential tariffs on its electric vans exported to the European Union were renegotiated. A deal between the EU and UK was ultimately struck before the deadline.

Lots do that. Invest using taxpayers money usually via grants/tax breaks and then up sticks and leave.

We are there to set up policy decisions, that’s what we are there for. It’s up to the city council.“They have voted twice, they had a very detailed consultation process, I think we should go ahead.” source

Eamon Ryan on the way out, nothing to lose, therefore will not change, he defers to the council. Higgins is FG TD from a West Dublin constituency, likely trying to buy time in advance of the next election, it will become her constituents problem.

I have noticed along corridors where only public transport is allowed there are dead zones in the city with no business activity, commercial activity tends cluster around the stops where there is sufficient foot fall.

How would it end up for for Irish people? We will need to speak Mandarin, so we can haggle to make a few quid shining their shoes.

I am making the point, which you seems to not understand, that China CO2 is high because they are the manufacturing capital of the World.

Clean up our own mess before you start pointing fingers at other countries.
I doubt you will care and continue to point at China, it's the same whataboutery for years when anything about climate change comes up or CO2

You might be interested but Ireland has a higher Co2 per captia compared to China. Who fault is that?

Your logic of Brussels has more power than Rome equates to a body governing 448m people having more power than 60m people kinda makes sense.

Of course what you fail to realise is that Italy is a member state of the EU. Meaning decisions made by the EU government in Brussels are agreed upon by the Italian government in Rome

With regards to the EU ban on petrol and diesel cars. It is happening and it's happening in more than just the EU so you might as well get used to it. The UK, Chile, Canada, Japan, some US states all have plans. In fact even China have plans to do it by 2035, although I'd take what they say with a rather large pinch of salt. Norway plan to get ahead of us all and intend to do it from next year, Ethiopia did it this year so it's quite possible

I am making the point, which you seems to not understand, that China
CO2 is high because they are the manufacturing capital of the World.

Clean up our own mess before you start pointing fingers at other countries.

That logic doesn't make sense. Suppose we did our own manufacturing…

We've converted the west side of the island to rewilded meadow, closed to tourism, where newly introduced wolves keep down the bison population lest a bovine fart spoil the zero emissions tranquillity.

The east side of the island is an industrial hellhole belching out coal fumes and toxic waste. It's also increasing at a rate much faster than our delicate rewetted peat bogs can absorb.

Where would you focus your emissions reduction efforts? Would you say, "emissions are high in the east because it's the manufacturing capital of the island; you westerners should clean up your own mess before you start pointing fingers".

At the end of the day it doesn't matter who you blame. CO2 molecules don't keep a tally of where they came from. Emissions are not going down until the biggest emitters emit less. If you agree that manufacturing gets a dispensation because it supplies the rest of the world, then you agree that we are not headed for net zero anytime soon and that efforts like Ireland's are tokenistic.

Ah the auld per capita thingy. Luckily, that's a gap that's closing as Chinas population falls and ours grows

There's problems with the waste system in Ireland, no question about that. But the DRS is the same scheme that is in play successfully in many European countries. To that effect, its proven.

It seems that the Greens are ready made whipping boys for so many people who don't look at the bigger or wider picture. Same goes when it comes to transport and infrastructure. There's a delay to planned infrastructure changes in Dublin city center because apparently the owners of multistory car parks have put pressure on officials because they know less cars is less revenue for their operations. Less cars in congested spaces is a win for everyone involved but instead of grasping the nettle and committing to that, too often we end up trying to keep everyone happy and again the Greens get kicked because what they said would be the outcome, didn't come about.

Anyway, I'm sure there's probably a better location on this site for this link, but I'm also sure many here will be interested in this for various reasons. And also that it might help someone to know that the next time a Green is talking about climate change, they're doing so on the back of detailed scientific data.

https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2024/0702/1457663-ireland-extreme-heatwaves-high-temperatures-research/

https://www.rte.ie/news/environment/2024/0702/1457649-extreme-heat/

Maynooth boffins announce today that Ireland is now more likely than ever to suffer heatwaves.

I wonder do these academics or George Lee for that matter ever think about the circumstances they release these reports in? Do they look out the window like? Or even walk outside? About 12C here this morning.

Not true.

Look at Dawson Street and the whole Grafton Street area which has seen a revival since Luas City Centre.