Bishop of hope wrote: » They went through an election and ended up back in govt, who screwed up there?
Bubbaclaus wrote: » Government should be considering introducing legislation once enough vaccine has rolled out across the country to tap into this, get cash flowing back around the parts of the economy that have been badly affected by covid:https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/household-savings-remain-at-extraordinary-level-39879886.html Perhaps something similar to the stay and spend scheme with some sort of incentive for buying local/Irish.
[Deleted User] wrote: » Paul Murphy has zero interest in going into government. Much easier shout from the opposition benches. The TDs of the left cannot agree on anything other than forming a group in the Dail and making as much noise as possible. They fight amongst themselves and break away to form another pointless “Party”.
spacet wrote: » Didn't Leo recently say he should have waited until April (mid pandemic bounce in popularity) to call the election? That was a screw up for him.............because he is a weird f*cking sociopath.
Bowie wrote: » Thats the usual blarney SF and PBP and pretty much everyone gets. Its tired and scripted.
jelem wrote: » the Greens have proven beyond doubt they are not green as environment etc. just like the support by labour for a government It is for a large wage packet and nothing else. on topic of broadband they fail in fairness to citizens and even as transport oh yes top man yet break eu legislation and law with citizens suffering "but its not their fault". they should not have supported FF and FG as they have no power to do or change anything except aid "bus corridors" on fake remove car story line and force citizens to pay for overpriced electric cars that have a larger environmental footprint than what we have already ========== a little what they dont tell you and GREENS cannot counter hence fake party. with thanks to those whom inform The SECRET DARK SIDE of renewable electricity the press is hiding from you Daily Fodder Team - May 18, 2020 The “Praise the Lord” (PTL) empire that preacher Jim Bakker built with wife Tammy crumbled thirty years ago. Today, it seems like we’re being mesmerized again in the press and social media with the rhetoric about dispensing with the thousands of products from petroleum derivatives so we can save the world from human destruction by switching to industrial wind and solar generated electricity. Everyone knows that electricity is used extensively in residential, commercial, transportation, and the military, to power motors and lite the lights and make all our medications and medical equipment. But it’s the thousands of products that get manufactured from crude oil that are used to “make” those motors, lights, medications and electronics. We’ve had almost 200 years to develop clones or generics to replace the products demanded by society that we get from crude oil. The social needs of our materialistic societies are most likely going to remain for the products that have become part of our daily lifestyles, and for continuous uninterruptable electricity, not just intermittent electricity from wind and solar. Despite the preaching about these renewable saviors, it’s becoming obvious that due to their intermittency and unreliability, and their inability to replace any of the derivatives from petroleum that account for the all the products in our daily lives, societies around the world may not be too thrilled about needed social changes to live on just electricity. Electricity is one of those products that came AFTER the discovery of oil. All the mineral products and metals needed to make wind turbines and solar panels rely on worldwide mining and transportation equipment that are made with the products from fossil fuels and powered by the fuels manufactured from crude oil. A single electric-car battery weighs about 1,000 pounds. Fabricating one requires digging up, moving and processing more 500,000 pounds of raw materials somewhere on the planet. Never discussed by the GND or Paris Accord sponsors are the questionable and non-transparent labor conditions and loose, or non-existing, environmental regulations at the mining sites around the world for the products and metals required for renewables. To meet the goals to go “green” will most likely cause a rare earth emergency as those “green” goals require a massive worldwide increase in mining for lithium, cobalt, copper, iron, aluminum, and numerous other raw materials such as. A list of the sixteen components needed to build wind turbines are: Aggregates and Crushed Stone (for concrete), Bauxite (aluminum, Clay and Shale (for cement), Coal, Cobalt (magnets), Copper (wiring), Gypsum (for cement), Iron ore (steel), Limestone, Molybdenum (alloy in steel), Rare Earths (magnets; batteries), Sand and Gravel (for cement and concrete), and Zinc (galvanizing). A list of the seventeen components needed to build solar panels are: Arsenic (gallium-arsenide semiconductor chips), Bauxite (aluminum), Boron Minerals, Cadmium (thin film solar cells), Coal (by-product coke is used to make steel), Copper (wiring; thin film solar cells), Gallium (solar cells), Indium (solar cells), Iron ore (steel), Molybdenum (photovoltaic cells), Lead (batteries), Phosphate rock (phosphorous), Selenium (solar cells), Silica (solar cells), Silver (solar cells), Tellurium (solar cells), and Titanium dioxide (solar panels). The origins of the products for wind and solar are mined throughout the world, inclusive of more than 60 countries of Algeria, Arabia, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Congo (Kinshasa), Cuba, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guinea, Guyana, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, New Caledonia, Oman, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Republic of Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Suriname, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Western Sahara, and Zambia. The signatories to the Green New Deal (GND) and Paris Accord, to sunset the fossil fuels industry for a world surviving on renewable electricity would also sunset its own renewable industry that’s supposed to be the salvation for the world, as there would be no components to build the turbines and panels! All mining and processing activities to get the iron ore and other metals that go into turbine manufacturing, transporting the huge blade beasts to the sites, and decommissioning them, are all energy intensive activities that rely on fossil fuels and the products from crude oil and leave difficult wastes behind to dispose of during decommissioning. The useful life of wind turbines is limited, generally from 15 to 20 years, but none of the decommissioning plans are public. Mining projects, oil production sites, and nuclear generation sites are required to provide for decommissioning and restoration details down to the last dandelion. Would governments and greenies allow a decommissioned mine, oil or nuclear site similar latitudes given to renewable sites? We can be preached to forever about “clean electricity” messages, and bedazzle farmers with the prospects of on-going revenue from renewables. However, the extensive mining worldwide for materials for millions of wind turbines and solar panels, and the decommissioning and restoration details, and the social changes that would be necessitated for societies to live without the thousands of products from petroleum derivatives remain the dark side of the unspoken realities of renewables. The dark side of renewable wind, solar and biofuel energy is that they are not clean, green, renewable or sustainable, and they are horrifically destructive to vital ecological values that will last for generations to come. === Ron Stein is an engineer who, drawing upon 25 years of project management and business development experience, launched PTS Advance in 1995. He is an author, engineer, and energy expert who writes frequently on issues of energy and economics.
Bubbaclaus wrote: » Looks like they may be bringing in a 48 hour temporary travel ban, until cabinet meets on Tuesday to reassess the situation.https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/coronavirus-government-considers-48-hour-travel-ban-from-britain-with-likely-extension-1.4442011?mode=amp
Bubbaclaus wrote: » The initial part of your poster is illegible, and then you block quote the Daily Fodder, which to this day I'm still trying to figure out if it is a satire news source like Waterford Whispers or something closer to the Jim Corr line of thinking.
jelem wrote: » its not rte or irish times and as such if you are questioning a source rather than the content and the greens whom support the forced fake move to expensive electric cars etc.. there are amny whom have no idea what is required and if the details behind fake "green" bear their shouts for change which is just from one source of harm to a new money making way for the few. better you question why tax and duties levied on solar panels etc. when government and greens want you to go green== of course if you look at the figurs the companies are seeing growing profits. stock piles of new but unsold cars in europe due to citizens not having money to buy them this is another fail by government\s whom have raced to the bottom for profit whilst reducing earnings for citizens. it is just another path to avoid liability for their incompetance and lets go green and force new industry with new profits.
beggars_bush wrote: » Afraid to make a decision
ExMachina1000 wrote: » Do they not work on Mondays? Edit: No actually they are on holiday until the 13th of January.https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/dail-schedule/ Tuesday it is. Fair play to them
Bishop of hope wrote: » The govt work everyday, it's the opposition that take holidays.
Deleted User wrote: » Should be easily addressed so?
Bubbaclaus wrote: » So are we going to get LV vaccinating MM on live tv next week?
Bishop of hope wrote: » Could be. I read on some thread today that there's a, rumor Leo is on a foreign jaunt, but more likely he's getting trained up to deliver the first vaccine jab, Michael could be his first victim:D
Bubbaclaus wrote: » I'm sure Blanchardstown would be considered a foreign jaunt for some posters on here https://twitter.com/LeoVaradkar/status/1341036932143460354?s=19
Bowie wrote: » I hope he's there for something other than a photo op? Most vulnerable, during a pandemic. #notanormalparty
Bubbaclaus wrote: » I wonder how much of the overall bus network this is. Heading in the right direction finally at least.https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/tender-for-up-to-800-all-electric-double-decker-buses-published-1.4442911
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