"Green" policies are destroying this country

It’s a deflection of the issue and no help to solve the problem of unsustainably high prices. It wasn’t just patronising of Ryan, it was ignorant.

Come out the fog, speech impediment my arse, he couldn’t even remember the name of the country, is that you Eamon?

Maybe because the entire contribution of Ireland towards the small Anthropogenic fraction of CO2 in the Atemosphere since 1920 is a whopping 0.13% Knock yourself out, though...

To be perfectly honest I didn`t see where the link you posted added to anything. I found it as ambiguous as Ryan`s utterance when it comes to the most efficient driving speed for fuel consumption.

For me Ryan`s mutterings came across as nothing much more than either condescendence from a Minister completely out of his depth without a clue how to deal with the problem, or that he could not care less about the problem.

Either way, not a good look for a Minister for Transport.

Not for the first time you pushed that line in this thread, where do that numbers from? They are counting NOT taxing fuel in airports and farms and fixing potholes as subsidies, in other words they are making sh!t up to suit an agenda. Here is the actual source report for that number.

The weather has been quite windy lately, even so take a look at this graph.

The gap between forecast and actual is 1,077 MW and it happens during peak consumption at 19:00 when there is no sunshine. You are making the claim that although wind power is variable, it is also predictable. After all, we are assured, weather forecasts are now so accurate that they can predict wind speeds in advance. That is not the case. I watch this dashboard semi-regularly more often than not the forecast is above actual delivery.

Fortunately the country has the CCGT capacity to fill these gaps. You can triple or quadruple wind capacity which is the stated intention, all this means is when the wind blows the turbine generators go broke selling below supply cost electricity to the grid while the Coal/CCGT genarators can demand a premium to make up the deficit caued by random energy, they can even engage in below cost selling for short periods knowing they will make it up later. In Green finance land they think this is a sure winner because the "supports" guarantee the trade, they should pay attention to what happened in Spain in the aftermath of the 2008-2014 crash or at least try to offload on the pension funds before the bottom falls out of the market. . . .

Back when I was learning to drive my granddad told me every time you use the accelerator or the brake you're giving money to the government

Its amazing people here defending this clown when nearly half his own party have no confidence in him.

Oh and if I fell asleep when I was supposed to be working I'd be fired.

The most fuel efficient operating mode of an ICE engine is during maximum, open throttle acceleration. Weirdly counter-intuitive.