How long until we see €2 a litre and will it push more to EV's faster?

It's amazing how the EU regulates every aspect of our lives to ensure we do things better but couldnt foresee that relying too heaving on Russisn oil and gas was going to end in tears. Need to dramatically increase the size of the Commision to ensure it has to expertise to mitigate such future risks

Not sure if this is sincere, but one thing we do not need is a bigger EU

Sorry .. being anything but serious! The Commission is already a monster and yet it apparently didnt see this coming? Probably more important to focus on regulating the optimum shape of bananas.

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This won’t work for the majority.

Pt is stuck in the doldrums due to planning issues for example bus connects corridors, metro link taking an absolute age to get done, cycleways being objected to and that just Dublin. PT is non existent in rural areas. How many BEV busses do we have in the fleet at the moment?

Car pooling with covid? Best of luck with that.

EV won’t work either due to the debt people have to take on to get an EV if they have no debt on their existing car and that’s a sizeable chunk of the motoring population.

Walkings fine if you live within 15-20 mins walk from your house to your workplace, but I would imagine the vast majority that can walk do walk already.

Cycling, same as walking above but with the added danger of cycling on roads that don’t have segregated cycle ways due to councillors bottling decisions.

What percentage of the HGV fleet are BEV at the moment?

We are many years away from getting rid of diesel or petrol and that’s a reality.

Has anyone a list of companies importing Russian fuel/oil? Or a list of those that don't use them so people can buy from a station that isn't supporting them.

i thought all our diesel came from Russia no?

Off-topic:- Alexander Boris De Pfeffel Johnson can **** right off for that particular meme (in the old normal definition of the word) where the EU cares about the bend in bananas; he's the one when trying to be a "journalist" was fond of spouting these lies to the British public, attracting the attention of one Mrs Thatcher, and getting a slimy foot in the door of the Tories.

Back on topic:- It'll be very interesting in the next few years when Electric Vehicles will have a specific EV tax applied, likely part efficiency and part vehicle mass, that'll bring the yearly cost back up to the similar costs for IC vehicles. What will not happen is for IC vehicles to continually pay higher and higher amounts in yearly taxes and charges once EV becomes more commonplace. IC engine costs are not going to decrease, but EV owners are going to have to step up and provide support to the driving infrastructure that their heavier vehicles damages faster than similar sized IC-only vehicles.

Fantasy world.

Walk? With 20kg of groceries from the shop, woman alone at night, in the driving rain. Stupid suggestion.

Cycle, see walk add a few more like being hit by a car.

Public transport? Not enough capacity if we all did it, no good if carrying 20kg of groceries etc.

EV? Mined out of the ground using oil and coal. Destructive, expensive, not enough materials to implement large scale, lots more reasons.

Car Pool, yeah works in some cases.

You're falling into the hysterical motorist mindset unless you are a woman who only goes out at night in the driving rain with 20kg of groceries?

We need to reduce our car usage/reliance and the suggestions above by Dacor are perfectly valid. We're selling our second car later this year and we will be a 1 car household, looking forward to it.

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