"Green" policies are destroying this country

Did you actually read what was written or are you simply going to make stuff up?

In Europe the energy markets follow a marginal model, which means the final price of electricity is pegged to the price of the most expensive fuel required to meet projected demand. 

Look it up if you've never heard of it.

Some people have been bamboozled into thinking that renewables, which mean we have to burn less fossil fuels, makes us more vulnerable to price increases in fossil fuels.

In reality, renewable power subsidises fossil fuel costs

Its not your fault guys. The fossil fuel companies spend an absolute fortune on 'PR' to convince you to oppose renewable energy.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590332221002335

Not to mention their direct funding of certain 'contrarian' scientists, and funding of all of those shady 'think tanks' that exist only to spew out lies and provide clickbait for the anti science blogsphere and you tube channels.

Decades of this false narrative, corrupted debate and fraudulent scientific research and PR campaigns disguised as public discourse have done enormous damage and clouded a lot of people's judgement.

Absolutely nothing to do with was being discussed ie the Marginal model of energy pricing.

Eitherway it would be good if you would read comment in context to the topic under discussion and not use it as an excuse for Akrasia lecture 214T. Thanks

The current energy crisis has many root causes - not least which is the current model pushing renewable energy generation.

Yeah, because we still rely too much on Gas

because we're taking too long to harness our renewable wind resource and our interconnectors with the EU have been held up for years by nimby planning objections

Because our government has not prioritised modernising our energy infrastructure

That fact that the Foynes terminal is finally about to break ground is good news, but we should have been celebrating this 5 years ago and already have some of those offshore wind resources already generating power by now.

Lip service and half assing it caused these security of supply issues to creep up on us, so that when there is an actual energy crisis we're completely caught out

Are you suggesting Eamon Ryan objected to the electricity interconnector?

Because objecting to something that will cause more climate change is very different to objecting to something that is a crucial element in helping Ireland to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and to allow us to export green electricity to Europe.

There's a cohort of people, many posting here like yourself, who would love nothing more than for all renewables to be scrapped and all green measures gone and all the bogs tore up so every house had a roaring for every night.

I think it's just the pure loathing of the Green party and the Green movement. I find it truly bizarre because sooner or later we need to change our energy supplies and how we live and the foods we import and export, this war makes that quite obvious

The greens are hated because they are seen as frauds. There is so much they could do that would cost little and be easy to implement to vastly improve the environment and habitats. Instead, they focus on fashionable topics such as carbon credits and taxes, and are staunchly against farming and car ownership. If the environment depends on the greens priority policies to save it, it is finished.

maybe, we'll see

Wrong. I'm spending 10k on solar next month and I worked at a job 15 years ago where I was one of the first to introduce renewable energies and their benefit.

I'm behind renewables, I'm behind the benefit they bring, but, but notnat the detriment if the economy and putting pressure on people that can't afford it.

You need to remember that all the well heeled green voters are still well heeled as are their kids old enough to vote. They may be wiped out but we may be surprised, I know my vote and many others I know wont be changing, well heeled or not.

I'll be voting green because I think Climate change is the number one crisis facing Ireland and the world. I'm prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt and even allow them to make a few mis-steps because I believe that the majority of green party candidates are genuine, and any other party will prioritise short term populism over the tough decisions that need to be made for the long term

Not everyone will take this view, and I know that there are plenty of other things that people could prioritise over climate change.

Only in your own head. But if you're happy with that.