"Green" policies are destroying this country

If anyone attempted to apply logic or reason to the Irish greens on the banning of exploration licences for natural gas, where it is plain to see that the present gas fields will be depleted long long before we will still need natural gas to keep the lights on, they would be lucky not to think themselves into a home for the bewildered.

Even their attempts to do the same on LNG would have any sane person tearing their hair out.

The closest comparison I can give to their stance on LNG is Irish Catholicism under John Charles McQuaid. They appear to believe that any hint of LNG use in Ireland will corrupt this crusade they are on to singlehandedly, regardless of anywhere else, save the world based on their own made up ideology. They really are looking more and more like a cult.

Why have they banned gas exploration?

what do they gain from it?

We will still have to import gas.

What?

And that has been fully answered and yet you continue to deny, ignore, deflect and obfuscate the basic facts of the natural gas reserves which have been found and which have made up to to 58% of Irelands energy needs in the last 50 years.

What gives if you do nothing but post deliberate such misinformation?

Well for a start unless you see a United Ireland anytime soon I do not know where we will see "boys in Derry" in government.

The specific question I was asking you was on the legislation brought forward in early 2021 to ban the issue of any further exploration licences.

Can you remember who at the cabinet table brought forward that legislation ?

Not at the cabinet table, but then you do not need to be to propose laws. Last month Neasa Hourigan proposed the banning of LNG terminals. Can you tell us which political party she belongs to and how that proposal has been greeted by her party ?

Personally on their performance in government, especially lately, I look on them as muppets.

https://www.ft.com/content/a5df06cf-a11c-42bd-81b5-5e30ec3a64aa

This was published by the International Energy Agency today, simple ways of reducing oil usage with the shortages and price hikes. These guys know their oil, reduce speeds, car sharing, it looks like Eamon was right all along 😍.

Seriously what kind of ridiculous comment is that?

Afair your only half normal contribution to the thread was where you previously queried natural gas resource finds, to which I put together a comprehensive reply and to which you then made a half smart arse reply. And asked you to clarify and you didn't bother.

And here you're going against that old boards adage of don't be a dick. Well look if that's where you want the discussion to go you're on you own banana.

I didn`t notice until today that Eamon was our St.Patrick`s day representative in New York.

I have no idea how the decision is made as to who goes where on this particular junket, but whoever did make that decision would look to have a sense of humour sending Eamon to the city that never sleeps.

I wonder did he take one of those HiTech Racing Yachts across the Atlantic that the greens seem to like so much? He must have left ages ago to get there so.

On the off-chance he went by airplane I hope he told the airplane pilot to slow down as its very important to to save fuel.