"Green" policies are destroying this country

You forgot main difference. If you run out of fuel you can find petrol station literally on every corner and tank upp full in 2 minutes.

With EV you will have to look considerably longer and if you are lucky and there is not a queue in front of you then you will have to wait quite some time to fuel up.

My point was not comparing EV with ICE cars. I was pointing out that our grid is not built to support them in any meaningful quantity. Mainly considering idiotic ideas of banning ICE cars by 2030.

As for secondhand EV's have a look how much cost replacement battery.

This is common problem with green disciples. They do not think about stuff they hear, they simply believe what dear leader say.

Then you hear about all those fantastic ideas which so far exist on paper only or as a small r&d projects. But hey, someone somewhere figure that out so they hope.

Let us put heat pump in every house and ban ICE cars because something somethig hydrogen, miracle new batteries and someone sure figure out where we get all that copper and steel needed for rebuilding our grid.

As long as those mines and smelters are way out of sight somewher in Africa or Asia because we want to pretend we live in green paradise.

Unless Tesla improves its quality, collision repair costs, and residual values, the second-largest rental fleet in Europe (and fourth-largest in the U.S.) won’t include cars from the American automaker.

It's not a conspiracy. Green campaigners have been calling for a way to ration long haul flights in a fair way.

If some people take frivolous weekend breaks to New York several times a year, they are using far more than their fair share of carbon emissions, while others might need to take a long haul flight to visit a dying relative or for legitimate business reasons.

There are 3 ways of restricting Co2 emissions if there isn't a way of reducing the pollution from a technological solution.

1. increasing the financial costs of pollution for everyone, (this impacts the poor andand middle classes while barely affecting the rich who are already the ones using way more than their fair share)

2. Target the cost increases to the heaviest users by giving people a reasonable allocation with increasing costs for going above this. Should have the most impact on the most wasteful users)

3. Impose strict rations (would be unworkable as some people travel as an integral part of their job and this cannot be avoided or would lead to corruption)

A carbon passport would work as a reverse 'air miles' system. Instead of rewarding frequent flyers, it would penalise them. Maybe that meeting can be held over zoom instead of in person after all

Also, you really shouldn't be poisoning your brain by reading sites like Modernity news. It's not good for you.

And yet it's just as believable as your figure of 26 billion for 4 nuclear reactors in Ireland

The actual cost of creating electricity from ammonia in a converted CCGT station (like the one they're converting in Whitegate) will be about 30c per Kwh if the cost of Ammonia is about a euro per KG which it's projected to be if the hydrogen is generated using surplus wind power at low costs per unit

As a reserve emergency backup power source, this is reasonable.

Backup power is always much more expensive than the baseload power because it uses expensive infrastructure that doesn't benefit from efficiencies of scale

Here's the cost of Ammonia production. Focus on the green lines. This is ammonia from hydrolysed Hydrogen. It depends on the cost of the electricity used to power the reaction.

One of the arguments is the cost. The other is the fact that in Ireland there would be so many objections and challenges that the things would never get built

Even if they were free, they're no good to anyone if it takes 30 years to build them

It's taken 2 3 decades to not even finish a children's hospital that people actually want to live near

https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2023/06/20/national-childrens-hospital-timeline/