"Green" policies are destroying this country

Why would this CBAM red tape affect imports from Germany or elsewhere in the EU though?

No mention of CBAM for motor parts in the article you linked to. Can you explain where this is provided for?

how much do you think the increased administrative burden would cost on €100m worth of steel or fertilizer? €50k maybe?

You are saying the ETS is part of the CBAM? It is not. The ETS is free standing. It’s been there for years before the CBAM.

And yet, I thought Lisbon V2.0 have us some autonomy over some of these issues.

You would think they'd do some road usage analysis before squandering tens of thousands of euro on segregation? Cater for the most beneficial to society first.

How much does all the bollards and concrete (or removable blocks) cost vs painting a few white lines?

I've no problem with giving over roadspace to buses or bicycles if it is regularly used as intended. They can have it all if it's justifiable. But only one bike between 10am and 11:55am is ridiculous. Yesterday was a working day, I'm not sure if it would be better or worse at the weekend, but I don't think it'd be a material difference. You could always argue that it was a bit breezy yesterday so the cyclists chose alternative transport, but then why cater exclusively for them on a generally windy island?

They've done stupid things like this everywhere too. On Mobhi road they have slowed all the buses down trying to turn onto the end of the Ballymun road/Griffith Avenue as they have removed a full right turn bus lane to allow for a 100 metre section of cycle lane that cuts across a junction that I've yet to see anybody use. Beautiful work altogether.

Supply chains are global, many raw materials come from outside the EU. The sectors most affected are fertilizers, iron and steel and aluminium. This was even before the Russian invasion, war aside, no way are the Russians complying with this. Many of theses raw materials are used to make car parts. CBAM is red tape, it takes time to process forms (+ later inspection & auditing), time is money, the extra cost is passed to the consumer either in terms of price or offset with a reduction in quality or extended delivery times.

Why bother with all this, Why not shut down production with in the EU and move outside the jurisdiction where you can get the raw materials without the hassle? That's exactly what is happening, CBAM is just another straw for the camels back. Companys and their shareholders (could be your pension fund) expect a return on investment, when production costs are lower elsewhere, they move.

The EU politicians and bureaucrats intention is to use CBAM to prevent EU industries outsourcing their production to countries that do not adopt similar levels of "carbon pricing", for EU consumers that translates to higher prices for car parts by locking out cheaper competition.

It seems that COP28 was useful in many ways some probably not expected by our self loathing representatives. It appears that there were quite a few juicy oil deals planned and since documents about this leaked they most likely did them in some back rooms :)

These deals should not really concern western world as we are clearly on a path of deindustrialization and will use green "biomass" so we wont need that much of oil anyway.

One of the issues I've encountered as a consequence of Brexit is obtaining garden plants and seeds that are not stocked by Irish suppliers. Most of the UK suppliers I used pre-Brexit are small operations and due to the cost of burden created by EU regulations they will not deal with with me directly. It's the same product, the overhead of the regulations is not worth it for them. I still want the product, I can't afford the regulatory cost either.

Large organisations can operate at scale, can distribute the costs of the regulatory overhead across the number of units they sell, that works out at a few cents extra to the end-consumer, the company accounts may show €100,000+ going on paperwork and compliance officer wages. There are other consequences, startup companies cannot meet these burdens that established companies can.

What startup company would be importing steel beams BY the half-tonne from India and using it to forge tiny quantities of spare parts? This is crazy fantasy stuff. If such an artisan car parts manufacturer Does indeed exist, they buy their steel and aluminum from a supplier within the EU. There is absolutely no analogy between you buying a few rhododendrons and availability of car parts in Germany.

That is exactly what is happening. German companies turn raw materials into useful products that are sold worldwide. By limiting the availability of both raw materials and energy, industrial production is curtailed. The companies are moving out to where they can produce. The ability of OPEC or OPEC+ cartel being able to set the price of barrel of oil has gone since the 1980s. Among other things, the green crusade pursued by EU nations has undermined their member nations energy availability and security in pursuit of magical thinking that the continents homes, industry and transport can be powered by intermittent wind and solar.

As the following programs from German broadcaster Deutsche Welle show, that inflection point is upon them. It is highlighting the migration of German industry and the brakes being put on German government spending. It is time for the pragmatism of Realpolitik to take precedence over green ideology, otherwise the abyss of de-industrialization and Malthusian #beyondgrowth takes hold.

CBAM is another straw to be loaded on the EU camels back, conceived in a world that enjoyed decades of unprecedented growth following the collapse of the communist bloc. A period that on the whole has seen the greatest rise in living standards for the worlds population in the known history of mankind. Last time OPEC created a bottleneck in energy supply, it contributed to mass famines in Africa during the 1970s & 80s.

You bought up the effect of geopolitics on price of energy, guess what happened to Pakistanis as Germany and other EU countries bought up all the LNG

• Pakistan plans to quadruple domestic coal-fired power, move away from gas (February 2023)
• Cash-starved Pakistan fails to secure LNG supply as no company responds to its tender (June 2023)
• Pakistan Buys LNG Cargo as Gas Shortfall Forces Fuel Rationing (November 2023)
• How Energy Traders Left a Country in the Cold (December 2023)

Let's imagine for a moment, the EU is somehow eventually successful with CBAM, thus forcing up the prices of raw materials and finished goods for the rest of the world, thus prices the finished products outside the ability of people on low incomes across all continents to consume them, it impoverishes people, it induces famine.

The point about the plants and Brexit is to highlight the economic cost and effects of red tape on small enterprises and consumers. Like Brexit, CBAM adds a regulatory hurdle that did not exist previously. There are quite a few small businesses that trade directly with non-EU countries for raw materials, you may have heard of Ali-Baba? Anyone hear of 3D-printing? Small enterprises can prototype their product locally and contract a supplier in Asia or United States to manufacture the product. The infrastructure is in place and it is being used.

To make spare parts a company needs energy, raw materials and labour. When the raw materials and sub-components are sourced outside the EU, the CBAM regulatory cost gets added to the input costs to produce the final product. That is just the starters, from 2026 CBAM goes beyond regulatory costs. That's when end consumers will notice.

CBAM is an additional cost in the production chain that is ultimately borne by the end consumer. For now, the CBAM overhead is the cost of implementing the regulation, from 2026 when the regulations has been embedded, the costs to the end user will noticeably rise, as will delays in production caused by obtaining the certificates. Some suppliers will find more profitable markets and not bother with the EU, others will find a way to game the system.

CBAM is red tape. Administration and audit trails cost time and money, this particular regulation adds no value to the quality of the end product, only cost.

“It’s an anti-dumping measure to combat illegal subsidy”. How is that the case? What would the illegal subsidy be that is being countered? Is the purpose not to prevent “carbon leakage” which doesn’t appear to have anything to do with anti-dumping or the prevention of market participant harm by dumping