"Green" policies are destroying this country

You seem to be placing too much emphasis on the term ‘target’. It’s important to remember that everyone has goals, and these were established quite some time ago. The focus shouldn’t be solely on achieving these targets. If an individual chooses not to purchase a new electric vehicle, it’s a matter of personal preference. Many people resist the idea of government intervention to such an extent that they refuse to buy an EV, and there’s little the government can do to change the minds of those who prefer older, outdated technology over newer, more efficient alternatives that could potentially save them money in the long run.

Your argument about the lack of Electric Vehicle purchases doesn’t hold water. EVs are a relatively recent innovation, and their adoption rate in this country has been satisfactory. How can one not adapt well to an EV? Could you clarify that? Based on my observations, the only individuals who struggle with EVs are those who don’t own one. Occasionally, you hear about someone who purchased an EV but couldn’t adjust to it, but I do believe a lot of these people are either made up or internet trolls. However, as demonstrated, EVs are more convenient for homeowners than ICE cars, and those residing in apartment buildings or cities have the option to use public charging stations. Currently, there is one public charger for every three EVs in Ireland. Those who aren’t purchasing them are either uninformed about them and will be late adopters, or they are similar to those who didn’t own mobile phones for a decade after their introduction. Then there’s the bloke who is set in his ways and perceives any EV owner as a trendy environmental activist. It’s just a vehicle. It offers numerous advantages over an Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicle, and importantly, it doesn’t emit any tailpipe emissions. This is the crux of the matter. Cease purchasing new ICE vehicles and contributing to tailpipe emissions in our cities and rural areas. Invest in an EV. It’s merely a vehicle. It won’t transform you into a Green Party supporter. Eventually, you’re bound to own one anyway.

Will you ever give me a break with the pontificating. Nothing I have asked you has anything to do with politics. It has been all to do with green policy, and the high possibility of the economic ruin of our economy by following a 37GW offshore wind plan + hydrogen that greens cannot even put a price on, let alone that it would not even provide the projected electricity requirement for 2050. If you cannot put a price to a proposal then it`s not a plan, it`s a wish list.

What has the "necessity of Green policy" achieved or hope to achieve by culling cattle here ? World demand for meat is projected to grow, (not drop as Greens would like us to believe), and Brazil alone is increasing their herd numbers to fill that demand. At best it leaves the Greens looking clueless. At worst a group that wishes to kill agriculture for no discernible reason other than they want to turn the country into a wilderness occupied by wolves, lynxs and whatever other lunacy they can dream of.

You do not have to be an agriculturist to see what would happen for food security or to the global food chain if greens got their way on pesticides, herbicides and chemical fertilisers. Sri Lanka will show you how that worked out.

For people who talk so much about following the experts when it comes to doing the same on their own proposals, ideology wins every time. On just one herbicide, glyphosate, they were told by the E.U.`s own experts that their noise on it being carcinogenic to humans was a nonsense and to ban it would result in a drop in yield that would result in an annual decrease of 24 million tons of wheat for export. The vast majority to countries in the developing world, while at the same time the E.U. was telling us that a failure to export 12 million tons from Ukraine due to Putin`s war would result in famine and starvation in the very same countries.Do any of that sound like an ideology on agriculture that anyone should have faith in to follow blindly which you appera to belive should be the case ?

The bookkkeping on CO2 emissions from energy generation and green electricity guarantees is another area where when the figures do not fit the narrative, just change the classification and ignore the realities. Even green advocacy groups, (and our own NGO an Taisce that is doing quite nicely out of this greening agenda), have called the emissions bookkeeping a farce. Yet somehow you are of the belief contrary to all of the above that we should blindly accept all this witout question from a collective that consistently show they have not got the vaguest clue.

And yet you go on about green nonsensical claptrap about people buying a car to be used from cradle to grave. Something which you yourself freely admit you dont do and presumably, although your online persona wont admit it, it would be a cold day in hell before youd subscribe to it. However, keep banging on about it as if anyone would take a blind bit of notice.

Strange because I see them almost everywhere lately, Ford Raptor being the most common down my way (Limerick) I'd say these 4WD off road vehicles take up maybe 10% of the cars I see on the road. The cost of refilling them has gone up lately as well which you'd think would make them less desirable

Same here and free roaming wolves and lynx would not make it any easier.

Yes definitely a massive increase

Still they'd cost a fortune to fill and no VAT back on petrol must be a killer. I'm not a fan of these cars myself but people who like/need them have no real EV alternative in this country either which is another problem