Reading in the paper today, that the carbon tax is increasing soon. Nearly 90 euro on a fill of home heating oil, and gas prices are increasing too. The price of petrol and diesel is gone up to silly levels too. What is this tax going to fund ? Or is it just to punish people who want to keep warm ?

otmmyboy2 wrote: »

Inde

I would like to see if there were some better appeals process than the court system too, but doubt that'll happen in a hurry.

Still waiting on that Firearms Arbitration Authority that was proposed by Frannie Fitz,when she was pulling AGS out of the hot coals of the fire of their own making a few years ago.:rolleyes:tHat was supposedly going to be the stop between refusals and the DC..Never happened.

tudderone wrote: »

Reading in the paper today, that the carbon tax is increasing soon. Nearly 90 euro on a fill of home heating oil, and gas prices are increasing too. The price of petrol and diesel is gone up to silly levels too. What is this tax going to fund ? Or is it just to punish people who want to keep warm ?

What the fúck are those cúnts of Greens going to do for those that buy their kerosene by the 5 litres?

Sharpyshoot wrote: »

There will be another boom of insulating ones home.

Feckin annoys me to no end. There will be elderly people that’ll sit in the cold because they can’t afford to keep themselves warm. It’s not like there is an alternative available

Sharpyshoot wrote: »

There will be another boom of insulating ones home.

We got the house done, walls pumped, extra insulation in the loft and all that rubbish, the house is still cold half an hour after the heating clicks off

Feisar wrote: »

What the fúck are those cúnts of Greens going to do for those that buy their kerosene by the 5 litres?

Because in the very comfortable dublin 4 fashionable suburbs the greens exist in, things like that don't happen. I hope they get decimated in the next election.

Sharpyshoot wrote: »

They don’t need the next election. They have their job done.

Don't you believe it, there is always the next level of madness. Compulsory veganism or something.

Sharpyshoot wrote: »

I wouldn’t be up to speed on supports or help that may be available to elderly people or others. Have you requested help off your local td and councillors?
I feel myself that the elderly are always disadvantaged in relation to the younger society.
If one needs a council house or let’s be posh about it and call it a social house, do they really need it when you see them with a new car parked in the drive?
There really needs to be a shake up on government payees.

I'm not quite at that stage myself but it's those that are that these taxes hit.

Help of TDs, are to taking the pistachios? Them lads are there to make up numbers and to give us the faux idea that we live in a democracy.

Council houses... should be there as a helping hand, not a crutch that hobbles people.

Feisar wrote: »

I'm taking that as a random idea that they may come up with. I'm presuming you meant it in that fashion, it sounds like a mad idea?!? BUT these days yer some kind of phobe if you don't want to have sex with a "woman" with a raging erection in "her" skirt.

Partially, Boris Johnson was talking about drastically reducing co2 or something like that recently and it was worked out to meet the claims he made, the average person could only eat meat once a week, and then not a lot of it, and only use 2 spoonfuls of milk a day !

The buses in Dublin and i presume countrywide have full length advertisements telling people to go vegan, not veggie, full on vegan !

So while its a daft claim now, give it a few years and i'd say there would be massive taxes on meat and milk, and like the carbon tax, no one will bat an eyelid or fight against it, because if you did you would be attacked as being worse than Hitler.

Oh sweet jebus

Mellor wrote: »

Pumping the walls doing relatively little. You need a lot of glasswool in the attic. The floor is still bleeding heat. And warm air probably pissing out like steam from a pot of spuds.

A well insulated needs to be built that way from the start. Very hard to retrospectively correct design and build issues.

Not saying they are a waste of time. But they can only make marginal gains. The reality is old houses will be cold.

There is insulation under the floor.

tudderone wrote: »

There is insulation under the floor.

The amount of insulation is what’s doing to make the difference. It wasn’t long ago floors were poured on a few token sheet of polystyrene.

Edit:
To be clear, I’m not say the extra work you did was wrong or that you shouldn’t have. Far from it.
Just that there’s only so much we can do to existing house. These energy schemes are a start, but the government need to drop any notions that people won’t need to heat there house somehow. Oil, gas, electricity. It’s all gonna cost.

We really need to adopt nuclear power.

Cass wrote: »

Seen, or read, the other day that Ireland has the 5th highest cost for electricity in the world. Germany was the highest believe.

Yup.Because it has to subsidize the MYTH of being able to run an industrialized nation with almost every roof under solar panels and every little hillock having a giant bird mincer on it.:mad: Even in the most optimal conditions of a windy and sunny day, Germany couldn't produce 40% of its daily power by green methods...And still has to fire up 3 anthracite burning former E German plants to make up the loss.

There's a very strong environmental case for nuclear. Most of the objections are based more on dogma than science.

tudderone wrote: »

I believe the German Green party are currently the highest in the polls, above Merkels CDU ! Turkeys voting for Christmas

Yep, and it's got the German shooting community, both hunters and sports shooters on Defcon 1 status! The Watermelons are making gun and hunting bans and gun ownership in private residences part of their political manifesto and agenda.

civdef wrote: »

There's a very strong environmental case for nuclear. Most of the objections are based more on dogma than science.

I have nothing against it per se.Except here in Ireland. Simply because of our lackadaisical attitude to construction projects, that go way over budget, and the attitude of "Ah shure it will do !" and grift and graft and stroke pulling. Building a reactor is dealing with extreme elemental forces of nature where you can't afford to take shortcuts.

Could you imagine if a reactor containment vessel wall is built with pyrite-loaded cement because someone was on the take? Or some cheapo does some grift putting in GB HP pipe when it is stainless thats needed?

Plus, do we really want a real-life cast of The Simpsons running Ireland's answer to the Springfield nuclear power plant? There are enough Montgomery Burns, Waylon Smithers, and Homer Simpsons running the shop as it is, without letting them at a nuke power plant.:eek:

Anything goes wrong with one of these, and the excuse of "No one to blame, lessons were learned, we all must move on!" won't cut it if we are all glowing a faint blue, and our kids have webbed feet and an extra hand growing out of their heads and Irelands joins Pipriat as a ghost country?

I have nothing against it per se.Except here in Ireland. Simply because of our lackadaisical attitude to construction projects, that go way over budget, and the attitude of "Ah shure it will do !" and grift and graft and stroke pulling. Building a reactor is dealing with extreme elemental forces of nature where you can't afford to take shortcuts.

Could you imagine if a reactor containment vessel wall is built with pyrite-loaded cement because someone was on the take? Or some cheapo does some grift putting in GB HP pipe when it is stainless thats needed?

Plus, do we really want a real-life cast of The Simpsons running Ireland's answer to the Springfield nuclear power plant? There are enough Montgomery Burns, Waylon Smithers, and Homer Simpsons running the shop as it is, without letting them at a nuke power plant.

Anything goes wrong with one of these, and the excuse of "No one to blame, lessons were learned, we all must move on!" won't cut it if we are all glowing a faint blue, and our kids have webbed feet and an extra hand growing out of their heads and Irelands joins Pipriat as a ghost country?

Bit stereotypical & pessimistic, no?

We're well capable of doing big, high tech projects well when we put our minds to it. Look at Intel, they have countries lining up to have the Fabs, but they're staying here - and it's not just for the corporate tax rates (when it comes down to it big corporations pay frig all tax anywhere).

The biggest problem here we'd have is NIMBYism, and I'd get around that by building it in Leitrim. No one cares if Drumshambo or Mohill are the new Pripyat - who'd tell the difference?

Richard308 wrote: »

I’m pro nuclear. Even the Russians Rosatom have decent plants these days

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One would hope so after THREE major accidents:eek:[Leningrad, Srvedlosk and Cherynobyl] in the Soviet Union that they finally got it right.:)

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

Anyone got between 3to 7 thousand handy to save some Irish history?:(

2018 deactivation Nothing more now than a welded up high-tech and awkward club.:( Worse it is a "Red 9" Mauser that are worth a good bit more than the std broom handles.:mad:

https://bid.whytes.ie/lots/view/1-4J3HJ6/1919-21-war-of-independence-a-mauser-peter-the-painter-pistol?utm_source=Circulator&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Eclectic%20Collector%20Catalogue%20Now%20Online

Lovely, it'll wind up in some Irish-American's collectors on the other side of the Atlantic though.

Birdnuts wrote: »

And we will be importing plenty of nuclear via France when that interconnector gets built in Cork - probably a good thing too given Cabbage Head Ryans plan to leave our own grid stuck with a vast amount of useless windfarms

They want to ban lead shot because it kills birds, but the bird chopper wind turbines can work away. You couldn't make it up.

otmmyboy2 wrote: »

Anyone else following this:
https://mobile.twitter.com/PhilipDwyerNP/status/1388950006099546124

Not a peep from any news outlets that I could find.

Apparently a chap who filmed the guards raiding a church in Athlone was the victim of a dawn raid by AGS a week later who, acting on a complaint, took him to a garda station for a mental eval and Tusla removed his 2 kids.
Having been cleared yesterday morning he's trying to get his kids back still and seemingly getting stonewalled by AGS.

Supposedly he was told the complaint came from his mother who evidently has been deceased since 1997.

At least that is what I've gleaned from twitter posts thus far.

Yeah I heard about that too but there's nothing online about it apart from what the National Party is putting out. There's zero chance that RTÉ will even mention this because it goes against their narrative.

Did anyone else hear about a recent celebration being held in Dublin to honour some Rabbi from the 2nd Century? Apparently it was the biggest gathering all year. Funny how Catholics are banned from mass but Jews and Muslims can throw a party scot free.