2.5 Diesel @EamonRyan no Carpool or Cycling??? @greenparty_ie 🤔🤔😳😳 pic.twitter.com/32yvDVMYi4
— Cllr Christy Burke (@ChristyBurkGE20) February 12, 2020
Yesterday.
Kildare Street, Dublin 2.
Green Party Leader Eamon Ryan literally forcing us to suck diesel.
Any excuse.
Update:
He cycles the vast majority of time.
He has a ladder in the van, and was picking up posters. Maybe not something that can be done on a bike.
There’s nothing wrong with using a car when you have to. The vast majority of car trips are not necessary though, which is the issue.
— Micko (@inkling_micko) February 13, 2020
Um.
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The rural carpool stuff was stupendously out of touch but this sort of ‘gotcha’ stuff at green (and I don’t just mean the party) politicians in general is equally awful: see also: https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
That’s a minibus isn’t it?. Hope he has the relevant driving licence.
Is he taking down the posters by himself? Health and safety
‘Do as I say, not as I do’ is more like it.
Don’t believe you need a special licence for that size of vehicle. I rented a Renault Master recently to do a house move and my normal licence was adequate. Depends on the weight you are transporting.
If it’s designed for carrying more than 8 passengers you do need a specific license, even if it’s the same size as a van.
The licence also relates to number of passengers it can carry. The standard B licence allows up to 8 passengers plus the driver and weight up to 3,500 kgs. Also a light trailer, I think not more than 500 kg but am open to correction.
For more passengers and larger vehicles such as trucks you need the D licence. A D1 allows for more passengers such as a minibus with up to 16 passengers, but a large bus needs the full D licence.
He has a large family, and a kid with special needs – perhaps he was on his way to pick them up, and that was why he was driving instead of taking his bike for the first time in a blue moon.
Agreed, and with Class Wario’s comment above, silly stuff calling him out on being seen driving a minibus on the odd occasion. He’s carbon footprint is probably much lower than most.
ah now, surely the amount of sh1te he talks brings it right back up again?
Haha, possibly. I’m not a fan of his at all but I just find this particular one a bit petty.
You forget to mention the real reason he’s driving an internal combustion engine:
His utter and unashamed HYPOCRISY!!
With regard to the posters, here in Kildare they have been reasonably good at removing them so far, but still some remain. The local radio station invites people to call in where they see the posters still up and this is passed on to the candidates. Not quite naming and shaming, but it is effective.
The best one I heard is Cathal Berry of Kildare South, who had a team out on the Sunday of the count and apparently all were down that day. Fair play.
There was a pep in his step on Sunday though. The few that are still up around my area are mainly belonging to losing candidates.
dunno why they’re calling him out on it being 15 years old too. suppose he should be buying a new one each year and dump the old one into the sea
His party incentivised people to dump quite new cars to buy newer, often actually more polluting, ones in 08.
I had a look into this, it’s an interesting world motor emissions….
I thought I could lookup Mr. Ryans campervan there and get at the data and run a comparison to say a modern equivalent to see what the deal is…I’m struggling a bit, lots of islands of data, wrap-up combination of discrete measurement numbers, terminology…this seems to be Ryan’s yoke anyway I suspect:
https://www.car-emissions.com
VOLKSWAGEN Transporter Shuttle T30 (130 PS) TDI PD 2.5ltr 2006
CO2 emissions 230 g/km
Carbon Monoxide 0.089 g/km
NOx Emissions 0.747 g/km
HC+NOx Emissions 0.761 g/km
Particulates Emissions 0.043 g/km
I heard him say on an interview that it’s a biodiesel engine? I think it was to Ivan Yates when Ivan was interviewing all the party leaders?
Yes I heard him say he drives a biodiesel van also on a radio interview