Planned carbon tax hike will go ahead – despite soaring cost of living https://t.co/cpbkJ0QVqj
— Independent.ie (@Independent_ie) April 4, 2022
This morning.
Earlier…
Minister for Transport and the Minister for the Environment, Climate, and Communications, Eamon Ryan
This morning.
Via Irish Times:
Green Party leader Eamon Ryan said on Sunday he would bring a package of measures to Government next week to help with the cost of living.
Sources indicated this would include a public awareness campaign advising steps such as cutting out one car journey a week in favour of walking or taking public transport, taking shorter showers, not filling a kettle to the top if not needed and turning down the thermostat by a degree.
The package will also include more targeted measures, which sources described as “regulator-led”, designed to help those with energy debts obtain manageable repayment schedules and to ensure vulnerable people were on the cheapest tariff possible.
Take shorter showers and drive less to cut costs, Ryan to suggest (Irish Times)
He forgot to mention lighting a candle and all sitting around it?
Don’t be giving him any ideas.
It is actually a thing?
https://theprepared.com/blog/can-a-flower-pot-and-tealight-candle-create-enough-heat-to-save-you-in-a-cold-emergency/
Let’s hope he doesn’t read Broadsheet.
has it ever hit you,that some Irish people,you know the ones unlike you, born here,who have actual Irish passports instead UK ones,have absolutely zero interest in you soiling very single tread,why the endless need for attention ?
you have noting to add except some BS about a candle,its a pathetic cry for help you entire presence on here.
has it ever hit you, that some Irish people, you know the ones unlike you who actually live here, have zero interest in your incoherent ramblings in every single thread, why the endless need for attention?
you have nothing to add except bad spelling and a load of whine. Maybe the weed has rotted your brain
…yeah totally,my post’s on here have reached a whole new high,i mean just look around,i’m everywhere….every day all day every post,hysterical and hyperbolic much…
has it ever hit you people in the north ARE from Ireland, they have Irish passports too, eg : my Da
Speaking on mental health.
Can’t stop won’t stop.
How many,how many times have you sworn on here to to stop,how many….
It’s like a self help group for losers gone wrong,round here lately
get a grip you dose, it’s a comment site and while I ignore most of your crap I’m entitled to reply to you occasionally as is now the case,
what’s your excuse for hounding SOQ ?
Mental health slurs now, johnny just keeps giving.
…..I’m entitled…..
(smartest thing you’ve ever posted,just sub-comment that each and every time)
get over yourself you fool
I’ve seen that before but wasn’t encouraged to try it. I’d rather not be warming myself beside the smouldering embers of my home.
Is this Eamon’s “we’re living way beyond our means” bit?
Le deja vu, recurring, all over again, encore une fois, like bad flashback…?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzu1ToAxdFk
:-)
You beat me to it.
no micko, this is eamon’s ‘YOU are living way beyond YOUR means, cos i’m alright jack with my 100k plus per year’ bit.
uppity peasants expecting light and heat
In other news, Eamon Ryan has stated the government intends to go ahead with a 7.50 per tonne increase in carbon tax this summer.
The greens 3% in polls will soon hit 1 – eamon making sure the party never gets in power ever again
We can only hope. (I thought that last time the greens were decimated.)
Yes we’ll we’ve heard that before and yet somehow that gobpoo is in Leinster House, supporting the current circus show in the faint hope he gets his 15 mins as Taoiseach.
Well, Mr. T, I think that’s one Green Party policy we can all get behind. The problem is, the kind of electric-car-driving goons who vote Green are among the least likely to suffer “energy poverty” or any sort of poverty, for that matter.
Regulator led – the regulator is utterly useless.
He is killing the green party forever. He is the Marie Antionette of politics – let them eat cake. Totally out of touch.
Gluten free vegan carrot cake obviously.
Global wheat shortages will cause the gluten free renaissance!
Potato flour for all
Porridge bread all the way.
+1 LOL
This. All this.
I am concerned for our environment and future and may want to support the greens, but their leader is deluded and out of touch.
+100 he’s gone from trying to push environmentally friendly policies onto an environmentally-toxic government to fronting their environmental toxicity.
I often join the fragrant Lady TenPin in her morning shower.
Not to save water but because I’m a dab hand with the loofah.
I get to emit my usual greeting too – hello scrubber, meet scrubber.
I always laugh.
Her not always.
Then there’s the soap on a rope ….
This post should come with a warning.
Too late.
I’ve already read it and am wondering how often exactly does he need to wash his RealDoll and does he really think it speaks back to him?
We should start calling him Lars.
It did, the name of the poster at the top.
He is going to tell us all to get on our bike,
Let them shower in the sink
We were told about €9 meals and 9 pm curfews and 5km travel limits and a summer lockdown for Kildare and on and on and most people lapped it up. Ryan getting hockeyed out of it for this stuff though.
You think Eamonn Ryan came up with this idea on his own?!
Why Cold Showers Could be the Key to Beating Putin
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/cold-showers-could-be-the-key-to-beating-putin
“The least we can do is turn our backs on Putin’s gas by taking a cold shower and turning off the heating. Just four per cent of the UK’s natural gas supply comes from Russia, so collective action could go a long way. The invigorating thrill of a cold shower isn’t so bad once you’ve got your head around it. Some would say it’s actually good for you. The central heating doesn’t need to be on, why not put on another jumper? You could cover yourself in deep heat if need be. The government could encourage us by publishing daily reports on national energy usage, as we decisively reject Putin’s gas and help play our part in this war.”
TAKE THAT PUTIN!
That damn Vladimir Putin is to blame for all this I tell you…
Here’s a tip, stop blocking the private enterprise LNG terminals so we can purchase gas on the global market and stop our near complete reliance on the UK for gas.
I’m all for renewables, but it will be 10 years before we have built enough wind capacity to serve the country completely (including the necessary storage).
Even the regulator had to come out to say we are breaching EU law by being so reliant on the UK for most of our gas.
When figures for “renewables” are quoted, read the small print to discover they include burning wood in that figure, then read further to discover that wood-burning provides the bulk of that power. The most efficient wind system in operation is one in the UK where they use the randomly-generated power from the turbines to pump water to the top of a dam, where it’s released on demand to power water turbines on the way back down.
Wind & solar are never, ever going to replace carbon, in a carbon-based energy economy. Never.
It’s simply not that easy.
That’s certainly what the fossil fuel companies keep telling us.
Exactly, add to that the rate power is being consumed by current and futre data centers you would need to cover the entire island in wind turbines.
Solution ?
Nuclear power.
It is now, and always has been, the only show in town.
Nuclear waste, can be burned off in a fast breeder reactor.
This is certainly the way things are going to keep going if we don’t lean big-time into alternative, sustainable, secure energy. The government will greenwash with carbon taxes directed at end users rather than sources with big exceptions for users on industrial scales, all the while pumping in oil and gas and throwing up the occasional windmill on a protected bog. Ryan should be able to see this clearly – FF/FG are not committed to tackling climate change, and he’s cheerfully setting himself and the Green Party up to take the brunt of the blame for it.
Just cos you lie big and you lie often doesn’t mean what you say is true.
Is their no Globo Hoax you won’t get behind?
“alternative, sustainable, secure energy” does not exist. Hydrocarbons are the only way. Have you seen the environmental impact of lithium mines?
Abolishing the carbon tax is the short, medium and long term solution but no, Potato slimes about negligible to non-existant climate change imploring the hoaxers to “fraud me harder”
Your lies have no virtue.
*there
There, there.
Of course it doesn’t exist. The fossil fuel industry has been blocking, undermining, sabotaging, capturing and propagandising against it for decades, meaning it’s still barely in its infancy as developing technology, meaning the carbon taxes are indeed a sham, so long as billions are paid in subsidies to oil companies. There’s no secret cabal so evil as the entirely non-secret, open and flagrant evil of the fossil fuel industry.
As for lithium mines – have you seen the environmental impact of fossil fuels? It’s so all-pervasive and global you don’t even know you breathe it in and it shortens your life every single day, and you’re at the prveleged end of the pollution pipeline, there are tribes in South America that just get wiped out and entire jungles the size of provinces that get destroyed, and poor areas of the US where oil companies get official dispensation to up the cancer rates. Lithium mines are barely a blip in the environmental destruction stakes, but they are a compelling reason to focus on electrified public transport rather than individual private cars.
‘negligible to non-existant climate change’
There’s a lot of climate-driven famine ongoing right now for it to be regarded as negligible, unless those people don’t count for some reason. And we’re only at the leading edge of climate change.
Magnets. Lots and lots of magnets.
This is gold!
Margrethe Vestager, Danish politician and vice-president of the EU Commission
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD_6L_ktkM8
Uh, OK leader! (middle finger and all, lol)
” turning down the thermostat by a degree”
You can’t turn it down from ‘Off’
In fairness to the Minister, learning to balance a harp on one thumb was ministerial adviser tax payer money well spent.