Hannah Daly: Gli irlandesi stanno ancora una volta pagando un prezzo elevato per la nostra dipendenza dai combustibili fossili
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/03/11/united-states-israel-iran-oil-gas-fossil-fuels-cost-dependence-renewables/
di zainab1900
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Nuclear power. Inevitable, and for some reason never addressed or taken seriously. We can be completely energy independent if we had one.
All those windmill parts come from China.
Apparently the home heating leap is due to using kerosene rather than diesel as elsewhere
We can’t fix it overnight!
– FFG (in government since 1949)
>Countries reliant on imported fuels are exposed not only to this market volatility, but also to the strategic decisions of fossil fuel producers. Europe learned this lesson painfully when Russia restricted gas exports after invading Ukraine.
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Imagine how different the impact of the current war would be if Ireland had accelerated climate action, were already powered by domestic renewable electricity and had fully electrified transport and heating.
Ireland is no different than any country in the world with few exceptions of petrol states. Literally the whole Western world is affected by raising prices of oil and gas due to this.
The magical thinking in this article is like me saying that if I just build off grid cabin in the mountains with my own vegetable plot I wouldn’t be affected by raising food costs. It is true but it is not realistic and will not happen at the time scales of people that are currently alive. Also the technology to electrify transport is not mature enough for this to happen.
Even the most ambitious targets do not assume we will stop using fossil fuels for all applications, they only assume the leftover usage will be offset by activities like restoration of forests to make that use carbon neutral.
When it comes to electricity, people are paying a high price for our governments obsession with privatisation.
What about taxes?
Aren’t they like 50% of the cost?
We have seen rises in price despite the rise in renewables. It’s a case where it makes virtually no difference. Hell microgen from your own solar panels gives you 18c for every kw you send out and it will be taxed vs the approx 42c per kw you take in depending on your provider. I get it woooo the environment but save the nonsense that we would have cheaper electricity with renewablesÂ
Wasn’t she the one on twitter that used block those that disagreed with her, unblock them late at night, post a snarky response and then block them again so they wouldn’t be aware of her reply?
And then decamped to Bluesky when she started to be called out on it?
I’m not sure she’s a person we should be taking advice from, tbh.
The EU continues to drag its heels on decoupling prices from gas
Aren’t we producing up to 60% from wind turbines sometimes and still have the most expensive electricity in Europe?
Just returned from Costa Rica where pretty much 100% of their electricity is renewable. Also increased forest cover from 20 or 30% to 60% since the 1980s. Where there’s a will there’s a way but coward governments and nimbys run this country.
Let be real here if we went majority renewables do you think these companys are going to let us get away with low energy prices?
€100 it cost me to not even fill the tank. I need heating oil too and when I saw the price I just said we can just stick out the rest of the winter with no heating. If it gets too cold we will go tenement and just huddle around and electric heater in one room.