I’ve Just skimmed over the Green Party’s Energy Policy available on their website, It’s 3 years out of date! For a policy as important as Energy to not be updated in 3 years clearly sets the tone for how important the green party see Energy In Ireland.
The contents of the document is nothing new, even in 2005 its was pretty old news. I think everyone knows that oil is running out, The use of alternative fuel sources is a must. But the over whelming facts that are coming to light now is that fuel from food is not a good idea. The Green party as a whole has to support alternative source of fuel but also the strategy for getting there has to be in the policy, I read a lot of wishful thinking and a lot of statistics about running out of coal/Oil are dependence on Imports. our(Ireland) reliance on Fossil fuel to power most of our power stations. For the for see able future we(Ireland) need strong policies with regards to energy, and the action to back them up. I do know that we cannot wave a magic wand an instantly have the same life style that we have consume ever increasing amounts of energy.
The Transport policy is a bit better in details but it still falls down in places.The introduction of new tax laws for cars does not go far enough, in my Humble opinion I think that the sale of SUV should be make so expensive as to put people off buying them. I don’t just mean the price of the vehicle but Road tax should be adjusted upwards to hammer home the point. We cannot ban them as this goes against EU laws…
They support the metro project which looking at the estimate cost, will be about 6 billion for 12km of track,thats a whopping 500 million per km. Now that has to be insane! Reading a proposal by railusers.ie which would extend the Luas,DART Service to The Airport. I think it would cost rather less that 6 Billion have these services put in place.
Why is the Green Party supporting the metro which is clearly a waste of money ?
Why is their energy policy 3 years out of date ?
My faith in the green party as a whole is rapidly fading away!