Charlie Weston
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1,990 appearances
20 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 2 Sep
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I just think there's just...
And so many people that don't have the option that we have of taking a dart or a train because we live in an urban area.
People are very dependent on their cars.
And I think their heavy fuel taxes, they've had a disproportionate impact on everyday motoring in this country for a lot of people who don't have options other than cars.
You know, and I was talking to my brother who lives down the west of Ireland the other day.
And, you know, he's having to...
his adult kids, he's having to drive them around a lot.
The provincial buses are rubbish, Matt.
Okay, they have improved, but they're not great.
So, you know, I just don't think it's appropriate to have so many levies and taxes on our fuel.
Today with David McCullagh · Hot weather, hot prices – rising electricity costs · 26 Jun 2026
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Yeah, there were two, as you say, system margin warnings.
I know people are probably saying, well, it's when the gap between electricity supply and demand is very, very tight and the air grid then wouldn't have the required operating margin or
It's operating margins not met.
So this happened twice this week on Tuesday night and on Wednesday night.
And it got pretty bad on Wednesday night where they had to bring in an emergency generator, which is based in the North Wall in Dublin.
Now it only had to run for about four and a half hours.
But the thing is, you don't get this happening in summer.
You just don't get it in summer.
It's very unusual.
And I've been talking to a lot of experts, people like Professor Aoife Foley.
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