Jim Power
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No, no, it's quite extraordinary.
Chris, I wanted to come back for a second to bounce a question off you, really, about the government's package that was introduced or announced here in Ireland on Sunday.
Basically, it is a massive subsidisation of fossil fuels, OK, diesel, petrol and so on.
So that's one thing.
And at the same time, you know, government is gradually increasing
dismantling the incentives for the adoption of EVs in this country.
And there's all sorts of rumors going around about what might happen to the EV incentives in the budget in October or even sooner.
So
If you believe in climate change, which I do, if you believe in the necessity to address greenhouse gas emissions, I mean, the move towards EV and away from fossil fuels has got to be encouraged.
But yet, here we have populist politics at play again.
What do you think of that as a policy?
Hmm.
Let's people think I'm a total EV advocate.
A couple of weeks ago, one Thursday night, I was trying to charge my car outside Limerick in a fast charger.
And the problem is that every EV charger you go to requires a different app.
And there I was with a...
an app I hadn't used before, trying to set it up and it was pissing rain on top of me.
There was no cover over the EV charger.