Philip Boucher Hayes

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3,375 appearances 85 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 6 Aug

Philip Boucher Hayes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 85 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 58.

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Today with David McCullagh · Do we need to extend excise cuts on petrol and diesel? · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

If you even spent a small proportion of that on the alternatives, presumably you'd be in a better place. voice-verified

Lisa Ryan, would you endorse what Ger is saying? voice-verified

Is it that difficult, though? voice-verified

Because every energy expert that I have heard talking about this in the last while has said, regardless of whether the Straits of Hormuz are blocked or are freely flowing, voice-verified

that the new world order is one where oil, Brent crude, is going to be at the $85, $90 a barrel. voice-verified

Yes, it'll occasionally go above $100 a barrel, but it's going to be significantly higher, several orders of magnitude higher than it was seven, eight years ago. voice-verified

And that's just the new world order. voice-verified

Does that not make a pressing case for taking some of that voice-verified

€5 billion of taxpayer subvention to fossil fuels and investing it in the infrastructure for biomethane or for HVO. voice-verified

Ger, a question about biomethane and then come back to you on it. voice-verified

In the real world, do these trucks work, Ger? voice-verified

Because I've seen claims from manufacturers that you'll get 820 kilometres out of a biomethane HGV that's fully towing a full load behind it. voice-verified

Are those claims for real or is the actual real world performance a lot less than that? voice-verified

But if you have a shorter range, then what you need is a better network of places that you can pull in and fill up with biomethane, isn't it? voice-verified

It doesn't necessarily rule it out. voice-verified

It doesn't exist in the way that it needs to at the moment. voice-verified

So, Lisa Ryan, at the moment, our biomethane strategy is to take whatever is coming out of anaerobic digesters and pump it into the gas networks, Ireland pipelines. voice-verified

Would we be better off sending it off to filling stations? voice-verified

We would get much better bang for our buck putting it into filling stations rather than making the natural gas in our pipelines a little fractionally bit more renewable by putting biomethane into those pipes. voice-verified

All good points to debate. voice-verified

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