Carmakers urge scrappage renewal

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Trade in yer old 750 kW wind turbine for a shiny new 2 MW job and we'll throw in a couple of grand too, plus the costs of the planning enquiry you have to have even though there was already a turbine there...

Now the interesting bit, apparently all our old wind-turbines get refurbed and off to live another day in places like Russia!

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Listening to RTÉ this morning cheered me up. Alan Nolan, director general of SIMI (the Society of the Irish Motor Industry) gave a truly bumbling interview. He obviously didn't realise he would have so much time to speak, filling it out with some truly non-earth-shattering generalisms and platitudes regarding the recently-announced car scrappage scheme and prospects for the industry.

Car sales last year were down 70% on the previous year. So, back to a normal level for Ireland. Presumably the industry had thought sales could grow year after year without end. He mentions 'moving the graph up' a couple of times and reckons the 'worst is behind us'. That's alright then!

I have a feeling that, behind it all, he knows the good times have gone and were merely an aberration but he has to put on a brave face to keep his job. He could hardly say, "Look lads, there'll be no more growth. Deal with it."

This is a classic, Alan. Ahem:

"Unless we get back to life as normal we won't get back to life as normal."

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Sounds as if Nolanballs is the new Colemanballs!