Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: Taxi driver42 on March 25, 2025, 10:42:08 am
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https://pentagroup.com/insight/leo-varadkar-joins-penta
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Our loss is their gain, I guess.
Bring back Dr Leo... Dr Leo was great so he was...
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Must be great to be the world's first comprehensive stakeholder solutions firm! They've got 24 managing directors according to their team page (https://pentagroup.com/team)...
Doesn't sound like there'll be much opportunity to help the poor people around the world with free money. Sad face.
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Were the incumbents third party only?
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Our loss is their gain, I guess.
Bring back Dr Leo... Dr Leo was great so he was...
Greatest cunt ever to arrive on celtic land ... I hope he has aids an dies a horrible painful death over many years ... I giv him the celt curse ... the cancer he deserves....startin in his arse hole workin it's way slowly all the way to his mind ... then his rotton empty soul ... I hope he suffers a thousand crucifixions... may the cunt rot in hell an burn forever
Evil beyond evil
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https://youtu.be/AbuLZM36LYQ?si=KDmtH1__4MxJk96T
Great film ...
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Best Taoiseach in the history of the free State by a country mile... gave me over €30,000 in used virtual notes... more than I've contributed to the exchequer in over 30 years of self-(un)employment.
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Best Taoiseach in the history of the free State by a country mile... gave me over €30,000 in used virtual notes... more than I've contributed to the exchequer in over 30 years of self-(un)employment.
You could get another circa €20,000 if you put your mind to it.
Vote Leo, Leo was great so he was...
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How?
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How?
EV.
Not a bother.
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I'm not sure what drugs one would need to equate spending 5 figures of one's own cash on a car one doesn't want or need to being given 30k in used virtual notes!
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I'm not sure what drugs one would need to equate spending 5 figures of one's own cash on a car one doesn't want or need to being given 30k in used virtual notes!
I reckon if'n the EV grant is still on the go next year that you will go EV, it's the logical step fer any driver with a suitable car fer scrappage + a driveway fer a home charger + a misses whom drives an ICE car.
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I'm not sure what drugs one would need to equate spending 5 figures of one's own cash on a car one doesn't want or need to being given 30k in used virtual notes!
I reckon if'n the EV grant is still on the go next year that you will go EV, it's the logical step fer any driver with a suitable car fer scrappage + a driveway fer a home charger + a misses whom drives an ICE car.
On a gross income of 30K, RC will be hard pushed to come up with €24K cash for his next purchase.
Creative accounting might help. 8)
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I reckon I'll have 24k in the capital account by year end, SB... that leaves a few months contingency. So far I've had to work one Golden Eight hour to meet a weekly target and might well have to resort to the same going forward. Other contingencies include reappropriation of the holiday budget and/or dipping in to the overdraft so I'm not really concerned about finance. It's spending money I don't want to spend that bothers me.
You may well be right, Ken but there's no guarantee that subsidies will be available when I want one. This year, for example, the relevant scheme is already fully subscribed although it will almost certainly reopen in a couple of months given that c.29% of applications actually result in grants being issued. What the options are aren't of huge concern to me TBH, I'll go with the flow in that regard. Either way i.e. new EV or decent second hand diesel I doubt I'll get out on less than my €24k budget.
Considering my last car cost €12k, it's a huge commitment by comparison and I don't, in any way, equate being forced to spend that kind of money to replace a perfectly good car as being given free money in the way Dr. Leo gave us free money in the form of PUP and PTSE.
Bring back Dr. Leo... Dr. Leo was great so he was....
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A few things to consider in your case Stephen, firstly lets not forget about Mrs Catcher whom if'n you go EV and have to use the MK111 fer the scrappage grant, then she is still stuck with the now very old MK11 as opposed to upgrading to the MK 111 if'n you buy the 2nd hand diesel.
Also the price of used vehicles has gone nuts since Covid/Brexit but at least if'n you take that option then Mrs Catcher gets her updated MK111. On the down side of that is that you only get a partial 10 year licence.
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I am considering all of that, Ken. Obviously the longer I can keep the MKIII the closer it's value will get to the €10k on offer. There is another dimension though. If I pass the MKIII to Mrs. Catcher it would be deemed to be at OMV for taxation purposes which, even using Revenue's VRT calculator to ascertain value, would give rise to a significant balancing charge. I could avoid that by taking the scrappage and using that money to source a motor of equivalent value. With the scrap value being zero the money received would merely reduce wear and tear allowances over an eight year period rather than having a balancing charge in one lump.
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As a relevant aside, I'm not completely opposed to maintaining the MKII Ken. It is an extremely good car and very cheap to maintain with no DPF and a manual gearbox... throw in classic car tax and insurance in due course and it's certainly an option!
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As a relevant aside, I'm not completely opposed to maintaining the MKII Ken. It is an extremely good car and very cheap to maintain with no DPF and a manual gearbox... throw in classic car tax and insurance in due course and it's certainly an option!
Classic status is after 30 years fer motor tax.
Fer classic insurance it must be a 2nd car that the person owns.
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Over halfway there for the tax... but more relevant Mrs Catcher loves the environment and is convinced that maintaining cars is far kinder to the environment than scrapping them when one considers the environmental impact of manufacture, mineral extraction, shipping etc... and that's without taking into account the proportion of electricity that's generated by burning fossil fuels!
Obviously if one was allowed scrap the MKII instead of the MKIII that would negate the damage to the environment to a considerable degree but that's not allowed under the rules attached to ESPSV grant aid schemes to date.
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Ther are alternatives to using fossil fuels rat ... the problem is oil is cheap.. ... and the human Ape is greedy ...
If everyone kept ther car for 20 yers the world economy wud collapse ...let me explain...we can already see the impact on the german economy as a result of their faltering car industry tru ther lack of innovation an stubbornness in continued production of a 19th century technology ... the diesel engine ....
If everyone kept ther car for 20 yers the result wud be mass unemployment in car factories, haulage ,shipping ,dealerships ,advertising etcetera etcetera etcetera.... climate change wud accelerate with increased emissions. ... the older the engine the higher the pollutants .... then thers increased numerous cancer diagnosis and increase in road deaths statistics due to vehicle safety standards not advancing and more frequent mechanical failures ..... in short it wud be catastrophic
Yu really need to retire the fred dibbnah in ya an help save the planet ...go on .... get an EV .. yu know yu want one
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