{"id":620267,"date":"2026-09-10T10:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T10:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/620267\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T10:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T10:32:10","slug":"revenge-of-the-fossil-fuel-industry-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/620267\/","title":{"rendered":"Revenge of the fossil fuel industry? \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sir, \u2013 Miche\u00e1l Martin recognises vapes as \u201cthe revenge of big tobacco\u201d (\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/politics\/2026\/09\/08\/vapes-have-been-the-revenge-of-big-tobacco-taoiseach-raises-prospect-of-ban\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/politics\/2026\/09\/08\/vapes-have-been-the-revenge-of-big-tobacco-taoiseach-raises-prospect-of-ban\/\">Martin raises prospect of a vapes ban<\/a>\u201d, News, September 9th). It is a shame he doesn\u2019t recognise gas-powered data centres as the revenge of the fossil fuel industry. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">If he did, then maybe the Government could come up with a more sensible and environmentally sound policy than offering these facilities discounted gas while those attempting to use sustainable public transport are punished with disappearing buses and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2026\/09\/03\/bus-and-train-fare-hikes-to-be-announced-by-transport-authorities\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2026\/09\/03\/bus-and-train-fare-hikes-to-be-announced-by-transport-authorities\/\">15 per cent fare increase<\/a>. \u2013 Yours, etc, <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">BILL MURPHY, <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Clongriffin, <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dublin 13. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir, \u2013 Miche\u00e1l Martin recognises vapes as \u201cthe revenge of big tobacco\u201d (\u201cMartin raises prospect of a vapes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[5485,37635,246,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-620267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-energy-costs","tag-energy-crisis","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}