You started the process

Which is the problem

You can't get a postage stamp between the lot of you

All those 'cheap' renewables are going to keep bills high for the foreseeable future.

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'David Latin, Serica’s chairman, said: “Government policy for the UK upstream sector has been erratic for decades but it’s become even more arbitrary and short term. That’s forced us to focus more on finding investment opportunities overseas instead of the UK in order to be

To be fair, the Conservatives' plans for oil and gas are not much different.

Leave aside the implausibility of Rachel Reeves's basic claim here.

The bigger point is that *no-one* - not her, not me, not anyone - can themselves 'run' an economy. The necessary knowledge in all its many forms is held by all the people in the economy. The price mechanism

Community Note: Baroness Brown is a non-executive director of Orsted (the offshore wind developer) and sits on the Climate Change Committee, so of course she's got her hand out for more subsidies.

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After shooting ourselves in the head with lockdown (£400 billion) we simply cannot afford a kamikaze pursuit of net zero.
Even if we achieved it by 2050 (not possible) it would make diddly squat difference to global carbon emissions.
Just No.

I thought you would be interested in this story from The Times:
We should be wary of a fiscal technocracy.
It’s such cheap energy it needs even bigger subsidies…. thetimes.co.uk/article/71f666…

I remember when it was sexist to reduce a woman to her choice of clothing. Seems like this election is going to be a Festival of Frivolity

Labour's new GB Energy, 'a new public energy company'. Taxpayers will own it, Taxpayers will pay for it, we will spend money buying expensive green energy that we are already subsidising, for what? To let China pump CO2 in the air for fun and out-compete British business.

Josh Young Petrochemicals derived from oil and natural gas make the manufacturing of over 6,000 everyday products and high-tech devices possible. Major petrochemicals—including ethylene, propylene, acetylene, benzene, and toluene, as well as natural gas constituents like methane, propane,

It is time for the election manifestos to call for the unaccountable, incompetent, opaque and defensive Climate Change Committee to be disbanded (link in reply).

The Drax biomass facility if a truly bizarre example of an energy “de-transition” from coal to wood.

Pre industrial 1750’s Britain burned 3.5 million tons of wood per year.

In the 2020s Britain burns 6 million tons of wood per year just at the Drax biomass power generation

Dr James Richardson Piers Forster

Defend why your organisation should not be disbanded immediately due to lack of accountability, extensive conflict of interests, and misleading parliament on multiple occasions:

cc: Climate Change Committee 👆👇

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This is spot on! we need a strategic pause on Net Zero. cc: Latimer Alder

If renewables are so cheap, why do they need subsidies at all, let alone adding renewables costs on to our gas bills?

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