Net Zero goals to turn the electricity system green risk the lights going off, MPs on the powerful Public Accounts Committee have warned, as they suggest that Government policy should be for “people not to have cars”. The Telegraph has the story.
The Government wants the electricity system to be fully green by 2035 by boosting wind, solar and nuclear power to end reliance on coal and gas.
But MPs on the powerful Public Accounts Committee have cast doubt on the credibility of the plans, and called on the Government to come clean on costs to households.
Despite the ambitious push for renewable power over the last decade, around 40% of the U.K.’s electricity is produced with gas. The country is only at 25% of the necessary capacity for nuclear, solar and offshore wind to hit the 2035 target.
“There are just 12 years left for the Government to meet its low carbon energy target, and much still to do if this is to be achieved – and at a cost the taxpayers and bill payers can bear while ensuring the lights stay on,” Dame Meg Hillier, the Chair of the committee, said.
The report said the committee was “sceptical that the Government’s plans for expanding nuclear, solar and wind power are credible.”
The Government is also failing to take into consideration the full potential for electricity needs to grow to meet the demand for technology such as electric vehicles and air conditioning, Dame Meg said. As a result the Government may need to step in to nudge people to change their behaviour such as reduce car use, she said.
“We’re going to have new demand in electric vehicles while we’re still trying to ramp up on green technologies to meet the capacity. Is that capacity enough to meet the new demands?” said Dame Meg.
She added: “Going electric is all very green and clean, until we have too many people going electric.”
“Maybe we just encourage people not to have cars and that could be Government policy.”
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Yet another conspiracy theory coming true
And what will people have instead of cars..
…. 15 minute ghettos.
I think I see a plan taking shape.
If we have Government which instead of advancing the health, security, wellbeing and prosperity of those whom it serves (Ha!), is actively seeking to impoverish them, make them miserable, make them less healthy, starve and kill them – why do we have Government?
Yet another call for us to be “nudged” towards adopting this Net Zero nonsense. It’s as if they’re admitting that it can’t be achieved without sending us all to penury. But instead of stepping back and scrapping the plan, they’re doubling down on the mind games recommended by the HoL and the nudge unit. This has got to stop. Now.
https://davidturver.substack.com/p/net-zero-behaviour-change-mind-games
If Dame Meg thinks going electric is ‘all very green and clean’, I suggest she does a two week stint in an African cobalt mine. You never know m, she might enjoy herself so much she doesn’t come back.
Who is this Dame Meg and why would I listen to her or any of these idiots? EVs etc are ungreen and rip out huge chunks of goddess Gaia’s skin. I am sure Dame whatever will still have her expensive Insert_here brand of choice and chauffeur. For us peasants,
scooters,cycles,horses(sorry, murdered to save Gaia), shoes. Uncle Klaus says evthg will be digital, so no need to leave yourhouse, rented box.Shoes? You’ll be lucky! Without rubber for the soles it’s back to wooden clogs for us oiks.
Wood? You’ll be lucky. They’ll be using that as the ‘green’ eco-fuel they burn at Drax. No leather cos they hate cows.
So, rags it is!
“You never know m, she might enjoy herself so much she doesn’t come back.”
Oh I wish.
Meg should make a stand and introduce a bill banning politicians from using private transport
Yes and a heat pump to heat the Commons.
Or better still, a wood burning stove, an axe, a saw, a cart and a map to the nearest forest.
Now there’s an idea!
Now that is a really impractical idea, so they may even try!
Also taking away their chauffeur driven cars.
No Government cars either, there are thousands of them! It is difficult to even contemplate how deluded these people are. And we are in severe economic difficulties, this will stop a lot of people getting to work, in the jobs where they cannot “work from home”. Economic ruin on top of disasterous energy shortage. Mad, it must be the white powder they all take now!
Dame Meg Wiki: private girls school, Oxford PPE, Islington Mayor, voted to close Post Offices, Ardent Remainer, ID Cards promoter, DBE for political and parliamentary service.
A real chocolate fireguard then.
More like a condom in a convent.
A Chunt of Epic proportions then !!!…
The PAC committee which made the recommendation that we should not have cars is made up of these people:
If you are in the above constituencies please do not vote for them at the next GE.
Never voting for any of the main stream ever again. I think as Robin Williams says
“Politicians should wear sponsor jackets like Nascar drivers, then we know who owns them”
Never, ever vote for any establishment party candidate is the best advice.
You did your homework on that (well done) ——-I saw Grant Schapps on GB News about 2 weeks ago. He was asked if heat pumps were as good as gas central heating. ——-Absurdly and shockingly his answer was “I don’t know, but I am having one fitted soon so I will find out soon”————–WHAT? The Energy and Climate Change Minister wants to rip out the best central heating we ever had and give us heat pumps and he doesn’t know if they are any good? —-These people are morons, but he isn’t alone the whole of parliament is full of them and NET ZERO was simply waved through with no questions as to cost/benefit ever asked. Which means that we really should not be voting for a single one of these UN and WEF lackeys———I wonder what Mark Twain would have said (wink)
COP 28 is taking place Nov/Dec this year in Dubai. Picking up on the official thinking on travel I assume the UK delegation will be travelling to Dubai in a flotilla of coracles made from willow, wattle and other sustainable materials? And also that no UK Minister, Official or Royal Family person will ever fly by plane again, certainly not on any sort of private jet?
Absolutely. And when the flotilla finally arrives (better set off now), definitely no cars to pick them up from the shoreline. Nothing wrong with a bit of shoe leather or a bicycle.
No they are flying on the backs of school children who identify as unicorns
Government can encourage me all it likes. It could start by lowering taxes and leaving me alone.
Meanwhile, Dame Meg, you can go f*** yourself with your silly suggestions to government. Who the heck made you a Dame?! (rhetorical question)
Dame Meg – whoever she is – has taken as fact that Net Zero is necessary. Given that a Net Zero outcome is the only option being considered the suggested means of achieving it are not going to be arrived at in a fully considered manner.
What the Public Accounts Committee appear to be stating is that the push for Net Zero will cause problems and the only way to resolve said problems is to take cars and the right to travel away from people. An eleven year old could defeat this logic.
Unless of course the PAC are being deliberately stupid and pushing a faux warning so that when the charade goes tits up they can all say – “well we did warn you.”
Complete and utter BS.
I remember my old Dad telling me about how, when he was young in rural Norfolk, Temperance was a big thing, alcohol was the devil’s brew and the Band of Hope was your salvation from the clutches of the demon drink and people were encouraged to sign ‘The Pledge’. All of which now seems to reflect the position of ‘Net-Zero’ as our modern day Band of Hope and we must all sign the pledge against the demon carbon.
As an older person i am puzzled as to why people feel the need to go around inventing these problems? The World is a wonderful place, I have been out today on conservation work in rural North Devon, hot and sticky but the natural world here is doing fine, there are loads of biting insects around who were all keen to have a go at me!. The climate seems much the same as when I was a boy. the tides seem to go up and down to much the same sort of place as they ever did. I am sitting here having a beer looking out across an incredibly verdant Torridge Valley, a veritable 40 shades of green. Why cannot people be like me and just be relaxed and happy in this wonderful world?
Wonderful sentiments. I have similar feelings when I am out building walls.
Because that doesn’t give these people power and wealth.
“The climate seems much the same as when I was a boy”————Except this isn’t about the climate. The climate is simply the excuse for the policies of controlling the worlds wealth and resources. They call it “Sustainable Development” don’t you know?
“There are just 12 years left for the Government to meet its low carbon energy target”
No sign that Dame Meg and her bunch of brain dead dwarves have even thought about the sheer stupidity of a “low carbon target.” No signs that carbon has even been assessed for any impact it might have on the planet. No acknowledgement that without carbon dioxide everything dies. And we pay these people.
I firkin despair!
Just 12 years left to meet a target simply plucked out of thin air that has no basis in science, will cost astronomical sums that politicians won’t even discuss, and they have no idea how it can ever be achieved or it technologies can even be invented and what they might even be. ———————–This is like me deciding I will be a billionaire by 2030. I decide to but lottery tickets in the hope I win 14 million, and then put all of that on some horse in the 3.30 at Kempton at 10/1. I then take my 140 million and invest it all in time shares in Portugal for 5 years before betting greyhounds for the last year and half and finally becoming a billionaire on the 28th of December 2029. ——–Phew that was close
Dame Meg “Maybe we just encourage people not to have cars”
Maybe Dame Meg we the people encourage you to sod off.
Maybe Dame Meg would like to show us how this no car malarkey works in real life. She can surely manage with the tube and shanks’s.
No she must also be made to live in the middle of Dartmoor in a tent! No Tesco delivery (probably Waitrose for her though) and strangely no Public Transport. She would be dead in a week, or less with luck.
It just shows the lack of wisdom when it comes to understanding of the nature of change. That is the first thing I look at when assessing a person’s character. I don’t know what to say, that we have fallen so low.
“People not to have cars”. ————-Scenario (1) You work 5 miles from your house and you start at 8 am. If you leave at 7.40 am you get there in plenty of time to have a coffee and a wee read of the paper before you start. ———With the “not to have a car” policy, you might have to do the following. Get up 40 minutes earlier, walk in the pouring rain to the nearest bus stop which might be 15 minutes away (if your lucky) and the bus you require might only be every hour meaning you need to leave 30 minutes earlier than you would if you used your car. You then need to walk another 15 minutes in the pouring rain and finally get to your place of work all hot and sweaty 35 minutes before you need to. ———————–What kind of miserable human hating cretin would want to persecute people like that? The answer is —–Pretend to save the planet eco socialist bureaucrats who are so power hungry they would control how you cut your toenails if they could. They would simply provide funding for their “scientists” to do a study showing toenail clippings endanger our children’s future and suddenly we will have a little receptacle for the clippings that must be put out on the street every 6 months for collection and driven off to the toenail recycling centre, where they will be turned into pencils for the third world, who still only have enough electricity for one fridge because they are not allowed to use coal. ————–Scenario (2). You decide you need a couple of new plants for your front garden and jump in your car and head off 6 miles to the garden centre where you and your wife pick out a couple of Berberis, a Hydrangea, one medium size Black Lace, and some Begonia’s. They all fit nicely in the boot and 40 minutes after you left the house you are now placing the plants in various spots around your garden and 15 minutes later you are sitting in the sun eating an ice lolly. —-With the “not to have a car” policy you simply would not go to the garden centre at all. Your garden would be not very interesting and infact the garden centre would have closed sometime ago because hardly a soul was prepared to take 3 busses to get there, and then how would they get the plants home?.———Oh dear the unintended consequences of pretending to save the planet are so numerous that it would need books the size of the works of Shakespeare to list even 1% of them.
Can anyone seriously see our Muslim community giving up their cars. Now this I’ve got to see. Order the popcorn. Nobody takes a blind bit of notice of politicians
Gosh, those MPs on the Public Accounts Committee must all be related to Gypsy Rose Lee. A 75% reduction in private car ownership is precisely what the WEF has planned for us (with no consultation with the people whose cars it intends banning, or any kind of democratic mandate whatsoever).
https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_The_Urban_Mobility_Scorecard_Tool_2023.pdf
I guess those MPs must think they are among the Prize Pigs in the 25% who will be permitted to have a car ….. since it will be “essential” for them to carry out their oh so important tasks for Schwab and the rest of the Davos Deviants.
Lets start with politicians. Give them all free push-bikes and take away their cars and chauffeurs. This is just another attempt for crazed politicians to control us and take away our freedoms. The freedom to have a car generates enough tax and we pay heavily for that benefit. There are enough nutters in government and local government progressively making it as difficult as they can for people to drive their cars under the pretence of limiting CO2 while inadequately maintaining or providing the roads our taxes should be paying for. CO2 is not a pollutant or a significant factor for climate change and science has helped massively reduce the actual pollution from motor vehicles, although there needs to be more work on this, so we don’t need to be converted to electric cars which will cause at least as much pollution overall. Let’s group together to kick out at every electoral opportunity all these anti-freedom anti-car politicians, so we can continue the lives, mobility and pleasures the motor car has given us.