News Round-Up
8 May 2024
The Government could slash energy bills by £800 and more if only it stopped sending loads of our electricity to Europe and made us an island grid. This would allow us to properly address energy shortages and prices.
According to projections of the rising cost of electricity, journeys by electric car are set to cost more than diesel from January, calling into question the basis on which many EV's were purchased.
Together is celebrating its first anniversary this Thursday, Sept 1st at an event in central London. The theme is how we can work together to address the massive challenges caused by the disastrous Covid lockdowns.
The Wall St Journal has written a pithy editorial in which it argues that the underlying causes of Britain’s energy misery is our fixation with achieving Net Zero emissions by 2050.
According to a draft document seen by Reuters, the EU plans to urge world’s biggest economies to redouble their efforts to reduce carbon emissions at COP27, seemingly blind to the energy crisis engulfing the continent.
The historian Steve Davies is pessimistic about Western living standards over the next two decades. He warns that, due to the reduction in Russian gas supplies, "It's going to be very very hard this winter".
Nuclear power can't save Europe. It takes at least five years to build a nuclear plant. What's more, France gets 70% of its electricity from nuclear, but this hasn't stopped prices there from skyrocketing.
Thomas Fazi has written a pessimistic essay for UnHerd in which he predicts widespread civil unrest in the UK this winter, thanks to spiralling household energy bills and other self-imposed political disasters.
Contraction of the net energy supply has been driving inflation for years. Printing trillions to pay people to sit at home is throwing fuel on the fire. 'Net Zero' axing of high density hydrocarbons is adding gunpowder.
According to GB News, wind farms have been gaming the system, taking advantage of 'green' subsidies to earn hundreds of millions from the energy crisis.
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