The truth is out, writes Matt Ridley. An official report has admitted for the first time the scale of the cost of reaching Net Zero by 2050 – the same as spending £1 a second for the next 31,000 years.
Shut down Britain's gas network, roll out heat pumps and ban all private vehicles from cities, the Government has been told by its National Infrastructure Commission.
Was anyone tempted by Sunak's raised offer of £7,500 for switching to a heat pump, asks Ysenda Maxtone Graham. "I don't think so" – because they're noisy, pricey and never get warm enough.
If electric cars and heat pumps were improvements on current technology there'd be no need for coercion. It's time for the Government to admit they are simply not up to the job, says Guy de la Bédoyère.
In the Government's increasingly farcical heat pump strategy, from next year manufacturers will be fined up to £5,000 for every heat pump they fail to sell below their quota.
A heating engineer has told the Daily Sceptic that with the approaching ban on gas and oil boilers, he can easily foresee the day when customers will be left without heating entirely because they can't afford a heat pump.
Forced installation of heat pumps and 'smart meters' that allow external control of energy, forced entry into homes for energy assessments – the Energy Bill takes the creeping eco-totalitarianism to the next level.
Richard Littlejohn has written about the appalling new Energy Bill currently being rushed through Parliament, pointing out that, among other horrors, homeowners will be liable for jail for failing to install a heat pump.
The electric car debacle shows the top-down economics of Net Zero don’t add up as the fundamentals of supply and demand are ignored by the ‘cart before the horse’ approach, says Ben Marlow.
A Government plan to relax rules to allow heat pumps to be installed in uninsulated homes they will fail to heat properly has been branded "desperate" and "unethical".
