The government need to drop net zero for the now and get to grips with reducing the cost of energy.
12% of our energy bills go toward funding green incentives.
People are going to die in great numbers this winter because of unaffordable energy costs, and the extra strain on capacity will just about kill off the NHS.
Net Zero is such a fever dream, we don’t have the means to achieve it within the next decade or two. Pure buzzword.
*Tory policy bankrupts Britain
Fixed that for you
Despite the fact that the group involved in actually planning the policy for this calculated meeting net zero would save 0.5% of GDP? I.e. not actually cost more?
>The underlying cause of Britain’s energy misery is its fixation with climate goals, especially the ambition to achieve net-zero CO2 emissions by 2050. To meet that goal Britain has grown hostile to domestic energy exploration, banning shale-gas fracking and slapping windfall-profits taxes on North Sea oil and gas producers that will deter investment. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has hurt, but the U.K.’s policies made its citizens vulnerable to such a global shock.
So, Britain’s fixation of reducing reliance on Gas and Oil and increasing domestic energy security through renewables is what caused it to….be exposed to gas prices going through the roof?
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Net-zero policy somehow did not bankrupt France, Germany, Spain and other countries. [MIRACLE!](https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/07/the-growing-list-of-countries-committing-to-a-net-zero-carbon-emissions) Maybe – just maybe it was something else?
The government need to drop net zero for the now and get to grips with reducing the cost of energy.
12% of our energy bills go toward funding green incentives.
People are going to die in great numbers this winter because of unaffordable energy costs, and the extra strain on capacity will just about kill off the NHS.
Net Zero is such a fever dream, we don’t have the means to achieve it within the next decade or two. Pure buzzword.
*Tory policy bankrupts Britain
Fixed that for you
Despite the fact that the group involved in actually planning the policy for this calculated meeting net zero would save 0.5% of GDP? I.e. not actually cost more?
[https://www.carbonbrief.org/ccc-costly-gas-means-reaching-climate-goals-could-save-uk-0-5-of-gdp](https://www.carbonbrief.org/ccc-costly-gas-means-reaching-climate-goals-could-save-uk-0-5-of-gdp)
>The underlying cause of Britain’s energy misery is its fixation with climate goals, especially the ambition to achieve net-zero CO2 emissions by 2050. To meet that goal Britain has grown hostile to domestic energy exploration, banning shale-gas fracking and slapping windfall-profits taxes on North Sea oil and gas producers that will deter investment. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has hurt, but the U.K.’s policies made its citizens vulnerable to such a global shock.
So, Britain’s fixation of reducing reliance on Gas and Oil and increasing domestic energy security through renewables is what caused it to….be exposed to gas prices going through the roof?