OK - one item caught my eye
I feel really sorry for England because Chris Huhne, their Energy Minister is a mouth-breathing, kool-aid drinking idiot.
First, a little bit on the Minister -- from the
London Daily Mail:
Has any minister in history seemed more hopelessly unfit to do his job?
The penny is fast dropping that by far the most disastrous appointment made by David Cameron to his Coalition Cabinet was that of the ultra-green, Lib Dem millionaire Chris Huhne as our Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.
Yesterday, after Mr Huhne issued his first annual statement on Britain's energy future, it was clear that we should all be very, very concerned about the future of Britain.
As was only too predictable, the overall theme of Mr Huhne's message was that 'climate change is the greatest global challenge we face'.
We must do everything we can and more to cut down very drastically on our 'carbon emissions', as we are now legally committed to do by the Climate Change Act - at a cost of £18 billion a year.
But in the real world, the £100 billion-plus energy question that confronts us all in Britain today is how we are going to fill that massive, fast-looming gap in our electricity supplies when the antiquated power stations which currently supply us with two-fifths of the power needed to keep our economy running are forced to close.
The headline answer given by Mr Huhne is that we must build thousands more giant wind turbines.
As a 24-carat green ideologue, he is viscerally opposed to replacing the ageing nuclear and coal-fired plants which currently provide us with more than half our electricity.
From
The Daily Bayonet:
Ta Ta, Tata
The UK may be waving goodbye to Tata Steel and some other large industrial concerns as the government piles on more green costs, making it almost impossible for global businesses based there to compete.Companies including Tata Steel Ltd. and GrowHow U.K. Ltd. may leave the U.K. as climate-protection policies boost electricity and natural-gas costs.
Factories will pay 18 percent to 141 percent more for gas, electricity and carbon-reduction programs by 2020, adding about 7 million pounds ($11 million) to the bill for a typical large energy consumer, the London-based Energy-Intensive Users Group and Britain’s Trades Union Congress said in a report on the impact of climate policy released today.
“The combined impact of the government’s climate change policies is imposing significant costs on the U.K.’s energy- intensive industries, and without urgent review could see some companies leaving the U.K. for good,” according to the report.
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It’s the second report this month suggesting potential job losses in Britain because of climate policy.
If there is a penalty placed on the cheap generation of electricity, heavy industries will move to places where there are no such penalties. The outcome will be as follows:
#1) - loss of jobs
#2) - loss of tax revenues
#3) - higher prices for products
#4) - overall higher global pollution as 3rd world nations are not concerned about environmental issues
#5) - overall higher global pollution as heavy materials are shipped across the globe to England.
Mr. Huhne -- what is the benefit of your ideological path.
What does England derive from your inane Marxist fever dreams.
Posted by DaveH at July 28, 2010 9:08 PM
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