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Originally Posted by Osem
Yes well at least we don't need to worry about having a population too big to sustain without vast imports of gas, oil, food....   |
Let's not forget, thanks to the eco-loons, we are about to switch off a load of our coal power stations and all we can quickly replace them with is gas, which we have to buy from Russia.
We can't pipe shale gas into them because the hippies have been inventing massive and surprisingly effective lies about the process (hands up who still thinks Americans really can set light to their tap water) - thus delaying exploitation of possibly huge reserves in NW England.
We can't switch on all those new nuclear power stations we've been talking about for the last 15 years because Tony Bliar and his cronies didn't have the spine to accept we would need them and simply sign off the process.
We can't rely on the only form of generation currently being built on any scale - wind - because the wind can't satisfy base load requirements, it costs so much the only people who are benefiting from it are rent-seeking landowners (at the expense of all of us taxpayers), and in any case we have long since passed the point where a few turbines on a distant hill added interest to the landscape. We're ruining the last of our wild places with the things.
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