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Originally Posted by Chris
Gas is the easiest way to get coal permanently out of the energy mix. Using it results in a net reduction in CO2 emissions and a lot else besides. And shale gas represents an opportunity to improve domestic supply and therefore national energy security.
There is no way we can move exclusively to renewables at the pace favoured by the tofu-munching geography lecturers of Greenpeace. As I said above, pressure groups can blow as hard as they like, governments don’t have the luxury of enacting daydreams.
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It's Govts that will need to deal with the increasing Climate Change events in future. They need to think a bit more long term than the next election.
P..s I don't like tofu.