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Could anyone explain why it is useful for UK PLC to have soaring energy prices (50% apparently) based on costly nuclear and “renewable” energy policy, such that imports from low cost carbon dependant fuel economies like China have an even greater competitive edge than they do already?

Is it not inevitable that in a credit crunch world our relative demand for low cost goods and their manufacture in these countries will increase? This will in turn mean that our demand for their products will produce the CO₂ where the goods are made regardless of UK energy policy and we all know that C0₂ does not need to show a passport at the border.

On a global scale isn’t this policy at best a carbon neutral act with deleterious implications for UK competitiveness on a global stage? View points are very welcome, because we are confused.

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Because there are Agents of influence within the Ministrys , deliberately coercing Politicians Ministers to implement energy policy that will have a negative impact, on UK PLC Businesses and Jobs. These Acts of Treason should be blocked by Mi6 and the perpertrators should be held to account.

his book is excellent by the way, worth buying.

I found this a few weeks ago and really think it clarifies a lot of the questions an effective energy policy has to answer. Which is good, because thats what it sets out to do. After writing it the author David MacKay was appointed to be Chief Scientific Advisor of the Department of Energy and Climate Change in September 2009, and I double checked wikipedia against decc.org.uk for that. It's a few years old now (2008), so apologies if it's not new to you. And it has it's detractors, but it seems sound to me and the detractors a bit nit-picking rather than challenging any true foundation.

www.withouthotair.com

The BBC new says bills will not go up too much with windmills and solar. But they must surely.

we still need to reduce green house gasses, so how!

Well at least the Chinese have decided to phase out the old filament bulbs. I would have thought fixed Chinese exchange and cheap labour rates are more important that cheaper energy, be interesting to quantify
Stan..

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