The current UK policy fails to meet all three key energy priorities.
Read More »Peak oil returns
While “oil” production has bounced back from the lockdown slump, diesel production is still lagging below the 2018 peak
Read More »The problem squared
Given the extent to which we have electrified our way of life, this should terrify everyone...
Read More »The two horsemen of the net zero apocalypse
The reason UK industrial electricity prices are the highest in the world is a simple combination of physics and neoliberal policy.
Read More »Can we live like Windy Miller?
Without major changes to our way of life, net zero electricity rationing is inevitable.
Read More »In the absence of capital
After decades of de-industrialisation, Britain no longer has the capacity to build new energy infrastructure
Read More »Playing seesaw
Without oil the western economies couldn’t have condensed 150 years of economic growth into just two decades. Indeed, without the exponential growth in oil production such spectacular growth could never occur again.
Read More »A balancing act of sorts
Sunak embracing gas is evidence of a political class waking up to the impossibility of balancing energy cost, security, and environment.
Read More »Or, to put it another way
“Tamping down on demand” is an interesting way of describing what amounts to the irreversible deindustrialisation of the continent...
Read More »Let’s join the dots for them
Let us not forget that beyond hard-pressed bill-payers are thousands more who can no longer afford electricity at all
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