Energy

A large part of human civilisation involves the harnessing energy to produce useful work.

Far from being expensive, diesel fuel is unconscionably cheap. At £2.00 per litre, diesel is cheaper than a bottle Pepsi. And because the price trivialises it we underestimate the risk from shortages.

Local power outages in the UK have been known to last days and – in heavy snow – even weeks. But few households maintain more than a few days’ food.

We are currently living through what looks a lot like the calm before a very big series of storms

In the real world, any recovery of new oil and gas is a decades-long, multi-billion-pound endeavour

The only viable responses are rationing and conservation. And this has to be done before fuel shortages begin… i.e., sometime last month

The Trump administration is clueless when it comes to calculating the energy cost of energy

There was always hubris in the European technocracy’s experiment with eschewing fossil fuels (and in Germany’s case, nuclear too).

Only access to some new source of cheap energy can save the western states.

The current UK policy fails to meet all three key energy priorities.