Terminal Blighty? will bet zero ruin a once moghty econony?

[david44]

Built on Coal


Abundant in Hydro


Surrounded by wild seas for estuarial and tidal power


So much mulch hot air for Biomass


Gas both on and offshore with or without fracking


Pioneer in Nuclear power "too cheap to meter"


Increasing Solar Power


More wind than Trump after a spicy TACO


and yet the highest energy costs in the world.


A nuclear navy unable to stop illegal invaders in inflatables


90% literacy higher in Ireland Scotland and Wales with recipe books not banned Dire dinners


Home of Alvis Aston Martin Rolls Royce and can hardly make a decent motor.

[taxexile]

^

Morgan, Caterham, Ariel, Mclaren..... and most of the tech for F1.

[baldrick]

electricity may be cheap to make , but who has the monopoly on the poles and wires ?

[Salsa dancer]

That's why I am investing in copper mining companies

[Shutree]

'Net Zero' is not an economic ambition, it is entirely ideological.

It bears comparison with China's collectivisation of farms in the 1950s. At least in that case it started with a somewhat logical effort to improve farming yields so that the countryside could feed the growing numbers of urban workers. It was considered a success at first. Of course they piled ideology upon ideology and it spiralled into a nightmare with an estimated 30 million people starving to death.
Net zero has no beneficial economic outcomes. It is pure ideology and this is where it lines up with collectivisation. Who did well out of the chaos? The ruling elite. Those peasants who didn't die became evn more subservient to their communist masters, the Party were able to tighten control over the masses.
Don't imagine even for a moment that Milliband and the rest of them don't know the history of communism.