New place for Old King Coal as energy crisis wrecks people's lives?.

 

The Resolution Foundation think tank is forecasting an 8.3% rise in the cost of living by next month, April 2022 with the worst squeeze on family incomes since the 1930's and the Government's energy-gate myopia is to blame.

The massive rise in inflation is not simply caused by war in Europe or through the national attempts by Government to go for business growth as we crawl out of the pandemic, the root cause is the Conservative led decade of austerity in order that 'friends' of the Government could pile away £millions or even billions from the British economy and be given passports and peerages for returning a minute amount back in either tax from the cash they missed from their offshore activities or donations to the Conservative party.

Having said that, the Government this week will be unveiling a new energy policy that does not include the anti-tree huggers shale gas extraction. An energy policy that has been ten years in the making yet it will be rushed through as a non answer to the problems ordinary people face each and every day, tge high cost of everything. 

This Government's wish to centralise all of the UK's energy use on electricity will see a growth in atomic power stations which take decades to bring online and the extraction of the last gas from the North Sea. 

Its not expected that the speeding up of the promised offshore wind will be sponsored by Government and they will not be including one easy fix and one research and development opportunity, that of research into the hydrogen cell,  to power transport and heat homes in future but the quick fix of taking the opportunity to extract petroleum from both coal and sugar beet both of which took place during the second world war is to be missed out in the race to make even more mates richer through the complete reliance on an unbelievably creaky, now less than national grid, to run everything.

Mismanagement, reliance on commercial market forces and short term greed has got the UK into the position it is in, an offshore poor relation to the world's largest marketplace. Take this opportunity to ensure we are self-reliant on energy in the future and then instead of importing what we need
we can be major exporters of what everyone wants, energy on tap, carbon derived or not.