Fossil fuels are the new dodgy dossier: Tony Blair’s call to slow green energy is perfectly wrong, writes Dale Vince |
By Dale Vince
Tony Blair’s new report contains - nothing new.
And calling for a slowdown in green energy to keep energy bills down is perfectly wrongheaded. Our bills are high not because of green energy but because of fossil fuels.
More precisely because we let the global price of gas dictate what we pay for our own wind and sun. Absurd, but true.
Tony Blair is giving support to the very recent right-wing narrative that we can’t afford the green energy transition and need to slow down.
It’s entirely false and that’s not to be........