Iran crisis / What will Ed Miliband do when the lights go out? |
How many times has Ed Miliband told us that his renewable energy policies were helping to free us from ‘fossil fuel dictators’? Wind and solar energy, he assures us, are saving us money and making us more energy-secure. Then we wake up to find that actually, Britain has only two days’ worth of gas left in storage.
If the people who run our gas network were to go on all-out strike we wouldn’t last five minutes
If the people who run our gas network were to go on all-out strike we wouldn’t last five minutes
It has been clear for a long time that Miliband’s claims are somewhat contrary to reality. If Britain’s net zero policies are really helping to bring down prices, then how come UK households – even before the current crisis – were paying twice as much for their gas and two and half times as much for their electricity as US consumers? And no, the Energy Secretary can’t blame global gas prices for setting our high electricity costs: actually, the US generates a higher proportion of its electricity from gas than does the UK.
But the war has exposed........