If you don't think that the removal of your car is high up on the political agenda, you have not been listening to them.
Today's generation of MPs don't understand why you can't just walk or cycle.
They have no idea what you use the car for or why you unimportant little people would need or want one.
You having a car is a problem they want to solve.
So walk.
"Reducing the cost [of public transport] relative [to private transport]" means taxing people out of their cars.
No political party currently sitting in Westminster has any intention of asking questions about that massive change to our ways of life.
It will therefore happen.
It's easy to get misled into believing that the climate change debate is about whether climate change is happening or is not happening.
Whether climate change is happening or not, it has become the basis of politics without regard for the degree to which it is happening.
This tells us that there is an *ideology* of climate change, distinct from the scientific facts of climate change.
"Decarbonisation" is more about transforming society than it is about transforming the ways we use energy.
In this transformation, governments and politicians believe it is their place to decide how you should live.
This is a radical departure from the principles of democratic governance.
Whether or not climate change is real, it is a ruse.
That is not a conspiracy theory. The dynamic is not one of a conspiracy, but of a degenerate political class & wider political establishment that has lost any meaningful connection with the public.
In a democracy, the principles of the political parties' green agendas would be tested.
The most basic question that would be asked is: "is green policy worse than climate change".
Despite alarmist claims, it might be better to suffer the climate change than try to prevent it.
The scale of green ambitions is no smaller than the scale of twentieth century ideologues' ambitions.
And all of the parties being committed to the same radical, political agenda means we are effectively living under a one-party state.
They dismiss all criticism as 'climate change denial'.
They admit no criticism to their discussions.
They are not interested. It would deprive them of their places, and their reasons for being there.
Banning cars is an extremely political act, dressed up as science.
A news report that features no criticism of MPs, no intellectual curiosity about the ideology, no journalistic scepticism about the legitimacy of the agenda.
So what's the difference between @SkyNews and Chinese state media?
@UKmacD@SkyNews That's not hyperbole. It's a serious question.
If broadcast media and political parties are not able or willing to deviate from alignment with the government, what is the difference between a one-party state and state-controlled media, and our 'liberal democracy'?
People have absolutely no idea how much green energy is in the pipeline. They will all be getting subsidies -- fixed prices.
SMRs aren't going to make a blind bit of difference.
Yes -- that says 600 GW of capacity by 2040.
Yes, that is how mad the government is.
And much of that was in the pipeline before the election. The Tories are only recent acquaintances of sanity -- it's not clear that they're friends yet.
Green blob-funded lobbying organisation, Ember has produced a widely circulated report. It says that thanks to wind and solar, Britain saved around £7 million per day through March because we didn't need to burn gas.
This is a thread about why that claim is totally false.
Ember's misinformation starts as very good quality information. Ember reports gas market price data, and how this turns into a higher price for electricity from gas. It also correctly shows the effect of the Carbon Price - a policy cost, effectively tax - applied to the price.
But then it starts to get fuzzy. The report shows how rapidly green energy has been deployed over the last decade and a half.
I'm still waiting for an explanation of the Tories' part in all of this. I'm still waiting for the whip to be removed from those who were central to it.
It's no use saying "oh, we made a mistake, here are the right policies". There is nothing said in this piece that was not said 25 years ago. And it was as obvious then as it is now.
How and why was the party captured by green ideology? What agreements were made with whom? Why did the party agree to a consensus with the opposition parties? Why did the party decided to put the agenda before the public and country's needs? Why didn't it challenge a manifestly crazy ideological movement, and instead open all of its doors to it?
If you randomly threw a tennis ball in in SW1A between 2000 and 2023, the chances are it would have hit someone who would meet Claire Coutinho's description of a "dangerous fantasist". Ed Miliband is just continuity Boris Johnson.
So we need a deeper analysis.
Not so long ago... Milibandism was still the party's core offering in 2022.
"40% lower than new gas" is the new "wind power is nine times cheaper than gas".
It's DESNEZ's "on display at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet...".
It is government policy that makes "new gas" expensive.
Currently, gas is trading for 2.5p/kWh.
This new wind is 9.1p/kWh.
And that doesn't count the system costs of adding unreliables to the grid: the new wires to remote locations, the constraint payments, and the backup -- yep, gas.
These people are pathological liars and ideologues.
Gas-fired generators are extremely efficient and cheap.
The government makes them expensive by adding carbon tax to the gas, and then making the grid prefer power produced from wind than generated from gas.
The government is now leaning on green blob lobbying outfits fibs to do its dirty work.
Here's the source of one of DESNZ's dodgy claims -- that "renewables can drive down electricity prices, already having reduced wholesale electricity prices by up to a quarter".
Here is Chair of the Climate Change Committee @theCCCuk, Emma Pinchbeck, lying about why bills have gone up.
The CCC is supposed to inform Parliament. But it's literally a committee of liars.
Here's the price of gas over the last ten years. There was a spike after lockdowns, often falsely attributed to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. There is no way that gas prices can account for energy bills going up as much as they have.
Here is the House of Commons Library's analysis of energy prices, and again from DESNZ.
You can see that the prices of electricity and gas diverge.
This is really quite something. The BBC basically chose a Dutch millennial Monbiot, who has all the derangement syndromes -- especially Trump -- to give its annual Reith Lecture series. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…