Thread by @clim8resistance

Dale Vince is such a shameless liar.

He's made a fortune out of the excessive prices inflicted on the consumer by government policy.

The price cap was created because the government lost control of the energy market to its ideological ambitions...

The price cap was necessary because the EMR bill failed to address the problems created by the climate change act.

Policy let any fly-by-night spiv set himself up as a boutique energy retailer. All you needed was an iPad and a shed. See also cold-calling and doorstep-selling.

Vince rails against nuclear at the end, claiming that it's more expensive than the market cost.

Well, that's because it was overseen by a Minister who was ideologically preoccupied by wind, like his predecessors and his party.

The preoccupation with wind allowed regulators to increase the regulatory burden & liability on nuclear operators.

Then when a capacity crunch was obvious and the direction of prices was secured, investors demanded a return established by the preference for renewables.

Nuclear energy could have been made cheaper by revising the regulatory burden and liability to reflect more recent reactor designs.

But the green blob has stood against nuclear R&D for decades, because there is nothing greens hate more than solutions to climate change.

A solution to climate change would have meant that Dale Vince did not become a multimillionaire.