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by youngtaff 7mo ago
There aren’t massive untapped offshore reserves… the North Sea is a mature basin The Tories granted a hundred plus drilling licenses and so far they’ve yielded a months worth of gas supply
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by youngtaff 7mo ago
If it’s all due to the reliance on wind and the floor price CfDs set why does the price spike when oil and gas prices rise?
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by youngtaff 7mo ago
> I do think that wind has a part to play in the UKs long term energy mix, but by this point I'm happy to call the current scale-up a complete false economy. Household and industrial electricity bills are double what they were in re
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by youngtaff 7mo ago
2025 data https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/electric-cars/choosing/electric-...
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by youngtaff 7mo ago
Here’s the RAC’s data from 2025 https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/electric-cars/choosing/electric-... SMMT publish monthly data too And which ever way we look at it electric cars are becoming more popular
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by youngtaff 7mo ago
Petrol has never been £1.90 a litre for any length of time https://www.racfoundation.org/data/uk-pump-prices-over-time
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by youngtaff 7mo ago
So do you have evidence that those North Sea licenses produced more oil and gas? The Guardian’s report is based on someone else’s research, they didn't just make up the story… they’re not the Daily Mail…
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by youngtaff 7mo ago
Or this https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/26/cornwall...
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by youngtaff 7mo ago
That’s because the price is set by the highest marginal producer Most of the UKs recent renewables are on a fixed price supply basis and when the market prices goes over this the excess is eventually fed back into reducing consumer bills
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by youngtaff 7mo ago
There’s very little oil and gas left in the UK part of the North Sea The Tories granted over a hundred licenses for exploration in the last ten years and so far it’s led to the supply of one months gas consumption https://www.the
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by youngtaff 7mo ago
Why should the EU drop sanctions on Russian gas and oil – that’s just appeasing an aggressor and abandoning Ukraine?
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by youngtaff 7mo ago
Why are the US and Israel hitting civilian targets including at least one desalination plant?
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by youngtaff 7mo ago
Broken on iOS Safari too
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by youngtaff 7mo ago
Isn't Qatar's main export gas?
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by youngtaff 7mo ago
In the British case… it’s being chipped and shipped from Canada and there’s doubts it’s waste wood It makes more sense to leave trees in the ground than burning them to generate energy
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by youngtaff 7mo ago
You’re quoting the figures for a one year
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by youngtaff 7mo ago
Yes, they're still burning coal and gas but China are making huge strides in non CO2 intensive electricity generation China are the reason solar has become so affordable for the rest of the world
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by youngtaff 7mo ago
US is the largest historical emitter… responsible for something like 25% of all man made CO2 emissions
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by youngtaff 8mo ago
IMV Servo is going to be the independent state of the art browser
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by youngtaff 8mo ago
Arrested for incitement not wrong think… if they had done the same thing in the street and there was evidence they would have been arrested too
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by youngtaff 8mo ago
> Larger bundle sizes are unfortunate, but they're not the main cause of performance issues. That'd be images and video sizes, especially if poorly optimized, which easily and immediately dwarf bundle downloads; and slow databa
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by youngtaff 8mo ago
It's kinda bizarre that we make people who want to become citizens swear allegiance to the Monarchy I’m British and have never sworn, or ever will swear allegiance to the Monarchy I believe the UK should be a republic in the Irish sens
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by youngtaff 8mo ago
And perhaps the US should start paying for it’s own debt instead of relying on the rest of the world to support it?
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by youngtaff 8mo ago
Down voting doesn't make that statement any less true…
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by youngtaff 8mo ago
> A farmer's field without planning consent is bought from the farmer priced as a worthless patch of mud, but taxed as though it already had a couple of dozen £500k rabbit hutch houses built on it. Farm land isn't taxed - it&#x
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by youngtaff 8mo ago
So they pollute the upper atmosphere instead!
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by youngtaff 8mo ago
Such a waste of resources
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by youngtaff 8mo ago
As someone who is in their 50s I'd disagree with you Very few people are losing their communities due to HS2
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by youngtaff 8mo ago
It’s not 24/7 — depending on the orbit they’ll spend significant time in the earth’s shadow
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by youngtaff 8mo ago
Do you know how Compulsory Purchase Orders work? Many people along the HS2 route have been paid double the market price of their house

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