Ed's Clean Power Fantasy 2030 Is About To Turn Lethal

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Kathryn Porter has an article in The Telegraph on the news that Mad Ed may be about to offload some of the costs of ‘clean’ electricity onto gas, a disgraceful idea which was initially floated by Emma Pinchbeck, now in charge at the Climate Change Committee. Kathryn writes:

At the moment, most subsidy costs are loaded on to electricity. This is because they support renewable electricity generation. Subsidies for green gas are already added to gas bills, but they are much lower.

Supporters of the idea of shifting more levies on to gas claim it would push people to adopt greener technology, such as electrically powered heat pumps.

Yet the logic of this argument rests on a flawed ideology known as “polluter pays”. The idea is to make polluting – ie. using fossil fuels – so expensive that consumers would be forced to adopt other alternatives.

Except it doesn’t work that way in practice. Many consumers have little or no choice over the type of fuel they use. More likely, they will face the unpalatable choice between heating and eating.

Here’s Kathryn on Talk TV:

But Mad Ed’s not for turning. Like a mad man chasing butterflies through a dreamy meadow in the windmills of his deluded mind, this dangerous nutcase is utterly determined to pursue the insane dream of 95% ‘clean’ power by 2030, come hell or high water.

He WILL kill people. 78% of households heat their homes in winter using gas central heating. By taxing gas, he will be hitting the majority in order to fund the virtue signalling aspirations of a minority who buy into the insane notion that using an electric heat pump is somehow contributing to saving the planet from an imaginary ‘climate crisis’. Amongst that majority, there will be many who will struggle even more to keep their homes warm in winter and they will be forced to make the choice between heating or eating. There is a strong correlation between energy poverty, cold homes and excess winter deaths. There is also a strong correlation between excess winter deaths and the severity of winter. It’s true that winters have become milder in the UK, especially after the 1960s/70s, but it’s also the case that we can still experience a run of colder than average winters. The last time that happened was in 2008-13. In fact, in 2009/10, the mean minimum winter temperature dropped below -1.0C, which was the coldest winter since 1978/79. If that happens again, and Mad Ed does increase the cost of gas by 15%, as is being suggested, then many thousands will die as a direct result of insane Net Zero government policy.