The Energy Crisis Is Sending Shockwaves Through The UK Economy

Oil price ^ | Jan 08, 2022 | City A.M -

[unclebankster]

Good for “Limeyland.”

Climate change is a British creation and now “the chickens are coming home to roost.”

This organized stupidity didn’t come from Russia & China.

[JD_UTDallas]

It costs about $5 MMbtu to turn gas into a liquid and ship it via a tanker. So there is a minimum price that must be met to make the transport costs worth it. With gas available here at $3.75 MMbtu and the UK willing to pay upwards of $24 MMbtu every LNG train on the Gulf and East coast’s are running flat out to sell in that market. To do otherwise is a failure of due diligence for your stock holders.

[Jacquerie]

And the UK similarly sits on enormous coal deposits.

Oh, and what of nuke power?

Never mind.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Absolutely true. The UK could happily run on coal and/or nuclear forever. I bet anyone who thinks coal is dirty has not ever been anywhere near a modern coal plant. They are clean as a whistle. And you won't ever see or smell any coal smoke, maybe a little bit of fluffy cloud-like water vapor at most, pure H₂O.

[sergeantdave]

Thousands of people in the UK are dying from the cold, and fuel poverty is to blame

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/27/dying-cold-europe-fuel-poverty-energy-spending

[JD_UTDallas]

My lake house is down wind from a former modern coal plant. You cannot eat the fish from the lake due to Mercury from the smoke stacks and those stacks had scrubbers. Mercury is not abated by scrubbers in any significant quantity you must use very expensive dedicated catalytic flyers units and even those added on only grab 90% the other 10% still ends up in the local community and comes raining back down in the watersheds. Coal is best left in the dust bin of history. The only technology that can burn coal at anywhere near the cleanliness of natural gas is integrated gasification plant those are no where near economically competitive with natural gas turbines.

One of dozens of emissions studies from real state of the art plants. Not even in the same league as clean burning natural gas. Society correctly decided coal is finished the sooner the better for our air and waters.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16289297/

[Entrepreneur]

lol good article- i see that a commenter climate change worrier posted a response- saying “We need solutions” ... Answer- No, no we don’t need solutions- man’s co2 makes up just 0.00136% of the earth’s atmosphere- our CO2 is not even remotely close to being enough to blanket the earth in a thick enough blanket to trap heat in large enough quantity to cause global climate change-

I had pretty much the same thought, but generally do not respond to comments to my columns. Few people are willing to put it on the line. More agree with me than disagree.

[SunkenCiv]

While households are bracing for higher tax bills and are already being stung by food prices leaping, it is swelling energy costs that will hit hardest in 2022.

Boris the Foot-shooter to the rescue!

[wgmalabama]

Just lock more people out of the economy. Problem solved. Blame it all on some dirty Jew or um unvaxed. See it’s simple to solve um blame.

[Entrepreneur]

lol good article- i see that a commenter climate change worrier posted a response- saying “We need solutions” ... Answer- No, no we don’t need solutions- man’s co2 makes up just 0.00136% of the earth’s atmosphere- our CO2 is not even remotely close to being enough to blanket the earth in a thick enough blanket to trap heat in large enough quantity to cause global climate change-

I get more comments whenever I take on environmental subjects than anything else. Almost always, it's from someone who gets part of his or her income from a "green" source. I don't even try to counter them anymore. Most contradict themselves and destroy their own credibility.

[Bob434]

Yeahni used to,run a blog where I tried to get the word out about the truth of climate change. The greenies became obnoxious and nasty about the posts, and it became clear that tye lie of ‘man-caused’ climage change was not going to be stopped because the left had succesfully gaslighted the world into,thinking that man is responsible for what is a natural cyclical process. So I dropped the blog.