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This Is Why Electricity Costs Twice As Much In Britain As In The US
Daily Sceptic ^ | 07/20/2024 | Dr. John Fernley

Posted on 07/20/2024 5:12:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: Brian Griffin

You can get fine work done on your teeth there going to a private dentist.


21 posted on 07/20/2024 6:07:30 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I don’t really care what it costs elsewhere, I care about what it costs in the US. Thanks to the green scam.


22 posted on 07/20/2024 6:12:45 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Trump / Vance 2024 - Make America Great Again)
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To: SeekAndFind

Net Zero=No Electricity.......


23 posted on 07/20/2024 6:21:35 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: BenLurkin

So Cleveland is where the sun don’t shine?........


24 posted on 07/20/2024 6:23:34 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Because solar farms produce almost no electricity in the winter”

Pretty much true in the entire West, but putting solar panels in the UK is even WORSE, considering the latitude and the weather. Might as well put them in their basements, as they’ll generate only slightly less power there, and they will last much longer and be easier to maintain.


25 posted on 07/20/2024 6:27:22 PM PDT by BobL
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s not entirely all because of Net Zero stupidity, not nearly. It’s also because everything is more expensive on an island because smaller land mass = fewer natural resources. Electricity in Hawaii (varies by island and city but) averages about 50¢/kWh , which is higher than everybody on this list.


26 posted on 07/20/2024 6:31:10 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Paal Gulli

“It’s not entirely all because of Net Zero stupidity, not nearly. It’s also because everything is more expensive on an island because smaller land mass = fewer natural resources. Electricity in Hawaii (varies by island and city but) averages about 50¢/kWh , which is higher than everybody on this list.”

Incredible. Anyway, the Texas grid is also an “Island”, with barely any ties to the rest of the country, and we have less than HALF of the population of the UK...and our electricity is LESS THAN HALF of the price of the UK, and slightly lower than the average US price. Texas does that because we used GAS and COAL for power, and still mostly do, mostly.

The UK chose differently, and I suspect that Hawaii uses Diesel quite a bit, like many smaller islands.

It’s POLITICAL DECISIONS made by leaders that put the UK in this horrific mess, where not only is electricity more than than double the US price, they are being FORCED to use it for heating and cooking, and with all that, their incomes are FAR LESS than the US.

They’re screwed because they listened to Greta - it was THEIR DECISIONS, not the fact that they are an ‘island’.


27 posted on 07/20/2024 6:44:38 PM PDT by BobL
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To: SeekAndFind

California would be at the top of that chart if they had included it.


28 posted on 07/20/2024 6:47:10 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Jeff Chandler

Well you silly pratt the shame of all this is I CAN do a British accent quite well.


29 posted on 07/20/2024 6:57:49 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: Brian Griffin
Had a friend who worked for a major American corporation in their London office.

The company paid for all its employees to be flown home to the U.S. for any dental work!

30 posted on 07/20/2024 7:18:36 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: Red Badger

It is a city of light and magic.


31 posted on 07/20/2024 7:24:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Indy Pendance

Where I live, we get tornadoes & hail. They rebuilt the last array after hail took it out. You never seem to hear anything about how much that cost or how it was paid.


32 posted on 07/20/2024 7:29:39 PM PDT by oldtech
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To: SeekAndFind

“”these [hydrocarbon-fueled] power stations are both cheap and reliable, they work every hour of every day summer and winter.””

Once again, inexpensive, abundant energy equals more FREEDOM, who is anathema to the Left.

“”The U.S. is the second-largest carbon dioxide emitter, contributing about 13.5% of the global total. China is number one: 29.18%””

So, the United States & China are the real promoters of a Green Earth. The more C02, the more plant life.


33 posted on 07/20/2024 7:48:30 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: jonrick46

Because we have been de-industrialized and given to China.


34 posted on 07/20/2024 7:51:41 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.")
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To: jmacusa

You gotta hand it to them: Merlin engines on P51s, 17 pounders on Shermans, radar, sonar, decoding Enigma . . . They can be quite brilliant when they’re fighting for their lives.


35 posted on 07/20/2024 9:42:25 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Jeff Chandler
Yes. And desperate to get us into a war we wanted NO part of. Chamberlin and his “Peace in our time’’ bs. He got totally trolled by Hitler. A man he publicly praised and in private referred to as "The most common little swine I've ever encountered''. And when we did have to enter the war we were treated as the hired help and all made worse by that INSUFFERABLE git Montgomery.
36 posted on 07/20/2024 11:23:40 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: jmacusa; Jeff Chandler

Now now, be nice to each other.

PS What’s an RP accent?


37 posted on 07/21/2024 12:44:32 AM PDT by Mr Radical (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
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To: SeekAndFind

if we achieved Net Zero tomorrow it would have no measurable impact on global temperatures.

Neither would anyone else. If everyone made “net zero” there would be no to negligible result.

Because people do not cause climate changes.


38 posted on 07/21/2024 3:49:06 AM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: BenLurkin
Solar for the grid is a bad idea even here in Alabama. The grid should never rely on intermittent sources.

And I’m not anti-solar. I have 20kW of it for my home. I’m just saying that if they use things like solar to satisfy feel-good desires of membership in their warmageddon cult, they wind up forcing solar into situations that are impractical for solar.

39 posted on 07/21/2024 4:48:27 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Mr Radical
I am being nice. This character however is coming across as some snotty git( British slang for an annoying person). I've stated before I'm neither a strict Anglophobe nor an Anglophile. But truthfully I'm not really fond of the Brits. Bless your heart though for being nice.
40 posted on 07/21/2024 7:55:47 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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