Posted on 06/20/2025 6:27:53 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Britain’s largest producer of fibre glass, a key component in wind turbines and electric cars, is reportedly set to shut down in part due to the high energy costs in the United Kingdom.
The Japanese-owned Electric Glass Fiber UK factory in Wigan, which employs around 250 people, is said to be set for closure after the left-wing Labour Party government failed to organise a buyout from Tokyo-based Nippon Electric Glass owners.
According to the BBC, the owners claimed that the factory operated at a £12 million loss last year due to increased competition from Chinese manufacturers, low sales, and the soaring cost of energy in Britain.
Britain currently has some of the most expensive energy prices in the world, in large part as a result of the very same green agenda which the Electric Glass Fiber UK factory assisted in through its production of the critical component to wind turbines and electric cars.
While defenders of ‘Net Zero’ in the UK, such as cabinet minister Ed Miliband, have attempted to cast blame for the sky high energy prices on the global price shocks following the coronavirus and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Westminster’s green agenda compounds many of these issues, with traditional forms of energy being taxed to subsidise so-called renewable forms of energy.
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“Britain’s largest producer of fibre glass, a key component in wind turbines and electric cars, is reportedly set to shut down in part due to the high energy costs in the United Kingdom.“
Equally ironic and hilarious.
My God, that is so hilarious and delicious. They can’t make fiberglass the UK to make more wind turbines because the power from existing wind turbines is too expensive!
The green economy at work.
You use solar and wind power to power the factories that make wind turbines and solar cells brought to you by the people who never took or understood thermodynamics
Stupid and funny yes, but it has been pointed out by some of the saner people that the further our societies head towards Net Zero, the LESS they’ll be able to do to accomplish that goal. And this is a perfect example...the UK can no longer make the wind turbines that they would need to power their country in their Net Zero hellscape.
Looks like they will be getting to net zero even faster now.
We give corporations billions of dollars in tax breaks, we wouldn’t be better off spending money on cheap plentiful electricity and energy and working that infrastructure growth and permanent dependability and permanent low cost into better structured incentive programs for corporations that also benefits the underlying security and well being of the American people?
The stupid thing is that we here in the USA think we need to follow the examples of European countries.
The problem Europe has is that other than Norway and the North Sea they do not have petroleum or natural gas.
They have to import it from other places in the world like Russia, the Stans, the Middle East, Australia or the Americas.
Even Europe’s coal is not nearly as good as the coal in other places in the world. Like the kind we have in plenty.
So, Europe is FORCED to look at various alternative non carbon energy producing forms. WE DO NOT.
We have plenty of coal, petroleum and natural gas.
We also have plenty of sun in some areas and wind in others.
What does not make sense is for us to give people a tax credit to install solar panels or wind mills.
If wind mills are profitable then let companies build them without a tax credit. If people want to put solar panels on their property, let them do it without a tax credit.
set for closure after the left-wing Labour Party government failed to organise a buyout from Tokyo-based Nippon Electric Glass owners
Why would the government be looking to a buyout to begin with? It’s stupid enough that they set the policies to run an “eco friendly” business into the ground. Then they were seriously considering bailing it out?
Must be nice spending other people’s money.
Reagan
US and especially Europe are loosing all “Green” production to China!
Reason - high energy cost!
Why?
Because China builds a coal plant every month.
We are shutting them up.
That’s Ok. When the Muzzies finally take complete control the dhimmi employees won’t be “employees”. They’ll be slaves serving their masters however the masters want.
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