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Net Stupid: UK’s Largest Glass Fibre Factory to Reportedly Shut Down over Energy Costs
Breitbart ^ | 06/20/2025 | Kurt Zindulka

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; costs; down; energy; factory; glass; largest; net; netzero; reportedly; shut; stupid; uks
Frigging morons
1 posted on 06/20/2025 6:27:53 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: 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.“

Equally ironic and hilarious.


2 posted on 06/20/2025 6:29:31 AM PDT by iamgalt ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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!


3 posted on 06/20/2025 6:34:44 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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To: iamgalt

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


4 posted on 06/20/2025 6:36:29 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (TV )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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.


5 posted on 06/20/2025 6:37:29 AM PDT by BobL
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Looks like they will be getting to net zero even faster now.


6 posted on 06/20/2025 6:37:38 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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?


7 posted on 06/20/2025 6:40:44 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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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.


8 posted on 06/20/2025 7:07:56 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: ChicagoConservative27
The irony here is hilarious but my attention was also drawn to this sentence …

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.

9 posted on 06/20/2025 7:14:10 AM PDT by johniegrad
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"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."

Reagan

10 posted on 06/20/2025 7:27:19 AM PDT by tlozo
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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.


11 posted on 06/20/2025 7:31:16 AM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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Translation: Without U.S. taxpayers forced to pay subsidies for windmill blades, some fiberglass companies are forced to close their doors.




12 posted on 06/20/2025 7:35:03 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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.


13 posted on 06/20/2025 7:54:06 AM PDT by Gritty (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution. - Saul Alinsky)
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