The following featured article from 3oth March is as relevant two months on as it was when first published.

It provides a good understanding of the follies of a dimwit government enslaved to the destructive “green” hysteria.

By all means undertake sound husbandry of our planet and take good care of it. Unfortunately, the current bogus green hysteria, bereft as it is of either common sense or the ability to observe the planet we are actually living in, does neither. But it sure does siphon off the nation’s wealth so as to further line the pockets of the filthy rich

UK Govt’s green subsidy ‘reform’ punishes the poor and benefits the rich

Thursday 30th March 2023

Commenting on today’s package of energy policies released by the UK government, Net Zero Watch warned that Rishi Sunak and his colleagues appear to have learned nothing from the bitter experiences of the energy cost crisis and are ignoring the growing burden of renewable energy.

In spite of unassailable evidence that renewables costs have not fallen, the Government not only intends to continue providing billions of pounds of subsidies, but also proposes to implement Boris Johnson’s original plan to shift the green burden onto gas bills. As a result, heating will become even less affordable for millions of poor households.The government evasively refers to this plan as “rebalancing” (Powering Up Britain, p. 63) gas and electricity bills, but Net Zero Watch observes that the effect is not cost-neutral for most natural gas consumers in middle- and lower-income households, for the following reasons:1. The new tax will increase total household energy bills for those currently using gas. A substantial minority of households do not use gas at all, and will not pay the new gas tax, so their current share of the electricity subsidies will be transferred to those households using gas.2. Better off households will be able to avoid the new gas tax by switching to electric-powered heat pumps. Their share of the gas tax will then be transferred to the remaining gas consumers, who will tend to be in lower income brackets, and who therefore cannot afford heat pumps.

In effect, Mr Sunak’s new green subsidy reforms means that poor households will be forced to subsidise rich ones. This is both immoral and politically inept.

Dr John Constable, Net Zero Watch’s energy director, said:

Subsidies to physically inferior renewables have, unsurprisingly, failed to bring down the cost of wind and solar energy by any significant margin. Rather than unfairly dumping the green subsidies on to poorer households, Mr Sunak should have cancelled these failing policies completely.”

Dr Benny Peiser, Net Zero Watch’s director said:

While energy analysts are warning of a renewed energy cost crisis later this year, the government seems oblivious of the growing economic pain to households and businesses. Mr Sunak and his ministers won’t be able to blame the next energy crisis on Russia; instead, the government will rightly be held responsible for its total failure to reduce the rising cost of green levies.”

Additional information

Green taxes on home heating could cause a public health crisis and trigger social disaster, Boris Johnson is warned

Proposed heating tax to fund Net Zero is a social and political disaster in the making

Heat pump grants for the rich and gas taxes for the rest could bring down Boris Johnson

Please visit Net Zero Watch for many for fascinating articles

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