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As Brits Struggle With Net Zero Costs, Labour Plans To Accelerate Unpopular Green Schemes

by Fraser Myers
July 03, 2024, 2:07 PM
in Electric Vehicles (EVs), Energy, News and Opinion
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Politicians seeking election don’t usually tell us how they plan to make our lives worse. Yet the Labour Party, on course to win a huge landslide victory in tomorrow’s UK General Election, is proposing to hike the cost of living, limit economic development, and curb our personal freedoms. [emphasis, links added]

It doesn’t say so explicitly, of course. But these are the clear and undeniable implications of its plan to accelerate Net Zero.

As if the UK’s current plans for reaching Net Zero carbon emissions were not punishing enough, Labour leader Keir Starmer and his shadow energy secretary, Ed Miliband, have vowed to bring a number of decarbonization targets forward.

All electricity, they claim, will be generated by ‘clean’ sources by 2030 – five years ahead of the Tories’ target.

Sales of petrol and diesel cars will also be banned by 2030 – five years ahead of the EU’s target. And while the Labour manifesto promises that ‘nobody will be forced to rip out their boiler’, Miliband has vowed to implement a ‘boiler tax’ as soon as next year.

New licenses for oil and gas exploration in the North Sea will be banned as soon as Labour takes power, too.

Labour has tried to justify all this by pointing to the so-called climate emergency. It has also claimed that rapid decarbonization will lower our energy bills, guarantee the security of our energy supply, promote economic growth, and allow Britain to lead on the world stage.

These delusions are about to have a very painful collision with reality.

The fallacy that ‘clean’ energy reduces bills is at the heart of Starmer’s plan for Great British Energy, a proposed state-owned energy company, which will invest in renewable energy projects.

What Labour ignores is that wind and solar power have an insurmountable problem. They are intermittent sources of energy – that is, they only produce electricity when the wind is blowing or the Sun is shining.

Voters in a developed country like Britain, quite reasonably, expect to be able to access electricity at any time of day or night, and at a moment’s notice. Battery storage is too expensive and impractical to keep the grid functioning for long.

Back-up sources like coal and gas are relatively cheap when used constantly, but firing up and winding down these power plants, just to cover the gaps when it’s dark and windless, adds exorbitant costs.

This is why wherever renewables have been rolled out most extensively the cost of electricity only goes up and energy supplies become less secure, increasing the risk of blackouts and price spikes.

The rising cost of energy doesn’t just cause pain and hardship for households and families. It can also be fatal for industry – especially when combined with other burdensome green regulations.

For instance, not only do British steelmakers already pay higher prices for energy than our European neighbors, but the Port Talbot steelworks in Wales has also been coaxed into adopting greener manufacturing processes, shedding thousands of well-paying jobs in the process.

Labour may point the finger at the Tories for failing to bail out struggling British manufacturing firms, but it is even more fiercely committed to the green policies that are contributing to their downfall.

Labour is promising to be the party of deindustrialization.

Many of Labour’s green policies will have been left unstated ahead of the election. Indeed, for all Miliband’s excitable chatter about Great British Energy and his Green Prosperity Plan, these policies would not come close to reaching Labour’s decarbonization goals.

The Climate Change Committee, which advises the UK government on delivering Net Zero, says that an astonishing 62 percent of CO2 emissions reductions will have to come not from new carbon-free energy infrastructure, electric vehicles, or insulated homes, but from ‘behavior change and individual choices’.

If you think this ‘behavior change’ is going to be achieved without coercion, then I have a floating offshore wind farm to sell you.

Nudges, taxes, and bans will undoubtedly be deployed to cajole us into using less electricity, heating our homes sparingly, taking fewer trips by plane and car, and eating less meat and dairy.

In other words, we will be forced to give up what’s convenient and comfortable and to accept a lower quality of life.

Incredibly, Starmer and Miliband have deluded themselves into thinking that their program of eco-austerity is going to be a hit with the public.

In a new interview with the Guardian, Miliband makes clear that he sees his climate agenda as a means of beating back the tide of populism that is sweeping over the West.

‘The world is off track’ on meeting its climate targets, he complains, and there is a global ‘vacuum of leadership’ on green issues that he thinks a Labour-led UK could fill.

Of course, the real reason the world is ‘off track’ and lacking in climate ‘leadership’ is because Net Zero is really starting to bite. Europeans, in particular, are revolting against these punitive green policies.

Farmers are furious with EU demands to cut their use of fertilizers, to set aside land for non-farming use, and to restrict the production of meat and dairy – all to meet stringent climate targets.

Households are enraged at plans to take away their gas boilers and force them to foot the bill for expensive heat pumps and insulation.

Factory workers see how exorbitant energy costs and Net Zero quotas threaten to strangle the industries that provide them with their livelihoods.

Indeed, these are key reasons why there is a shift toward the populists across the West, as these are the only parties willing to challenge the elite’s green consensus.

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Comments 6

  1. David Lewis says:
    10 months ago

    “The Climate Change Committee, … says that an astonishing 62 percent of CO2 emissions reductions will have to come … from ‘behavior change and individual choice.”

    This has also been proposed for other jurisdictions but the radical agenda of the Labour Party my be the first implementation. There will certainly no “choice” for individuals but it will be all coercion. Proposals that have been made in the past and are likely to be implement is a drastic reduction in meat and diary consumption and perhaps a ban on meat. For many car ownership would be a thing of the past. All new housing would be tiny apartments. Only one new clothing outfit would be permitted a year. Many other consumer items would be rationed. Airline travel would be restricted to one trip every two years and travel by train limited.

  2. David Lewis says:
    10 months ago

    In the United States we have refugees from California. I went to high school there and everyone I’m still in contact with has fled the state. With the extreme polices of the Labour Party and no opportunity to kick them out soon, I expect a large out pouring of refugees from the UK.

  3. SPURWING PLOVER says:
    11 months ago

    Making life in the UK more difficult over a totally fake crisis to meet the impossible and irresponsible goals of Net Zero

  4. Mark Wild says:
    11 months ago

    and all the while these great thinkers stay silent about the countries that increase fossil fuel use, and hence CO2 emissions, annually. Just as well that there’s no problem with more atmospheric CO2.

  5. Steve Bunten says:
    11 months ago

    This is what happens when the Tories become squishy lefties instead of the party of Maggie Thatcher. The fact that they have played footsies with the Greens following a Net Zero fantasy that the average Brit hates. So now the Labour party will be running the country and will really step on the gas to destroying the British economy by accelerating the Net Zero folly.

  6. Dennis Sandberg says:
    11 months ago

    Interesting to see that the UK Labour Party is in lockstep with the delusional “less than wise” irresponsible economy destroying democrats here in the US. This can only end badly.

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