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  It was very fashionable to be super-green several years ago..everybody was jumping on a rolling bandwagon. There were calls...by the Green Party among others... and hopelessly they are still calling for it, to put the cost of petrol up and up to keep cars and vehicles in general off the road. Can you image the fall-out costs to families everywhere, food bills soaring due to stratospheric logistical costs. It was just crazy easy populism without anyone at all highlighting the fallout from such policies.. The Green London Mayoral candidate was still calling for this recently.
  
  Green energy was the thing too..windfarms and so on. But these were all populist moves to win elections. Windfarms, cosy and cute that they might be in green terms, were never going to produce enough energy to satisfy demand. A few percentages of our needs only, I think some wag on TV mentioned at the most 5% of our energy needs.
  
  We have to...like it or not...rely on Nuclear Power or the lights will go out in the future. Its all very well wanting a nice pleasant land for our children to inherit but they wont thank you in years to come if they only have lights 3 days a week.
  
  Sadly according to Howards link above the costs of energy is going to increase anyway because of a series of cock-ups with the Coalition Government. Cock ups which were intended to make the world a green and cosy place. Now with rising prices, and thanks to Mr Cameron the winter fuel bills for pensioners coming down ..well its a right to-do so it is. Surely winter fuel bills should be going up to meet the extra charges.

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