howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Brian Dixon
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if the report is right we go cold,if its wrong its a scare story and brutish gas will double its prices along with the other supplyers.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Rationing of fuel may be followed by rationing of food.
Britain doesn't have an enhanced agricultural policy, nor has the State stocked up on basic foods.
Today it's the gas, tomorrow it will be the petrol, and then it will be the food....
All we had was a Chancellor cutting spending, borrowing more money and printing tens of billions of pounds for the Bank of England to buy up government bonds.
Oh, and soon we may be running around without trousers too, as we don't even have a textile factory in Britain anymore.
And as all technological inventions are shipped off with the blueprints lock, stock and barrel to China, we may soon be using our cupped hands to "tele-phone" from one end of the street to the other.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Nope it's all because of the three main parties environmental policies.
Without the green agenda this wouldn't have happened.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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a major undersea pipeline shut down yesterday not helping matters.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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You're right there Howard but at best We only have ten days gas storage at any one time. The politicos consider gas a fossil fuel and therefore evil and expect windfarms and other "renewables" to take up the slack.
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Two coal plants generating electricity have just been shut down, one in Scotland, one in England, due to becoming out of date and no longer functional.
Gas supplies from Qatar cannot reach Britain before at least 10 days or 2 weeks.
Colder than usual weather in Southern Europe prevents any surplus imported gas there being sent on to the UK.
Norway is shutting down some gas supply facilities for maintenance.
The Government's been caught OK edited
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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nah thats armaggedon alex.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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amazing that such a simple thing like a sensible energy policy can wreak havoc to a country. two days ago the department of energy and climate change assured us they had everything under control!!
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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howard,its called lip service,they tell you one thing and mean another.and if people the goverment bullcrap then they must be as silly as h,m goverment thinks they are.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Don't worry it's approaching Earth hour, hat special moment when eco- loons dim their lights to the same level as their intellect!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-21912785
As any sensible person knows only a moron still believes in global warming but that message hasn't got through to the government which is why gas supplies are threatened. I'll be doing my bit by putting my handkerchief in on a boil wash and filling the kettle and pouring the boiling water on all those layers of global warming that have built up around my front gate now that it's starting to freeze over.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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yes philip many pepole have had there lights turnd out for them by the wheather conditions.and thats many thousands.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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agree 100% with mr booker the whole situation could not have been dreamed up.
furthermore if it was true that climate change was man made any effort from us would have negligible effect anyway with the vast majority of emissions come from china, india and other emerging economies.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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and not forgetting the usa,and the use of gas guzzeling cars.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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I think you're missing the point at many different levels, Brian.
The worst of it is, Howard, is the ignorance there is about this issue. Politicians of all parties, especially the left and liberals have their policies on, say, welfare carved onto their foreheads so that they can tow the party line. However, when it comes to the really important stuff they have not a clue.
As I've pointed out too many times this is the number one issue facing the UK. The number one.
Without a source of reliable and fairly priced energy the UK will shut down. Every business, every individual will be affected. Even if the power goes down for a couple of hours the economic damage done would be colossal not only running into billions but the affect on confidence from outside as will as inside Britain doesn't bear thinking about.
As it stands power cuts won't last a couple of hours but for much longer.
In terms of gas supply trust me when I say that people will die in their thousands.
As the article explained, the new tax (carbon price floor) kicks in on April 1st.
As a result of this odious tax many elderly and other vulnerable people will die as a result.
It's an absolute scandal.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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philip,there is lots of ilrelavent points being missed,mostly scaremogering ones,along with bull crap,hot air and someone bouncing up and down with a megaphone.all hot air and gas which could be piped and used to help climate change,at a reasonable price.
and we all know that april the 1st is all fools day.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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and there point is philip.