On Oct 10, 2009, at 2:13 PM, James Heartfield wrote:
> This is what happens when you let anti-power station protestors
> influence your energy policy, 2000 pounds sterling a year energy bills
> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/1632000-annual-fuel-bills-loom-to-fund-new-power-stations-1800570.html
>
> Thanks, Al Gore.
"Regulator Ofgem said that bills would have to rise by between 14 and 60 per cent over the next 10 years to fund up to £200bn of new investment."
The UK government has this year and last thrown much more than that £200bn at the giant banks. Al Gore very little to do with that (and I'm not letting him off the hook for the Glass-Steagall repeal in the US). But why blame ecologists, or anyone at all, for electricity costs rising to their real value (taking account of the external diseconomies of generating electricity by polluting fossil fuel and grossly subsidized nuclear plants)?
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos