Here's the scenario from the article that gets you 2000 pounds... In the most expensive scenario, a strong economic recovery with few green measures and no new nuclear power stations by 2020, competition would intensify for gas supplies. In that case, domestic bills would soar by 60 per cent to a peak of £1,972 a year in 2016, before falling.
A scenario where Gorish green techno- and infrastructural measures are eschewed, where strong economic recovery occurs and no nuclear power stations are built (and, seemingly against all recent technological developments, none of the newly discovered or available gas deposits are tapped)... and no resistance to imposing these costs on citizens, and assuring private energy profits, builds.
Surely, anti-nuclear plant protesters (all of whom are Birkenstock-and-patchuli-wearing eco-weenies of the worst variety [because there's no connection between civilian and military nuclear processes]) are those primarily responsible for thirty years of socially and ecologically disasterous and future-indifferent neoliberal energy AND the economic and infrastructural development policies that have shafted us so much.
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 2:13 PM, James Heartfield < Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> This is what happens when you let anti-power station protestors influence
> your energy policy, 2000 pounds sterling a year energy bills
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> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/1632000-annual-fuel-bills-loom-to-fund-new-power-stations-1800570.html
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> Thanks, Al Gore.
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