I do not get the car out much these days, only for a few long journeys; but even I have noticed how the price of petrol has rocketed as oil supplies have dwindled. When my next gas/electric bill arrives that will have rocketed too as imported gas supplies dwindle thanks to Vladimir Putin choking off supply to Europe for geo political reasons.
So given those threats to our energy supplies it might seem reasonable to try and insure ourselves by securing domestic supplies as when the sun does not shine and the wind does not blow, renewables are nothing.
Crazed Leftie Nicola Sturgeon has got into bed with the hard Left Greens for political reasons but she now joins in their cries of stop producing oil and gas immediately. It is an economically suicidal policy – home territory for the brain dead tree huggers – that it is hard to understand any credible national leader adopting. So Net Zero (Brains, Carbon and Jobs) Sturgeon has called for the Cambo field near Shetland to go undeveloped.
It might have been expected that the government at Westminster would see how short sighted the Scottish First Minister was being, but even in Whitehall there appears to be no support for fossil fuels under some delusion that we can simply stop using them tomorrow. In the name of Climate Change virtue signalling, Shell have walked away from their 30 per cent stake in the Cambo field leaving it unviable for their junior partner; and the nation is now facing being held to ransom by Putin just to keep the lights on this winter.