Sure I remember some years back that somebody tried to make beer-flavoured iced lollies? I suppose the alcohol would act as an anti-freeze? You can get liquor-flavoured ice cream though.
It was a rare occasion this morning when some snail mail came through the letterbox. It was something from a stock broker telling me their fees are going up in a month. Sending it snail mail was a waste of money when they sent me the same online. I saw the postman disappearing out of the street with nothing else apparently to deliver but I also saw what appeared to be some letters in the gutter. So I went outside to investigate. The envelopes looked like bank statements addressed to the couple that live across the street from me, so I put them through their letterbox. Just as well it was not raining or they would have been soaked. So somebody can surely explain to me why these incompetent postal workers were out on strike demanding a huge pay rise last year. Walking around with a bag of letters and putting them through the right doors is hardly rocket science but at least one seems incapable of doing it. Sure to be a Labour voter round here.
Clearly “dave lawrence” is as thick as two short planks. He did not even bother to fact check that rubbish being tweeted by London Economic. Even thicko Labour MPs have been re-tweeting it. For “Sunak’s family firm” read “the firm founded by Sunak’s father-in-law”. Infosys signed a deal to provide IT services to BP back in May – that was widely reported at the time. There is nothing controversial about two companies doing business. These people just hate the fact that Sunak’s wife owns loads of shares in her father’s company so the success of that business makes her wealthier. Sunak has announced lots of new licenses for oil and gas exploration in the North Sea, which Dame Kelly Stormer opposes because he is in the thrall of the eco-warrior minority. Getting our own oil and gas gives us better energy security instead of importing it. Cretin Stormer claims that he favours energy security but does not want anything but massively subsidised renewables that will leave us with no energy for periods of time. Really we need to glue Just Stop Oil middle class anarchists, the Labour leader and Chris Packham to the M1 and then just drive an old coal-fired steamroller over them.
Covid rule-breaking former SNP MP Margaret Ferrier has lost her seat triggering a by-election after more than 10 percent of constituents signed a recall petition. https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1797528/Margaret-Ferrier-SNP-byelection-Rutherglen-recall
I don't pretend to know anything about this, but what I have seen is the licenses that are being issued will make very little difference in the grander scale of things, that it raises the question is it really worth the trouble and the aggro that it's going to cause. So it leads me to ask, are there any figures to show what cost difference it will make to consumers, with and without the licenses ie with and without North sea oil. I did see Chris Packham going on a bit, but considering he's worth as estimated £4M, he like many MP's have no knowledge of fuel poverty or whatever you want to call it. Although I accept his climate intentions are well meant but it's easy to be well intended when you can afford stuff.
Total moron from ‘Toffeeland’ has no idea about how the EU controls the levels of taxation that member states are allowed to charge. Boris and Rishi could have removed VAT from our fuel bills now that we are not in the EU but failed to do so. With the Oirish and Luxembourg benefitting from ridiculously low levels of corporation tax, the EU wants to impose a minimum level to stop everyone moving their business headquarters to those two domains to avoid paying higher tax elsewhere.
It is not going to make any cost difference extracting our own oil and gas because the price of these commodities is global. But surely it is better to get our own rather than import it from the Middle East or the USA? It does not have to be transported very far and we are not dependent on various despots like the Europeans. The tree huggers seem to think that we can just switch off all oil and gas immediately but they live in a fantasy world. They call the fantasy that politicians are lying about “Net Zero” for a good reason – the first word tells us that we will still be destroying the planet but we will be conning everyone by offsetting the damage against commitments to renewables. Those dates that they have signed agreements about at the IPCC – 2030 and 2050 – are meaningless. The Swedish were the first to come up with a Net Zero commitment for 2045 but they have already dropped it now that people are starting to see what it would cost them to do it. China has no intention of cutting back on fossil fuels soon so why do the tree huggers not go there to protest? I think we know...
In regards to your first paragraph, I'm not sure that I agree, albeit I take your point - I just got the impression that we are pissing off a lot of people for very little return. Don't get me wrong, I would rather have our own oil, if it is in sufficient quantity and makes susbtantial difference in cost or being green, but I'm struggling to see the benefits other than it's our own oil. I'm British thru and thru and all for buying British, but I get the impression that North sea oil no longer brings the benefits it use to. Like I say though, I don't know and would merely concede because of my lack of knowledge regarding it.
Well for an impartial view, go with what Greg Hands said a couple of years ago - it's not our gas and oil, we don't get it any cheaper than from anywhere else, and with all the tax breaks and subsidies we give to these companies, the Exchequer benefits little as well. But follow the money - see who donates to the Tory Party and Tufton St lobby groups, and who is actually coining it in. It certainly isn't the consumer.
Like I say, I honestly couldn't see the benefits, and the marginal difference it was making weren't much more on a chart than hair's breadth. I always think what's left of our oil....or Scotland's oil as Aldo would no doubt remind me, and the coal we have, leave it for the future generations if it's ever required in an emergency situation. Afterall people are still buying Toyota's (soz couldn't resist that Archers) so they can quite clearly afford their fuel bills
