Net zero is a con
not just a little con, but a deceitful, cynical, mega con
The overall objective is good and something that the world badly needs. But the problems are the sacrifices the country must make to get there, its elongated time frame, its astronomical cost and the bogus arguments being used to brainwash us.
Why it is a con?
It is a con based on an illusion
Just because we are not directly emitting carbon from manufacturing wind turbines and solar panels in the UK, does not mean that they are not being made.
Yes! Our ingenuity is remarkable. We have outsourced it.
However, there are still millions of tons of carbon being emitted, but they are in other countries’ factories.
So, we keep our conscience clean in our green and pleasant land while we blacken the lands of others. Does it matter to us that the world still suffers?
It is also a consumer con
Milliband had told us repeatedly that we will all get £300 pounds off our energy bills. But we are not told when. And we are not told what is the base price on which the £300 pounds will be applied. Any fathead can raise a price and then offer a matching discount.
Recent geopolitical events have also made clear that this is a great boast but a small roast.
It is also a political con
If the UK had lots of spare cash it wouldn’t matter, but we don’t. Just look at the state of hospitals, roads, schools, the military, and many other problems:
We can’t afford to fix the homes that our soldiers live in
We can’t afford to replace the kit that was sent to Ukraine
We can’t afford other key bits of kit needed to defend ourselves
We can’t afford many of the things that society urgently requires
One of the key reasons why these are unaffordable is because of our bloated benefit system. As one of many examples, the ONS tells us that 53.3% of households receive more in government support than they contribute in taxes, but the Labour government can’t/won’t resolve this critical issue.
It is also a financial con
Why? Because we are not being told of the monstrous cost of net zero.
How much is at stake? This is what the leading institutes say:
1. Treasury £1 trillion pounds
2. CCC £1.5 trillion pounds
3. NESO £3 trillion pounds
If even the experts cannot agree now, imagine the clashes that will arise from wild differences on key costs, including renewables, heat pumps, home insulation, electric cars, financing, etc.
If they cannot come close to a consensus on such a critical national undertaking, what hope is there that expenses will be controlled? Another HS2 looms.
An additional problem is the NESO, which is responsible for the rebuilding of the grid and managing the supply and demand for energy.
They are at the receiving end of political incompetence which is shown by the mammoth and utterly pointless expenditure of having to turn off the wind farms. This cost the UK £1.46 billion pounds in 2025 and it happens because the energy they generate exceeds the capacity the grid. This is the result of imbalanced investment between wind farms vs new cables. And who decides on these investments-the politicians, most of whom have no business skills.
As a result of these costs, net zero will have a direct effect on our standard of living, not an upward but a downward effect. And who will be affected? Us gullible Brits, not just you and me, but because these expenses are so enormous they will cross generations. And thus they will also affect our children and grandchildren. You will be able to breath better air but they will be hungry.
It is also a green subsidy con
The UK’s renewable energy subsidies are projected to cost £11.8 billion this year, with overall annual green energy policy and legacy scheme costs calculated at up to £25.8 billion, including total household pass-through impacts (Source: industry analysts). This is close to half the defence budget.
Another revealing and disgraceful symptom of this problem is that at least 1.3 million UK families are spending more on energy bill green levies every week than they spend on fresh vegetables. (Source: MCS Foundation) What sort of government policies can create such a perverse outcome?
These subsidies are major contributors to the UK’s energy prices being uncompetitive internationally. What is a major consequence? Investors go elsewhere and UK jobs, industry and tax revenue suffer. And what is the result? Another negative hit to our standard of living.
And all this has been happening while Milliband has been swanning around the world spending billions every year on buying windmills, enforcing emission limits on auto-mobiles, promoting heat pumps, etc.
The safest place for him and his programme would have have been to be buried in one of his pet subsea carbon capture reservoirs, with a lifetime supply of bacon butties.
Fortunately for him with the change of Prime Minister he has escaped into a new job where he can jet the world and instead of burying his carbon emissions he can get his jet to spread them far and wide in the currently blue sky.
