I TOLD JULIA HARTLEY BREWER THAT “YOUR ARGUMENT IS FROM THE 1960’S !
YOU WANT TO KEEP US ADDICTED TO AN OIL ECONOMY THAT THREATENS BRITAIN’S NATIONAL SECURITY!”
As director of the Climate Media Coalition, I was invited onto Talk TV’s Jullia Hartley Brewer’s show to discuss Ed Miliband’s call for a faster clean energy transition in light of the Israeli war on the Iran oil crisis.
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Hartley Brewer hilariously claimed, “Ed Miliband is taking us back to the caves with solar and wind”.
Brewer pointed out that the Renewables UK spokesperson said the fossil fuel price crisis indicated we should drill more.
I replied, pointing out that this spokesperson was a former Shell lobbyist and the huge oil corporation Statoil/Equinor is on her board in Britain.
I said Britain is being hammered again with an oil crisis and the urgent need to wean us off the addiction to oil is the lesson of these regular Israeli oil price crises.
Brewer intervened to say the lesson rather is we should do more oil drilling.
But I pointed out that the United States (and Norway) are self-sufficient in oil, but their drivers are still being hammered at the gas station as their oil costs also soar.
It is the oil corporations that profiteer hugely, and consumers pay the punitive prices in these crises, no matter whether the oil is drilled domestically or abroad.
I then stated that the cost to the Uk economy of the last oil crisis, caused by Russia, according to the UK’s Climate Change Committee was £100 billion.
£70 billion was the cost for taxpayers subsidising fossil fuels for consumers and £30 billion was the cost to the wider economy .
The Climate Change Committee says the cost of the clean energy transition investment would be £100 billion by 2050, i.e., the cost of just one Israeli oil price crisis!
But instead of the money being squandered subsidising burning fossil fuels. The money is instead invested in renewables that give free energy for decades and free us from oil market shocks.
I gently told Brewer that her argument is from the 1960s. She wants to keep us addicted to an oil economy that threatens Britain’s national security.
This is a fuel that has hammered us every 10 years with repeated oil crises in the Middle East.
North Sea oil peaked in 1989. It is an old mature field that now produces only expensive oil and gas.
It is a national disgrace that 1.5 million rural households in Britain are still dependent on oil 50 years after the first Israeli oil crisis.
These families are being hammered again because we have not switched them to electric heating.
I finished by saying “ I do not personally worry about an oil crisis because my home electricity is free due to the solar and battery system I have invested in. For 10.5 months it is also free at night due to my battery. I want that for every household in the UK.”
We need an inflation-proof clean energy system.
And that is what Ed Miliband is advocating for. (On renewables and storage, that is, not on his mad nuclear and carbon storage Tory proposals, which are riven with inflation and technical impossibilities!!).
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Donnachadh x
