Essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Griff, strativarius – Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Small Government Right Wing Hope of the UK Conservatives, talking to the Guardian like a big government left wing green.
I’m maligned as a ‘green energy sceptic’. I’m not. Dear Guardian reader, here’s what I think
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Thu 13 Oct 2022 16.00 AEDTCritics suggest our growth agenda conflicts with the need to achieve net zero. They couldn’t be more wrong
t is always intriguing to see my own views through the lens of a newspaper refracted away from what I think. Although I am no admirer of Extinction Rebellion, I can assure Guardian readers that I am not a “green energy sceptic”. I am in favour of intelligent net zero in which green energy will play the biggest role.
I’m proud to belong to a country that has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 40% since 1990, while growing the economy by over 70% in that time.
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Getting the British people on board with net zero requires us to demonstrate that we can go green in a way that makes them better off, not worse off, that drives growth instead of hindering it and that stimulates investment and innovation rather than driving traditional industries to the brink of ruin. The effect we have had on energy-intensive industries increases carbon emissions as we import more from abroad while destroying high-paid jobs in the United Kingdom.
There are ways to make this work which the country is adopting. Consider the Contracts for Difference scheme. This programme has grown to support a bountiful range of renewable energy sources, from onshore wind to offshore, solar power to tidal and from remote island wind to energy production from waste – all while bringing down costs and growing the economy. The drive to produce up to 50GW of offshore wind by 2030 means that this sector alone should grow to support 90,000 jobs.
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That is why our recently announced growth plan will accelerate the delivery of major infrastructure projects including onshore and offshore windfarms. This plan will also boost the UK’s nascent hydrogen industry, which will work in harmony with the renewables and gas sectors alike.
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We are exploring options to support low-cost finance to help householders with the upfront costs of solar installation, permitted development rights to support deployment of more small-scale solar in commercial settings and designing performance standards to further encourage renewables, including solar PV, in new homes and buildings.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/13/green-energy-guardian-reader-growth-net-zero-liz-truss-jacob-rees-mogg
Order Order has suggested Rees-Mogg may have more than an intellectual interest in promoting green energy – According to Order Order, Mogg’s mum is trying to have a large solar farm approved on their farm land, which would require overturning Prime Minister Liz Truss’ pushback against using farmland for solar projects.
The only evidence I have for this alleged Rees-Mogg conflict of interest is the stories in Order Order, so we should definitely seek a little more corroboration. But if Order Order’s claims about Rees-Mogg’s mum are true, frankly I’m disgusted.
Rees-Mogg has some questions to answer, both about his alleged family interest in covering farmland with solar panels, and his apparent backflip from small government advocacy, to supporting a firehose expenditure of taxpayer’s money on useless green energy.
If solar was the cheaper option, and had any potential to improve the lives of ordinary people, it wouldn’t need government subsidies, market distorting solar quotas, and government provided cheap financing to proceed. Private backers would be falling over each other to provide capital, without any intervention from the government.
Rees Mogg’s claims that green energy has any potential to improve the lives of ordinary people in my opinion are absurd. His lavish offer of government money backed cheap finance to expand the green blight, in my opinion blatantly contradicts his carefully cultivated reputation as a low tax small government conservative.
From the article: “I am in favour of intelligent net zero in which green energy will play the biggest role.”
Mr. Jacob Rees-Mogg is under the illusion that windmills and solar can power all of society.
The places where “Green” energy is making the most inroads is where the electrical grids are most at risk. When windmills and solar make up the “biggest role” we can expect frequent, periodic electrical blackouts, when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine. I don’t believe windmills and solar will ever have the biggest role in our electrical grids. I don’t think Mr. Jacob Rees-Mogg has a firm grasp of the situation. Too bad for Britain.
JRM has a firm grasp of what is to his benefit. Thus he moved his investment firm to Dublin so that it would not be compromised by the Brexit that the Government he was part of was promoting.
For many, Rees-Mogg was the last conservative in the Conservative Party. Then along came Brexit and he joined the ultra Brexit idiots who believed the UK should not have any trade deals with the EU and trade on WTO rules alone. To support this, they lied that this was a common state that included the USA and China. But this was lying by omission and calling a ‘trade deal’ only that which was registered with the WTO. However, looking at the EU information on trade agreements, both countries were party to over 50 agreements that facilitated trade with the EU. At that point I realised he was a moron and his stupidity caused damage to the UK economy by closing off the only sensible exit strategy from the EU which was to remain a member of the EEA while then sorting out a more permanent arrangement with the EU.
“I am in favour of intelligent net zero in which green energy will play the biggest role.”
Where is the oxymoron ? 😀
Or better name it a contradiction in itself ? 😀
There is no such thing as conservatism as long as gutting energy security is a cornerstone of every political platform.
This green blob is a religion. If you don’t bend a knee to it, you don’t survive in politics, anywhere. Just like Christianity was the litmus test in the past.
But we have, in the US, an established separation of church and state. And it’s the custom in Europe as well. So Western nations thrived despite Christianity for a long, long time. Theocracies, like they have in the Middle East, regressed.
However, there is no separation between the green blob and state. Therefore, we will regress to the level of the theocracies unless we manage to convince politicians that it’s not in their interests to be addled by this religion.
Given the complete indoctrination of today’s youth, that’s not going to happen. So we had better figure out what to do when the lights go out for good. Since I’m not a prepper, I just hope I’m not around to see it. However, it seems likely I will.