From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
h/t Doug Brodie
You just could not make this up!
The SNP’s delayed ferries have been hit by a new farce after it emerged that their special ‘green’ fuel must be imported 8,000 miles from Qatar then driven thousands more miles each year by road.
The vessels were designed with ‘dual-fuel’ engines which can run on liquefied natural gas (LNG), designed to cut emissions, as well as conventional diesel.
However, eight years after work began on the ferries Glen Sannox and Glen Rosa, the Scottish Government says there is no clear date for when LNG tanks, known as a bunkering facility, will ever be built here.
As a result, LNG must be imported in diesel-powered ships from Qatar to a terminal in England and then driven 450 miles to Scotland.
It is feared that will lead to emissions far in excess of savings generated by the supposedly environmentally friendly engines.
The complex dual-fuel design has been cited as one of the main reasons behind the shambolic delivery of the vessels for the route from Ardrossan, Ayrshire, to Arran.
When you get smacked in the head by reality you go looking for weasel words-
Peter van Onselen: Teal MP’s humiliating fossil fuel climbdown (msn.com)
Perfect. Don’t ever try to parody the stupidity of these people: what they dream up in all seriousness will far outdo anything you can dream up as a joke.
Diesel and LNG is a stupid choice! The fuels work in different ways, the ignition method is completely different. I am amazed it works at all, perhaps it doesn’t and that is the reason for overbudget and very late!