I have long argued the UK ‘s net zero policies are too dear, are losing us our industry and jobs, are losing us tax revenues and increase world CO 2. The last argument cuts through with more of the politicians and officials than the prosperity, tax and job arguments. It helped me and a few others persuade the last government to allow further exploration wells in the UK and development of new oil and gas fields. Mr Miliband has imposed a complete ban. It got the last government to delay banning new petrol and diesel cars, only for Mr Miliband to speed up the ban.
I also argued in a couple of short books that the twin drivers of the planned electrical revolution for consumers were not popular and would not deliver the change the net zero advocates wanted. Heat pumps are too dear, disruptive to install where larger radiators and more insulation are needed and can be dearer to run than gas boilers. Battery cars are dear, often lack range, can be difficult to recharge on long journeys and will gradually lose subsidies as some more people adopt them.
The latest work suggests a £4.5 tn cost to the planned transition just in the UK. I used a figure of $275 tn for the world plan in my “The $275 trillion Green Revolution” to show a very rough magnitude of the task, which appeared in various articles based on a McKinsey report. It might well cost more to replace all those coal and gas power stations, most petrol and diesel vehicles and all that fossil fuel space heating.
Now the US has renounced net zero policy, China believes in it for others but keeps plenty of fossil fuel use herself, and India says net zero has to come later, the UK and EU remain locked together with a disastrous dear energy policy. They then wonder as they blunder why they lose jobs, close factories and hardly grow. Net Zero policy is both self defeating and very destructive of prosperity.
January 14, 2026
Given the suicidal policies of Starmer’s Gang, both economically and culturally, it is hard to believe Russia is a serious threat. Why would any country risk the lives of their own people to attack a country alrady committing suicide? He wouldn’t and in any case UK has nothing that he wants. The Chinese are more subtle than Putin. They still follow Sun Tzu’s Art of War emphasising strategy, deception, and knowing yourself and your enemy, especially that the greatest victory is winning without fighting, achieved through careful planning, exploiting weaknesses, and appearing weak when strong. The Tories fell for it and so do Starmer’s Gang.
January 14, 2026
Correct but you say “I have long argued the UK ‘s net zero policies are too dear” well yes but any Net Zero cost to the tax payer, subsidies, red tape or policies would be too much as it conveys no benefit at all quite the reverse. Many £trillions of cost zero benefit.
Where renewables works and makes sense without subsidy or rigged markets fine. The idea we should have a war on CO2 the gas of life, plant, tree and crop food is insane. Even when we do Miliband’s and May’s mad policies just exports its production and the jobs with it. Killing the economy, industry, jobs and out defence systems.
January 14, 2026
The mike Graham show yesterday Tues 13th showed what a mistake Reform have made with the pompous and wrong headed Zahawi. The man still does not even seem to recognise that his Covid Vaccine Programme as Vaccine Tzar was a disaster. The fastest vaccine roll out he says. But is was a programme that clearly did net harm Zahawi look at the stats mate. That was a stupid question he say a perfectly sensible question. About 7.20 then at 8.45 the excellent Dr Clair Craig.
The Covid vaccines did not prevent Covid infections, hospitalisations or deaths and did cause huge vaccine injuries. See her excellent book “Spiked – A Shot in the Dark”.
The sensible view is not pro-vax or anti-vax some vaccine do net good and some net harm I like the former and hate the latter even if it was the fastest roll out Zahawi. Covid vaccines were heavily in the net harm section. The government should release the honest figure and stop hiding the truth which is doing even more harm.
January 14, 2026
Good morning.
Someone somewhere is making a ton of money out of this SCAM. And you would think that the political class would have smelled a rat, much like the rest of us, and steered well clear. But no, they have not.
As always, I tend to look away from the obvious and look into the less obvious when it comes to matters our political class can deal with (another being MASS IMMIGRATION) but refuse to do so. I mean, one cannot believe that they are all that stupid, naïve, ideologically wedded, or just plain corrupt. This the majority of European (and Western) countries, political parties, politicians, media, academia and just about everything else.
There has to be more ?
January 14, 2026
£4.5 trillion (UK) circa £150k per household is probably still an underestimate. EVs, more “renewable” wind and solar and back up, carbon capture, vast grid capacity increases, huge insulation increases needed, heat pumps for all homes, even this does not cover the additional subsequent damage done to jobs, industry, the economy, our defence systems caused by the higher energy costs and intermittency! Another doom loop insanity!
January 14, 2026
The world will of course not go for net zero only idiotic governments like the UKs will do so rendering them uncompetitive due to expensive energy the costs. This inability to compete will cause vast further costs above the £4.5 trillion. It will not even reduce CO2 worldwide just export it and kill the UK economy!
January 14, 2026
Net zero crap is going to kill off my town of Scunthorpe when they get rid of the blast furnace and replace it with a arch furnace, but then this as been happening for decades all over the U.K. to get rid of our heavy industry and blame it on some sort of climatic change
January 14, 2026
Net Zero can only be achieved by tyrannical governance: by banning products which people want to buy and trying to force them to buy more expensive, less efficient and inconvenient, ones. And then rationing energy to avoid blackouts.
The Government seems to be quietly dropping the (nonsense) argument about “saving the planet” and has morphed to the “insulating ourselves from despotic oil and gas producing regimes” when we can look across the North Sea to Norway and see a perfectly acceptable, democratic country (aligned, but not in, their beloved EU) sensibly exploiting the reserves in the same sea we were – until the Eco Extremists banned it.
Whole industries and hundreds of thousands of decent jobs have been destroyed by the lunacy, with more teetering on the edge.
It’s a SCAM and we simply can’t afford it.